Washington's un-losing strategy -- and Clarkson's

The Great one was not the first person to assert that George Washington "won" the Revolution by managing to keep on not losing it -- but he was the first to draw attention to this crucial, liberating idea for many of us. Here's an entire podcast on the subject:

http://www.resist.com/war_network/radio_station/war_radio_2013/washington_revolutionary.mp3
Washington Revolutionary

Yes, it's from a site your mother wouldn't want you touching..... but there's an old saying about judging a book by its cover, and another one that goes "Don't shoot the messenger."

Those that heeded The Great One's teachings gained greatly by them. Many a defense has been successful against the tax rats by the perfectly legal, moral methods sometimes going under the wry heading of "sneaky lawyer tricks" -- actual strategems practiced by lawyers, often against innocent people. Me, I've always said that all we had to do was turn the enemy's figurative guns around on them, and we'd win it overnight, otherwise known as simply doing everything they do right back at them. Dr. Clarkson was one of the very, very few conservatives that understood the basics of human nature.

Variation on a theme, familiar to lots of Southerners -- speaking of material that today's self-appointed thought police hate:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar-Baby

My interpretation of it is that you can often win a fight by gumming up your assailant's moves in various ways -- not only via a head-on clash to the death.

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