Rick Perry & Surrogates Using Obama's Alinsky-esque Tactics (Surprise, Surprise)

For anyone who has read any of the high school recommended gem Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky, this should come as no surprise, but his philosophy is alive and well in American politics today.  I want to link some of these ideas to Rick Perry, but first let me give a little context.

In "Rules", Alinsky talks about how community organizers should instruct others in various tactics to enact change and get power for themselves.  His methods ignore conventions of civilized society or making your case by arguing the merits of your point of view, by suggesting hordes of black people eat tons of beans and then fill up a theater or similar public venue and gas the rich whities.

He also gleefully outlines how super it would be to hold airport bathrooms hostage to the point of mothers telling their children to just squat in the corner and let 'er rip.  The sheer chaos this would cause!

He also is proud of this tactic: camping outside an executive's home to protest capitalism and American ingenuity, causing a ruckus, disturbing the peace, frightening the neighbors, and as is the case in recent years, trapping children alone in their home while they (SEIU "purple shirts") chanted and yelled.

The whole point of these exercises is to demonize, isolate and "freeze out" individuals or businesses they don't like, or to use them as a means to an end.  For example, demonize someone: either they get fearful, or in the case of businesses they start losing money to the competition so the harassment has the result of enacting changes.  They are nudged into submission by the mob for fear of worse reprisal.  Nudges...where have I heard that before?  

Oh yes, Obama's regulatory czar Cass Sunstein wrote the book on nudging (or shoving) people in the direction you want them to--to make the change seem more palatable ("I was happy on path X, but I guess I'll have to take path Y or they'll shove me down path Z" - when in fact they wanted you to take path Y for now anyway).

Through the whole Obama campaign (from the 2008 election until today, since Obama's campaign is unending), opponents, anyone critical, or anyone who asked a tough question was demonized, isolated and frozen out.  You don't want to be labeled 'racist', do you?  Or a "Birther"...you don't want to be one of those. (Obama's mother was an American, so he should be American too.  He just milked the confusion for all it was worth by not releasing the appropriate documentation, like every other candidate.  Hillary was the first to bring up the issue, and Obama used the situation to his advantage for years.)

Obama himself criticized the Tea Party on many occasions, trivializing them as those folks "waving tea bags", not to mention all the "tea-bagging" slurs that have permeated the political discussion for two years.

The most dangerous thing these days is losing sight of the bigger picture.  It's not all black & white, Republican vs. Democrat, good and evil.  While all of those things or groups exist, there are no absolutes.  Anyone can fall from grace, just as anyone can put principles over party.

While there can be firm, unwavering principles, such as our founding documents, when it comes to people, especially when power is concerned there are no absolutes.

Rick Perry, already established as a 'politics as usual' politician, as well as his surrogates are just as capable of wearing the progressive colors as Obama, McCain, or even on some issues, Bush.  In the piece entitled, "On the Nature of the Perry Attacks" by Erick Erickson, he claims "attacks" on Rick Perry are being waged by disgruntled Republican consultants who have backed the wrong horse in the past, gone up against Perry and lost, so now they are bitter at Perry and concerned about losing job opportunities if he gets elected.

So if you criticize Ricky, you're just an angry, bitter consultant?  What's Michelle Malkin's excuse for exposing his record and pointing to pattern of big government solutions, Nanny-state policies and usurpation of powers for the executive branch (him!)?   

It concerns me that Perry and his supporters (the approved-of Republican consultants, perhaps) would resort to Alinksy-esque tactics, but the fact that people on the right seemingly can't connect the broken political machinery of Perry to the methods Obama uses, especially after they cataloged all of these tactics for the last three years now--that truly disturbs me.