We're having a Tea Party today. I don't mean we're going to one, I mean we're HAVING one. My group is the official organizing entity of the Tea Party in our county.
Until it's over I'm all anxiety about whether it will be a success.
Whether there will be 6 people standing on a street corner waving their poor little flags...or whether an enormous crowd will emerge out of our seeming overwhelmingly Blue Haven and shock the hell out of the Øbama sycophants who noisily populate this place.
I'll be grateful for something respectable in-between.
My group is attempting, in our Progressive region, to become the go-to organization for Conservatives and Libertarians to find each other and work together to have, for the first time in years, an actual effect on the politics of this one-party Nightmare on Main Street.
Conservatives are finally getting pissed. Thank God for small favors.
I only hope a lot of them are pissed enough to get off their couches and join us.
As a new organization, this is our first big public event. It won't break us if it's not a major success. But, man, it will give us some serious credibility if it is—and that's GOLD.
So, there's a lot at stake.
As I write this it's just before 10:00 AM and the Tea Party officially begins at 2:00 PM.
I've got four hours before I even have the slightest inkling which way this thing is going to shake out. And the closer it gets, the more nervy I get.
We've done everything we can to make it happen. I just hope it's enough.
I can't even be there when it starts because I'm working. But my crew will be there...and I'll get reports.
I'll let you know what happens.
The Gunslinger
(Tea Party Patriot)
Joebama American citizens 2024 print
9 months ago
I know what you mean. I'm about to head to ours in St. Louis... promises to have not a few grubby infiltrators and instigators slipping in, but we're pretty confident that the stench of their bad ideas and the nose and lip piercings will let us know who to give a loud mocking to.
ReplyDeleteBest of luck to you in yours! And heartfelt thanks to all who are putting forth the effort!
Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI found out about the local Tea Party from the S2 section, they periodically send out a list of all the planned protests in the area so soldiers can avoid them.
It's a pity I'll be working during the protest here...
I just hope God watches over this country and lets good men be victorious in the end. Plant and Garden Blog
ReplyDeleteMade ours here at 1715. I estimated 350 to 400 turned out. It was a fine event filled with Patriotism and rugged individualism.
ReplyDeleteI hope yours went well Guns.
The Tea Party in Palatine, IL was blessed with perfect weather and about 300 to 400 attendees. A number of passing automobiles offered salutory honks of approval during the course of the event, which ran from 3PM to 6PM local time.
ReplyDeleteWhile the crowd was predominantly aged 35 and up (with many of us "ups"), a respectable contigent of younger people were there as well. A young teen sported a sign with "Our generation needs a Reagan" and "Where's my Reagan". Only one counter-demonstrator appeared from what I heard.
While the primary topic of most speeches concerned oppressive taxes at all levels of government, each also related to some government abuse of its Constitutional limits. Not even the Federal Reserve and its destructive monetary policies escaped notice. Several candidates for local, state and federal offices were also invited to speak and hammered at the same theme, government was out of control, and not just with taxes.
The flags, the speeches and the enthusiasm of the crowd filled my heart with pride to be an American and to be with my fellow Americans in this great struggle against tyranny.
I attended one yesterday, and the turnout was HUGE...I've been going to all the Tea Parties around here, and I'm telling you...the attendance is rising. Not only are people pissed...more of 'em are getting involved.
ReplyDeleteWe had a good showing, a few hundred during the afternoon in St. Charles, and the official count for the St. Louis Tea Party was 1,800-2,200 I put it between 2,500 - 3,000, but what the hey.
ReplyDeleteWe had a couple infilTraitor's, but they were given a good mocking and they ran away forthwith. I've got a link to the one Adam Sharp followed around (Adam was the one who caught Rep. Hare the other week saying "I don't care about the constitution!" - we hear he does care now - lol).
Yabu said "...the attendance is rising. Not only are people pissed...more of 'em are getting involved."
ReplyDeleteYep, same here. I was manning a table and wandering through the crowd with sign-up sheets, and I went through several pages myself, including a dozen or so putting their money where they enthusiasm was, to sign up for classes in effective bitter clinger tactics.