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LESSONS FOR THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT? How David Beats Goliath. Is getting active in every Congressio?

By Glenn Reynolds

LESSONS FOR THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT? How David Beats Goliath. Is getting active in every Congressional district kind of like a full-court press? But don’t wait for elections: “Insurgents operate in real time.” Give ‘em something new to react to all the time. But it’s not easy: “Effort can trump ability?legs, in Saxe?s formulation, can overpower arms?because relentless effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coördination.” And remember this, too: “When the world has to play on Goliath?s terms, Goliath wins.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on May 05, 2009 (boomark / email).