Two Questions For Democrats…

…especially any of you that have ever used the term “teabagger” to refer to a conservative exercising his/her free speech, and/or written any conservative grass-roots action off to “astroturfing”:

  1. So I take it you’ll be ignoring all of the “research” and “data” coming from Citizens for a Supine “Safer” Minnesota from now on.  Right?  Because y’all seem to take them pretty seriously today, even though the “group” is essentially one woman, Dr. Rebecca Thoman (who is an OBGYN, not an emergency room trauma surgeon, by the way), and her majordomo, Heather Martens.  If they go to a demonstration, and they call on their “friends” at “Million Mom March”, they may draw half a dozen people, mostly out-of-work professional activists.  Indeed, various second-amendment activist friends relate stories of going to C”S”M meetings where shooter “ringers” outnumbered the anti-gun activists by several to one – where “one” is an absolute number, not a ratio.
  2. Let’s accept, for the moment, that all of the conservative response at Town Hall meetings, and all of the Tea Parties, are in fact being coordinated by some cabal of right-leaning “astroturf” groups.  OK – so what?  Do you think that just because someone sets a meeting and says “let’s protest”, that it’ll draw a crowd?  Especially a crowd of conseratives – people who never come out to picket, wave signs or chant slogans?  With Democrats, of course, it’s ture – to paraphrase Fred THompson in The Hunt for Red October, Democrats don’t take a restroom break without some gropu gtelling them where to go or what to do.  But conservatives?  Election day is the biggest “demonstration” most conservatives ever make it to, ever, their lives.  So even if  there were some shadowy cabal out there, what makes you think people would come to the town halls and tea parties if the anger wasn’t very , very genuine?  You can start an astroturf group – but that doesn’t mean people will come, and bring the passion that the anti-Obamacare dissidents bring.  Just watch a “Million Mom” or “Code Pink” or ACORN demonstration for proof.

Of course, you do know that’s the truth – which is why the campaigns to mock, dismiss and intimidate these outbursts are being coordinated from the White House itself.
But since “astroturf” is newly “un-american”, I figured I’d give all you stalwarts in the lefty alt-media a chance to show your consistency.

Go to it!

4 thoughts on “Two Questions For Democrats…

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  2. One minor correction: you’re confusing Heather Martens with her predecessor, Rebecca Thoman. Rebecca is an MD; Heather’s not. These days, Heather is a fulltime employee of the Joyce-funded Citizens for a “Safer” Minnesota, and spends her days astroturfing in between paychecks.

    But that doesn’t affect the thrust of your post; you’re spot on.

  3. “Democrats don’t take a restroom break without some gropu gtelling them where to go or what to do.” … and without forming a 501(c)(3) to help cover the costs of toilet paper.

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