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More from Freedom Rally on Santa Monica Pier

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I would have posted more pictures from the “Tea Party” on Santa Monica Pier right after the event, but was not getting good reception from my wireless card at the Cafe where I went after the rally with some great people I met there.

I had a great time; everyone was friendly. We were all impressed with the crowd, maybe as many as 200, given the short notice and the fact that in far-flung LA it was at one of the fringes of the metropolis. And it was a work day for most.

Oh, and to our constant critics, I regularly identified myself as a blogger at GayPatriot and, guess what, no one had a problem with my sexuality. In fact, one of the organizers said if he had known I was there, he would have invited me to speak.

The crowd as as ethnically diverse as the region and its politics ran the gamut from socially liberal Republican fiscal hawks to social conservatives to disciples of renegade Republicant Ron Paul. There were some cute guys as well as attractive women as some of the pictures below show:

This one I chose just for one of our most devoted readers, known to those who peruse the comments section as ILoveCapitalism.

I think some of our readers would say, “Yes,” to this guy:

And one for the ladies:




Looks like one protestor is resigning himself to the Obama era:

Comments

  2. #2 – I agree. Even Fox News’ website has not highlighted the myriad of taxpayer protests around the country. Really disappointed in that one.

    Of course, none of the local Houston affiliates showed up to the TWO tea parties being held in our city. I will echo what a commenter said on Michelle Malkin’s blog – we should hold our next protest in front of a TV channel and FORCE them to cover it.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

    PS – Yes, Dan, the blond guy is one to whom I will say YES! YES! YES! over and over again. 😉

  5. Someone else who gets it: the increasingly popular Peter Schiff, in “Obama Puts the Economic Cart Before the Horse”:

    In his first televised speech before Congress, President Obama asserted that prosperity will return once the government restores the flow of credit in the economy. It may come as a surprise to him, but an economy cannot run on consumer loans…
    The President does not understand that consumption is made possible by production and that credit is made possible by savings…

    Read the whole thing. It proceeds to an excellent, basic explanation of how production & credit work.

  7. The crowd as as ethnically diverse as the region and its politics ran the gamut from socially liberal Republican fiscal hawks to social conservatives to disciples of renegade Republicant Ron Paul.

    Question since you have some great people with signs about repealing the bailout: do those folks (who all seem to be conservative in some fashion, although representing a broad spectrum of conservatism) not realize that the bailout was a creature of the GOP (Bush & Paulson)? The Stimulus is a Dem/lib thing, but the bailout was not. I’m not trying to bait, I’m honestly trying to understand the gradations of objection: anti-stimulus, anti-bailout, anti-both of them, etc.

  9. JG, a lot of conservatives and Republicans (two groups which overlap, but are by no means identical!) thought last year’s bailout was a terrible, terrible idea. And even those who thought that it was not great, but the best solution available at the time, worried about the precedent it would set. (Their worries were justified, I would say…)

    Off the top of my head, Don Surber and Ace of Spades HQ both had posts critical of the bailout, and if I recall correctly, there were some knock-down-drag-out fights over it in the comments at Hot Air, too.

  12. A refreshing sight..and only a month after the era of victims’ politics inauguration. Glad to see the conservative side of L.A. for a change. Dan — I hope you did the true, red-blooded gay American male right-thing, and got the blonde’s phone number! Woof!

  13. Dan — I hope you did the true, red-blooded gay American male right-thing, and got the blonde’s phone number! Woof!

    I’m always hopeful for Dan. He knows that he’s supposed to tell me about the guys he meets for my approval, but he’s not the kiss’n’tell type.

  15. Aren’t you embarrassed to be calling these things ‘tea parties?’ It just looks to me like people standing around on the street holding signs. People have been doing that for years.

  18. I was going to say ‘teabag party’ but yours is more the civil comment.

    He must have been wanting violence or street theater, maybe some envelopes with white powder sent to the IRS.

    After all, it’s what the no-on-8 prostesters would do…