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RandySF

(58,799 posts)
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 12:19 AM Jan 2012

Palin compares the Romney campaign to Stalin, Alinsky.

"What we saw with this ridiculous opposition dump on Newt was nothing short of Stalin-esque rewriting of history. It was Alinsky tactics at their worst."

-- Sarah Palin, writing on Facebook, defending Newt Gingrich against attacks made by Mitt Romney.


http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/01/28/quote_of_the_day.html

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gateley

(62,683 posts)
1. I'd bet money Palin had never heard of Saul Alinsky before Gingrich started tossing his
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 12:21 AM
Jan 2012

name around.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,683 posts)
2. I'd bet that ninny never even heard of Stalin
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 12:28 AM
Jan 2012

until a couple of years ago.

I am looking forward to the day when the musings of Sarah Palin are not reported by anyone, anywhere.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
8. amd I will bet she still knows nothing about him but his name now
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 01:12 AM
Jan 2012

BUT THE real powers that be on the RIGHT do know more than his name..............

Adam Brandon, a spokesman for the conservative non-profit organization FreedomWorks, which is one of several groups involved in organizing Tea Party protests, says the group gives Alinsky's Rules for Radicals to its top leadership members. A shortened guide called Rules for Patriots is distributed to its entire network. In a January 2012 story that appeared in The Wall Street Journal, citing the organization's tactic of sending activists to town-hall meetings, Brandon explained, "his tactics when it comes to grass-roots organizing are incredibly effective." Former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey also gives copies of Alinsky's book Rules for Radicals to Tea Party leaders
Of course you will never hear about that from Newtie or Barbie!!!
nope
never will

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
3. I doubt if she would know Saul Alinsky if he bit her on the ass
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 12:29 AM
Jan 2012

Which would be very difficult for him at this point.

And I'm almost positive she knows nothing of his writing or activities. And like most of the ignorami who are so fond of bandying his name about, she is unaware that he was strongly opposed to communism and socialism. In fact he was skeptical of any ideology.

Orangepeel

(13,933 posts)
6. Uh, oh. She must have gotten the pages of the talking points Newt sent her mixed up
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 12:56 AM
Jan 2012

She was supposed to like Obama with Alinski. Newt only goes as far as Teddy Kennedy when linking Romney to left wing bogeymen.

no_hypocrisy

(46,092 posts)
9. Eggs in one basket with Newt.
Sun Jan 29, 2012, 08:29 AM
Jan 2012

Palin wouldn't have posted if Romney also had said on the record that she would have been part of his administration.

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