1 I'm listening to it right now.  Scary stuff.  Be sure to spread it around, especially to people who are sitting on the fence.

2 I only started listening to Levin recently, and his voice was a big hurdle, but now he's the only talk radio I listen to. That guy is smart.

3 Yeah, his voice is grating, but he's one of the smartest people on talk radio.  I like Larry Elder, too, but he's no longer nationally syndicated.

4 I have no good explanation for this, because it defies reason, but I actually find his voice soothing.  

5 I was thinking I need to read "Rules for Radicals" also.  Kind of a fight fire with fire thing. 

If it seems like it can be adopted to the conservative cause I think we should take up a collection and send a copy to every Republican member of Congress, The head of the RNC and the heads of the State Republican Parties.

6 Here is a summation of Alinsky's Rules -  The two that McCain is breaking, in my opinion, are 10 and 11.  There have been a number of opportunities for McCain to draw clear distinctions between his plans and Obama's.  He hasn't done that effectively.  He also hasn't personalized the attacks effectively with Ayers, Wright, and ACORN.

Alinsky provides a collection of rules to guide the process. But he emphasizes these rules must be translated into real-life tactics that are fluid and responsive to the situation at hand.

Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what an opponent thinks you have. If your organization is small, hide your numbers in the dark and raise a din that will make everyone think you have many more people than you do.

Rule 2: Never go outside the experience of your people.
The result is confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 3: Whenever possible, go outside the experience of an opponent. Here you want to cause confusion, fear, and retreat.

Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Rule 6: A good tactic is one your people enjoy. “If your people aren’t having a ball doing it, there is something very wrong with the tactic.”

Rule 7: A tactic that drags on for too long becomes a drag. Commitment may become ritualistic as people turn to other issues.

Rule 8: Keep the pressure on. Use different tactics and actions and use all events of the period for your purpose. “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition. It is this that will cause the opposition to react to your advantage.”

Rule 9: The threat is more terrifying than the thing itself. When Alinsky leaked word that large numbers of poor people were going to tie up the washrooms of O’Hare Airport, Chicago city authorities quickly agreed to act on a longstanding commitment to a ghetto organization. They imagined the mayhem as thousands of passengers poured off airplanes to discover every washroom occupied. Then they imagined the international embarrassment and the damage to the city’s reputation.

Rule 10: The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative. Avoid being trapped by an opponent or an interviewer who says, “Okay, what would you do?”

Rule 11: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Don’t try to attack abstract corporations or bureaucracies. Identify a responsible individual. Ignore attempts to shift or spread the blame.

According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. “The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.”