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" Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer. "
White
Target
Rules
" And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred. "
Hatred
Anger
Think
" And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air. "
Air
Even
Jealous
" As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. "
Vote
People
Education
" At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world. "
Dealing
Different
Two
" But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about. "
Look
Like
Own
" Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally. "
Serious
Face
Clown
" Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. "
Therapy
Prepare
War
" Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates. In 2010 and '12, we spent over $30 million for Senate candidates who were Tea Party candidates. We spent almost $20 million for House candidates who were Tea Party candidates. "
House
Tea
Over
" 'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. "
Constitution
Empathy
View
" For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush. "
Person
Who
Politics
" Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals. "
Said
Me
Moment
" I believe in traditional marriage. "
Believe
I Believe
Marriage
" If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is. "
Know
Who
Want
" If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek. "
People
Look
Find
" If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. "
Him
You
Want
" I hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things. "
People
Sound
Right
" I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes. "
Insult
Become
Mud
" I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot. "
People
Crazy
Politics
" I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years. "
Grateful
Know
You
" I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way. "
You
Politics
Political
" I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence. "
You
Morning
New York
" In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect. "
Different
You
Got
" In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision. "
Regret
Decision
Hands
" I supported Pat Toomey when he ran in 2010. I gave him money in September of 2009 because I wanted him to be the U.S. senator. I personally contributed my own money. "
My Own
Money
September
" I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual. "
Individual
You
Think
" I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically. "
Think
Patriot
Like
" I think wealthy conservatives are busy investing in profit and job creation and enterprise, and wealthy liberals, many of them either from the media industry themselves or from - they recognize the value of communications and are more ready to put money into a less profitable enterprise, namely the media. "
Money
Think
Value
" It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me. "
Writing
Write
Me
" I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly. "
Because
Someone
Stage
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