Allahpundit points out now that Our Lord and Savior’s demonization of El Rushbo failed miserably, His forces are now applying the Saul Alinsky Rules For Radicals No. 12 to Sarah Palin. That rule is: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Greg Sargent tells us:
Is the Rush Limbaugh strategy giving way to the Sarah Palin strategy?
Multiple Democratic strategists say the party plans to increasingly elevate Palin in the same manner it has employed Rush for weeks, using her high-visibility, her social conservatism, and memories of her harsh attacks on Obama during the campaign to tar the GOP as partisan, obstructionist, and backward-looking.
James Carville, a key architect of the Limbaugh strategy, says Dems will be seeking to elevate Palin more and more, because she’s “an identifiable person who has a hook,” unlike GOP leaders like Eric Cantor and Mitch McConnell.
“Her name conjures up all kinds of reactions in people’s minds,” Carville told me, adding that her association with the campaign will be used to portray the GOP as hidebound and to alienate moderates. “She’s an uncomfortable figure for a lot of Republicans,” Carville says. “They want to move beyond her. We like her.”
“Luckily, she seems to present us with an opportunity every few days,” added a senior Dem strategist. “You could say it’s a turkey shoot.”
The increasing use of Palin is already on display. The DCCC blasted out a fundraising email the other day hammering her and “no, baby, no” Republicans who are “standing in President Obama’s way,” associating the current GOP with the partisan heat of 2008. Dems also featured an image of Palin in a new, last minute mailer that just went out hitting the GOP candidate in the white-hot New York House special election as a patsy of Rush — and Palin.
Such efforts are aimed at the Dem base. But House Dem strategists hope she can be used to damage the GOP’s image with swing constituencies in the 2010 elections. “When she was campaigning, she rubbed suburban and independent women the wrong way,” one House Dem strategist says. “They are generally very moderate, and she’s a reminder of the extremism of the party and other aspects of it they dislike.”
It’s a huge gamble. People generally tire of demonization tactics used against anyone and without the anchor known as John McCain and his girlie man “Republican” pals attached, Palin can fire back with her record of accomplishment in Alaska.
Says AP:
[E]vidently they’re willing to double down and try the same strategy out on Palin. Exit question: Do gender politics make it more likely that they’ll overplay their hand with her than with Limbaugh? If they’re putting out one ad after another beating up on her while she’s lying low and taking care of business in Alaska, it’ll quickly seem gratuitous.
Like it did with Rush, this likely will explode in their faces. These radicals are quickly and prominently overplaying their hand, and creating a Villain of the Week simply to advance their radical socialist agenda will become tiresome to the swing voters they fooled in 2008 and need to fool again in 2010 to complete their overthrow of the constitutional government of the United States.
By the way, the 2010 midterm elections are looking more and more critical if anything is to stop this radical transformation. We have a President in Barack Hussein Obama acting like a dictator, we have a Speaker of the House in Bela Pelosi acting like a dictator, and we have a Senate Majority Leader in Dingy Harry acting like a dictator.
Giving control of Congress back to the Republicans is the only thing that will stop the transformation of the United States into a socialist dictatorship.
[...] she will be a GOP heavyweight in 2012. That, by the way, is why the Democrats and the White House have chosen to exercise the Saul Alinsky Rule No. 12 on her. Palin drew approximately 3,000 people to the Vanderburgh [...]