Joe Doakes from Como Park sends one of his timeliest and, dare I say, brilliant emails:<\/p>\n
Several Conservative commentators have made the same mistake recently.\u00a0 They point to Democrat excesses and claim Republicans are now free to use harsher tactics because \u201cthe rules have changed.\u201d\u00a0 No, they haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Alinsky says: \u201cMake the enemy live up to its own book of rules.\u201d\u00a0 Liberals do that when they accuse Conservatives of sexual assault, drunkenness, theft, animal abuse.\u00a0 Those behaviors are against Conservatives values, against our rules, which makes Conservatives guilty of hypocrisy when we fail to follow our own rules.\u00a0 Sarah Palin promoting family values while her own daughter had a baby out of wedlock was a perfect target for this sort of Liberal attack.<\/p>\n
Conservatives generally fail when trying to do the same to Liberals because the whole point of being a Liberal is to reject the old rules, to tear down the old institutions, to defy the old ways of living.\u00a0 It does no good to accuse Bill Clinton of being a womanizer because that\u2019s not against the rules in Liberal circles, as shown by the behavior of Liberals from Kennedy to Weinstein.\u00a0 The only time we\u2019ve had much success making Liberals play by their own rules was getting Al Franken out of the Senate by forcing Liberals to apply their \u201cMeToo\u201d campaign against him, a fortuitous albeit unintended consequence of their attacks on President Trump.<\/p>\n
But notice that Liberals won\u2019t force Keith Ellison out of the race.\u00a0 The \u201cbelieve all women\u201d rule is not as high in their victimology hierarchy as \u201cprotect Blacks from the consequences of their actions\u201d and nowhere near as trendy as \u201cFirst Muslim [fill in the blank].\u201d\u00a0 Liberals can\u2019t be accused of hypocrisy for protecting Black Muslim Keith Ellison from the consequences of his actions and promoting him despite his behavior because doing so IS one of their rules.<\/p>\n
Similarly, the fact that Liberals encourage violence against Conservatives does not mean Conservatives can encourage violence against Liberals.\u00a0 The\u00a0 first is perfectly consistent with the Liberal rule \u201cthe ends justify the means.\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s not a change we Conservatives can embrace while remaining true to our core values.<\/p>\n
The rules haven\u2019t changed.\u00a0 The two sides are playing by different rules.\u00a0 Probably always have been, we just didn\u2019t mind so much in the past.<\/p>\n
Now, that\u2019s not to say Conservatives must keep playing by our traditional rules.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s time the rules DID change, on our side.\u00a0 Maybe it\u2019s time to take the gloves off and do a little brawling of our own.\u00a0 It could be the Arne Carlson, Dave Durenberger style of \u201cConservative\u201d was better suited for a Hubert Humphrey era and not so well suited for a Barak Obama, Keith Ellison, Ilhan Omar era.\u00a0 I\u2019m perfectly willing to adapt tactics suitable to the times.\u00a0 But not because of same false moral equivalence that doing so is justified by the other side\u2019s changes, only because our new tactics make sense for us.<\/p>\n
Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Watching a group of anti-communist Cubanos in Miami send Nancy Pelosi running from a restaurant (the way mobs of howling snowflake liberal jackals have been doing with Republicans in recent weeks), I felt uneasy, but couldn’t quite put my finger on it; it wasn’t just a matter of “taking the high road”, because high roads mean nothing to Big Left or the machine it controls.<\/p>\n
But Joe is dead on – even moreso than usual.\u00a0 This plays into their hands.\u00a0 \u00a0You can’t win a morality play against an enemy that recognizes no morals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Doakes from Como Park sends one of his timeliest and, dare I say, brilliant emails: Several Conservative commentators have made the same mistake recently.\u00a0 They point to Democrat excesses and claim Republicans are now free to use harsher tactics because \u201cthe rules have changed.\u201d\u00a0 No, they haven\u2019t. Alinsky says: \u201cMake the enemy live up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[403],"class_list":["post-68314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-second-civil-war","tag-ilhan-omar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68315,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68314\/revisions\/68315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}