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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 I’ve been at Second Amendment rallies where I personally <\/em>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 <\/em>conservative protest are like listening to Soviet Radio.<\/p>\n Also remember this: conservatives aren’t protesters.\u00a0 We have jobs and families.\u00a0 So if there are ten of us actually out somewhere, it means at least 1,000 feel that way almost <\/em>strongly enough to come out.<\/p>\n 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\u00a0big surprise – because, at a high level, this sort of thing scares the piss <\/em>out of them.<\/p>\n Think about it; to get a crowd of lefties – congenital protesters – out for an event in any legitimate numbers\u00a0takes a massive Get Out The Protest effort involving MoveOn.Org or BarackObama.com; it’s big, it’s centralized, and it’s expensive.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n And yet these Tea Parties, lefty slurs notwithstanding (“Constitution Party?”\u00a0 Puh-leeze.\u00a0 I <\/em>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.\u00a0 And it’ll end up being a bigger event than anything MoveOn has done in years, even with their millions of Soros Bux.<\/p>\n And remember – the left has seen this before.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n And The One may have gone a tax too far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}