{"id":7170,"date":"2010-09-23T19:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T23:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7170"},"modified":"2010-09-23T19:18:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T23:18:53","slug":"what-is-the-liberals%e2%80%99-constructive-alternative-to-gop%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98pledge-to-america%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7170\/what-is-the-liberals%e2%80%99-constructive-alternative-to-gop%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98pledge-to-america%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Liberals\u2019 Constructive Alternative to GOP\u2019s \u2018Pledge to America\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives can be forgiven for thinking that every member of the liberal establishment has read and memorized Saul Alinsky\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rules_for_Radicals \" target=\"_blank\"><em>Rules for Radicals<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 The subject of Hillary Clinton\u2019s college senior thesis and the inspiration for a young Barack Obama\u2019s zeal for community organizing, the <em>Rules<\/em> stand alongside Chairman Mao\u2019s little red book in the Leftist\u2019s canon.\u00a0 But time and again, the liberals running the Democratic Party into the ground seem to be as clueless about the rules as they are about the laws of economic gravity.<\/p>\n<p>Consider <em>Rule #12: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative<\/em>.\u00a0 On some level, liberals knew this when they spent the better part of a year castigating Republicans as \u2018The Party of No\u2019.\u00a0 They knew that the public wouldn\u2019t accept the GOP as a credible governing party until it produced a constructive alternative.\u00a0 (Though worthy of support, Rep. Paul Ryan\u2019s (R-WI) <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Roadmap for America\u2019s Future<\/a><\/em> has yet to gain widespread acceptance in the GOP caucus.)\u00a0 With this week\u2019s \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/pledge.gop.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pledge to America<\/a>\u2019 the GOP is now a party with a constructive alternative.<\/p>\n<p>The field is open, liberals.\u00a0 And time is dwindling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservatives can be forgiven for thinking that every member of the liberal establishment has read and memorized Saul Alinsky\u2019s Rules for Radicals.\u00a0 The subject of Hillary Clinton\u2019s college senior thesis and the inspiration for a young Barack Obama\u2019s zeal for community organizing, the Rules stand alongside Chairman Mao\u2019s little red book in the Leftist\u2019s canon.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,143,928,1561,118,739,802,334,1870],"class_list":["post-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-barack-obama","tag-conservative","tag-democrat-party","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-liberal","tag-paul-ryan","tag-republican-party","tag-saul-alinsky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7172,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions\/7172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}