I am tired of these Communistic Wingers.

What's the significance of Sept. 12?

And isn't it sort of embarassing that he basically admitted that wing nut rallies aren't all that fun?

Check out their site.

http://912dc.org/

Look at some of the co-sponsers.

Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

FreeRepublic

The Club for Growth

Should be quite the crowd.

Oh woe is the poor downtrodden oppressed unwashed masses of capitalists not wanting to pay their fair share. We must unite in solidarity so they can continue to have their offshore tax havens!!!

First tea bagging, now fisting. These right wing freaks are hardcore.

Clever

But I am not fooled. It's all part of the Socialist Obama's plot to establish the Caliphate.

Even the teabaggers are pawns in his nefarious game

the comment about teabaggers reading Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals" and being avid students of the political left," causes this thought to occur...and this thought has occurred more than once in the past few weeks as i watch the radicalization of the republican party, or it's right wing anyway...

i'm not sure you want to emulate the radical left... some would say, after a certain point, the radicalization of the left destroyed the effectiveness of the left for years. ...whatever history says, and this is a dilemma every advocacy group faces, but i can say personally, when you get to a point that you become fanatical about anything, ANYTHING... people leave. people leave fast, through any available exit... not because they aren't as you perceive, 'pure' enough, committed enough or, outraged enough, it's because you have become an insufferable, obsessed, maniac.
it doesn't matter who you are or what side you are on or what your issue is or what party you belong to.
mabe you will surround your self with an ever shringking group of fanatics, but the road leads to your own ruin and decreases your effectiveness exponentially. take it from a lefty. so yah, read the book, take up the logo, have fun, feel the power. (rolling eyes)

I wonder what happened to "better dead than red?"

I honestly do think my Tea Bagger logo is tons better.

Sad. I don't think many people have read "Rules for Radicals" or they would have understood the reference. One of the 14 rules is that your people have to have fun at your events, otherwise the movement will lose steam.

Seriously, I get the sense that few people have read Alinsky and thus few understand what he was about. Some tend to paint him with the same brush as Abbie Hoffman or the Weathermen -- that is lumping him in with other 60s radicals that we have vaguely heard about.

But what he did, and what his basic message was about, are as applicable to today as it was back then. He was a creative pragmatist, who tried to find ways to incrementally improve the system. He was tactically oriented, as his book demonstrates. He was forward thinking -- one of his rules is that you have to always refresh your tactics because the other side is always adapting.

He was non-idealistic -- one of his rules was that "People do the right things for the wrong reasons" -- meaning, don't get hung up on whether your opposition actually buys into the principle of equal rights, the key thing is to get them to grant the concessions you want. Incremental progress. (The particular example he used for this one was having black people picket the house of white slum lords in the 1960s. The slum lords were more likely to give in to their demands due to pressure from their white neighbors who were alarmed at the sight of groups of black picketers, not because they agreed with what the protesters were protesting.)

The idea of having fun was one of his key tenets. Indeed, there is great humor throughout the book. One of the best examples is the proposed "shit-in" at O'Hare, in which the protesters would occupy all the stalls (then all pay-toilets) for an entire day, legally preventing passengers from using the toilets. (This was an illustration of his rule "The threat of an action is usually worse than the action itself", and in this case the Daley authorities they were fighting with begged them to come back to the negotiating table instead of conducting the shit-in.)

Ironically, it was the religious right that learned more from Alinsky starting with the Moral Majority in the late 1970s and continuing through the 80s. They usually disguised his teachings as their own, but the principles are the same.

So, what this teabagger is saying is that he's employing Alinsky tactics in a creative way to energize his movement. Frankly, this is the first sensible thing I've heard from that movement since they began.