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Rules for Radical Conservatives: Beating the Left at Its Own Game to Take Back America
Written by David Kahane
Narrated by John Allen Nelson
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The vast right wing conspiracy has found its General Patton, and his name is David Kahane. Kahane's pseudonymous, satiric column for National Review Online, lampooning the Left via his Hollywood-radical persona-Stephen Colbert's liberal doppelganger-is must-listening for political aficionados of all stripes. Now, from the inside, Kahane proudly exposes the secret and not-so-secret winning strategies (and vulnerabilities) of the Left and gives desperate conservatives a roadmap to victory, in a take-no-prisoners manual modeled after Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, Machiavelli's Prince, and, of course, the Chicago Way.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Clever sendup of Alinsky, reminiscent of the Screwtape Letters. Cathartic with several belly-laughs. This book only means something to a reader who is up on the news and on twentieth-century history. It means a lot to anyone who just doesn't want to feel alone.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In a world where Climategate is a crime worth torture but Wikileaks is the best medicine; where labels are considered hurtful and demeaning but the most vitriolic use of the word "teabagger" is laudable; where Republicans are sexists and bigots but rally around the likes of Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain, (not to mention all three are the epitome of stupidity and illogical rag-a-muffins dredged up from the limited barrel marked "Tokens"). David Kahane, if that is his real name, writes as if Saul Alinsky is writing from the far reaches of Hades.At times, more often than not, actually, Rules for Radical Conservatives reads as if it was written by a liberal, taunting their opponents, like a Lion Tamer poking his head inside a gaping lion's mouth. As if a self-skewering and braggadocious, here's how to get us, war plan, it seems too accommodating to the enemy. But political war is political war; it is tempting to take the bait, like a football coach "finding" the playbook of the most winning team, a gnawing skepticism is ruefully squashed in the hopes of winning against the best team. Kahane writes in a convincing manner that has me wondering which side he is really on.The Left, projecting their projections unto the Right, wins hearts and minds by confusing the reality television generation. They claim they simply do not want a Palin or Cain to garner the Republican nomination because they are too simple and imbecilic to proceed past the nominating convention. [To the left, the voting masses are too smart to fall for tricks of the Right, yet they are far too simple to know better than to elect Sarah Palin or Herman Cain!] The Left is apparently afraid of an easy victory; victims of a landslide they created by digging away the foundation of a California hillside. It would be as if Tom Brady and New England Patriots were "afraid" to play the 2008 Detroit Lions and instead opted to play themselves. As is well known by the politically astute, those the Left most voice they "concern" about are the most formidable. The only downside of this book was the completely true-to-the-Left way Kahane writes. He perfectly obtains the heady, smarter-than-thou professorial writing style of a PhD-bearing Liberal. From the extensive reference to the deepest inner workings of last centuries Soviet politburo to the we-want-to-be-artists-but-for-expediency-create-candy-coated-pap-for-the-masses-because-that-is-where-the-money-is-at Hollywood screenwriter.A marvelous parody of Saul Alinsky's offerings, but with a less-than-hidden message for the politically Right.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Think Screwtape Letters for Conservatives, where Screwtape is a Liberal. Some of it will make you cringe, some of it will make you think.