See You At The Capitol
By Mitch Berg
I’ll be heading out in about an hour and a half to go to the Minnesota Tea Party, at the Capitol Mall in Saint Paul.
There’ll be a Tweetup – if you have my Twitter ID, look it up; I’d love to see you there. All of us Domestic Terror Suspects gotta stick together.
Remember, when watching “coverage” of these events in the Mainstream Media or Paidoff Liberal Media; when reading turnout figures, multiply by at least five, if not a full order of magntitude. I’ve been at Second Amendment rallies where I personally counted a thousand people that got credited with 200 attendees in the MSM and PLM; Jason Lewis’ annual tax rally, which packs the Mall solid from the steps down to Constitution (5-7,000) every year gets credited with maybe a thousand, to the point where reading MSM/PLM accounts of any conservative protest are like listening to Soviet Radio.
Also remember this: conservatives aren’t protesters. We have jobs and families. So if there are ten of us actually out somewhere, it means at least 1,000 feel that way almost strongly enough to come out.
The MSM/PLM are doing their best to try to trivialize this – the terminally vacuous Anderson Cooper (“the Nicky Hilton of News!”) has bought into the juvenile “teabag” slur, not that that’s a big surprise – because, at a high level, this sort of thing scares the piss out of them.
Think about it; to get a crowd of lefties – congenital protesters – out for an event in any legitimate numbers takes a massive Get Out The Protest effort involving MoveOn.Org or BarackObama.com; it’s big, it’s centralized, and it’s expensive. Being liberal protesters, they need zealous kids with bullhorns to tell them where to stand and what to say, and entertainment to keep them from throwing rocks and getting into fights; that takes money and organization.
And yet these Tea Parties, lefty slurs notwithstanding (“Constitution Party?” Puh-leeze. I got more votes than them running as a Libertarian in 1998) are wholly organic; they were organized by a bunch of no-names on blogs and Twitter. And it’ll end up being a bigger event than anything MoveOn has done in years, even with their millions of Soros Bux.
And remember – the left has seen this before. The smart ones – and there are a few – know that when masses of conservatives gather, the grounds will be neat and clean and the police will be nice and bored, but politicians will get the message. On Second Amendment issues, on taxes, on issue after issue, the workadaddy hugamommy conservative voter is the harried, benighted, put-upon giant of the American electorate.
And The One may have gone a tax too far.
April 15th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Wow you sound like the coach of the New Jersey Generals giving his team a pep talk before they go out to face the Globetrotters.
April 15th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Heavens, were you drunk when you typed this? Teabagging!
April 15th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
I think Tim in StP’s comments on this topic are proof that when you are tax-consumer rather than a tax-payer your attitude towards tax-payers is something like the attitude a farmer has towards his crop.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Good to see you there, Mitch. I just happened to spot “Spot” and got a very nice picture…suitable for Photoshopping.
HAHAHAHAHA!
April 15th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
RickDFL: ah. So you’re saying that the political game is fixed; I thought that was the “wingnut” complaint.
April 15th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Yay teabaggers! While you’re at it, give Roosh a “rusty trombone.”
2wingnuts1cup.
April 15th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
I saw you as I came in and introduced myself when you finished being interviewed by the guy with the little video camera. I had just met a couple of old skydiving buddies in the parking lot, small world.
It was a pretty good crowd though it didn’t pack the entire mall. I’m guessing at least a thousand, possibly over two thousand. We’ll see what the TV news says tonight.
April 15th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
Yay teabaggers!
We certainly know which side Angry Clown would have been on during the Revolutionary War. Up yours, Tory!
Not that I’m questioning his patriotism or anything. We’ll leave that to people like AC’s hero Paul Begala, who wants to call April 15th Patriots Day. Gee, I wonder why he didn’t bring this up before? When your party controls all those tax dollars you see things a little differently, I guess.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
KSTP at the top of the 10:00 news reported 10,000 people at the Capitol for the tea party.
Suck it, Clownie.
April 15th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Angry Clown can’t respond right now. He put an add on Craigslist seeking a ‘teabagging party’ & now he’s off to infiltrate the group. I wonder if he will remember to take off his dentures?
He will get to the bottom of this ‘teabagging’ nonsense no matter how long it takes.
Perhaps even long enough to get a ‘dirty sanchez’.
April 16th, 2009 at 1:04 am
TISP,
Heavens, were you drunk when you typed this? Teabagging!
Project much?
April 16th, 2009 at 1:50 am
That’s right, Tim. Remember, conservatives are rubber, and liberals are glue. Whatever you say bounces off of them and sticks to you. No backs!
The only time this argument can possibly be defeated is on Opposite Day.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:16 am
Disco Stoo,
No, it can’t.
And the claim was based on what Tim wrote and how he wrote it. He “sounded” drunk.
Asking “teabagging” is the mark of a real intellect, y’see.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:48 am
It was a nice day at the capitol.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:58 am
Please, Kerm. The fact that there are a bunch of angry white conservatives who don’t take an overwhelming electoral loss as a signal to sit down and shut the fuck up for a month or two doesn’t surprise Angryclown. Whatevs. I’m sure the representatives in St. Paul paid close attention to the message of your little whine-fest. You know, whatever it was, beyond “WAAAAAH, WE DON’T LIKE TO LOSE!” Seemed not much more than a collection of typical crazy rightwing rants. Here’s one of your more articulate wingnut colleagues. Shiftee maybe?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlR5Rxfk67o
April 16th, 2009 at 8:00 am
Huh. Wasn’t aware there was a statute of limitations on the First Amendment.
Are you letting something slip that you’re not supposed to?
April 16th, 2009 at 8:11 am
The Boston Tea Party was in protest of taxation without representation in Parliament. You extreme right-wingers have all the representation your minority of votes earned you.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Terry said:
“We’ll leave that to people like AC’s hero Paul Begala, who wants to call April 15th Patriots Day”
It seems to be a growing meme:
http://www.archive.org/details/TheSpiritOf43_56
This was suggested by someone who thought it was good “pro-tax” material. I laughed.
April 16th, 2009 at 8:17 am
Could angryclown whine more?
April 16th, 2009 at 8:56 am
It’s called mocking, Troy. Angryclown is sorry you’re too dumb to get that you’re the joke.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:35 am
I guess your not as good at mocking as you think you are.
Perhaps another line of work is calling you?
April 16th, 2009 at 11:39 am
Is it that you intentionally get it wrong, AC, or is it that you can’t tell the difference?
Based on the left-leaners I know who also got it wrong (at least one getting it wrong unintentionally, another getting it wrong to serve his Strawman arguement)… I suspect you fall into both camps.
April 16th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Isn’t it odd that Angry Clown brags about liberals believing in democracy while he simultaneously brags about Obama’s ‘electoral vote victory’? The presidential electoral system is the most anti-democratic institution defined in the constitution.
More intellectual inconsistency from the left.
April 17th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Good point, Terry. But he won the popular vote too. Actually there’s any number of antidemocratic features of the constitution: equal representation of states in the Senate, life tenure for the Supreme Court and other Article III judges, the 3/5ths compromise and much of the Bill of Rights.
Be careful what you wish for. The electoral college and the Supreme Court brought you your beloved George W. Bush. The bestest president ever!
April 17th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
The word “democracy” is not in the constitution.