Who knew there were so many conservative-minded people in the valley…LOL

I could barely hear the speakers from all the honking car horns.

Git ‘er done!

Regards,
Peter H.

Regards,
Peter H.

Unlike the anti-war rallies, the people who put these parties together are very new at this sort of thing, so we’re learning. If your number of 260,000 is accurate, then this was an amazing success. People not adept at getting the message out. Further more, unlike the anti-war rallies, which were held on weekends, this was held on a weekday, so a quarter-million people is a good turnout.

I said we needed 214,000 to make this a success. Looks like we met and exceeded this goal–and your figure is from a site which leans left.

Sometimes I wonder if the browser changes words on me without telling me. I mean, could my fingers have really typed ‘definition’ – and correctly – when I was thinking the word ‘deficits’? Maybe.

As for your War Tax Resistor stuff or whatever it is – I saw none of that at all. Truly none. I did see American flags and patriotic slogans. I can’t speak for the Tea Party movement, obviously, but I would suspect that many of the people involved would understand that national defense is one of the legitimate functions of government, and hence, not something they care to protest. It was the myriad, and ever-growing, illegitimate functions of government that people appeared to be protesting. I gave a description of what I saw, here:
http://www.gaypatriot.net/?comments_popup=10621#comment-407774

It’s consistent with the signs and slogans that you can see in the photographs posted on the GayPatriot site.

Next, the fact that X% of Republicans will tell a pollster that their taxes are “about right” means nothing: aside from the Republican / non-Republican question already discussed, it was the size and scale of government that was being protested, whether it be financed by higher taxes, definition, or the dilution (‘printing’) of money. Where government expands, personal responsibility and freedom contract.

As for your slightly hurt talk about ‘collegiality’ – The reaction I was expecting to my comment would have been more like a simple “Yes, I can see that was a bit silly of me.” Lighten up.

It was fun and the crowd was friendly. I saw people of all Political stripes come together. President Obama, Congress, and the MSM woke a sleeping beast — 2010 here we come!

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/04/denton-texas-tax-day-tea-party-april.html

Signed, Right Wing Extremist Radical Militant LOL!

The lack of an overarching theme and the lack of national organization was, for me at least, what made them so exciting!

I mean, these are normal people – working people – who came out to air grievances and CONNECT with each other. I’d contrast that with an ACORN rent-a-mob any day…

Best wishes,
-MFS

Everything I wrote was (indeed, always is) a first draft, typos included, and based on a variety of extremely easily available sources. I claimed that I was correlating two or three bits of data that I considered, in some way, pertinent. As I said, it was ‘one’ way of looking at the data, not ‘THE’ way (as if there is only one way that this data can be meaningfully interpreted!).If that was me showing off, it would be a pretty poor show.

In this forum i’m a keyboard warrior who knows how to type and chew gum at the same time, not unique to this site, i’m sure. I dont think that i’ve claimed anything more, or if I have I have attempted to qualify my assertions. I place a value on being collegial, though it may not be something that I am 100% successful in, or that other members of this forum value.