Rules for Republicans

We've all heard of the Alinsky playbook, Rules for Radicals.  If you haven't read and understood it, go do so.  You'll have a whole new understanding of Leftist motivations and tactics.

Paul Jacobsen, at the American Thinker, has come up with our answer to Alinsky: 

Rules for Republicans

• 1. The era of liberalism is over.
  Today there are no liberals in power; there are only radical leftists. They are the enemy, not the opposition. Their ideology is not simply wrong; it is evil.
• 2. It is impossible to be too cynical about the intentions, motives, and truthfulness of radical leftists.
  They will always exceed our most horrifying expectations.
• 3. Radical leftists are continually seeking to destroy America's historic foundations, particularly our Constitution.
  Their goal is to rebuild upon the rubble according to their own evil vision and to gratify their insatiable lust for tyrannical power.
• 4. Radical leftists are continually seeking to infiltrate and undermine American institutions.
  They are especially attracted to institutions where there are unearned wealth, sinecures, and ambiguous standards of accomplishment.
• 5. Our people must always be seeking to restore America's tested, historic, foundational principles and to guard and protect our Constitution and our cherished institutions.
• 6. Civility must never trump truthfulness.
  Civility is a highly commendable virtue; truthfulness is vastly more commendable.
• 7. Ideology must never trump truthfulness.
  We Republicans need to constantly examine our own ideological principles to make sure they are, first and foremost, true. Then we must proclaim them boldly and straightforwardly.
• 8. Never try to out-compassion a bleeding-heart radical leftist.
  Conservatism is the most compassionate -- and most truthful -- political philosophy there is. Radical leftism, by contrast, is based on false promises intended not to better the lives of anyone, but to recruit gullible, ignorant people as "useful idiots."
• 9. Challenge radical leftists to live up to their own publicly proclaimed ethical principles.
  They never do. They just fake it. (Cf. Alinsky Rule #4: "Make the enemy live up to their [sic] own book of rules.")
• 10. Refuse to use the favorite language of the radical left.
  Their language is always intended to spread lies and propaganda and to create confusion, fear, and retreat, not to convey truthful information.
• 11. The language our people use should boldly convey real information accurately, precisely, and above all, truthfully.
• 12. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
  This is Alinsky Rule #5, word for word, but we Republicans have a special advantage in applying it to radical leftists because ridicule or satire, to be really effective, must be rooted in truth. That's why leftist ridicule flops; it's usually based on lies.
• 13. Attempting to reason with intractable, hardcore radical leftists will always end in futility.
  Such people are incorrigibly anti-rational, so it is impossible to establish an authentic interlocutory interface with them. The only realistic way to engage them is to crush them politically, using any and all truthful and lawful tactics.

Go forth and read the whole thing.  It's a very powerful piece, and a great list of tactics we need to put into practice.