Revealed: Left’s dishonesty about Republican “mobs” somehow even worse than thought
posted at 8:28 pm on August 5, 2009 by Allahpundit
I’ll quote a bit of Mary Katharine’s post to start you off but there’s no way to do justice to it in an excerpt. It’s the must-read of the day so you must read it.
Right Principles has a Facebook group with 23 members and a Twitter account with five followers. MacGuffie describes himself as an “opponent of leftist thinking in America,” and told me he’s “never pulled a lever” for a Republican or Democrat on a federal level. Yet this Connecticut libertarian’s influence over a national, orchestrated Republican health-care push-back is strong, indeed, if you listen to liberal pundits and the Democratic National Committee, who have crafted a nefarious web out of refutable evidence.
Think Progress highlighted his memo’s directives to “‘Yell,’ ‘Stand Up And Shout Out,’ ‘Rattle Him’,” calling it a “right-wing harassment strategy against Dems.” The blog falsely connected MacGuffie to the national conservative group FreedomWorks through the most tenuous of threads. The Think Progress link that purports to establish MacGuffie as a FreedomWorks “volunteer” leads to his one blog posting on a Tea Party website (on the free social networking site, ning.com). Think Progress calls Tea Party Patriots a “FreedomWorks website.”
The problem is it’s not a FreedomWorks site, according to FreedomWorks spokesman Adam Brandon. FreedomWorks is a “coalition partner” of TeaPartyPatriots.org, but does not fund the site in any way…
The Rachel Maddow Show repeated Think Progress’ reporting on MacGuffie’s connections, showing the memo, and declaring its author “affiliated with an organization called FreedomWorks.”
The DNC has now made the memo the centerpiece of its “Mob” ad out today, from which I grabbed this screen shot, at the :40 mark…
The voice over for this image says behavior at health-care town halls is “straight from the playbook of high-level Republican political operatives.”
So it came to be that a guy no one’s heard of, who created a memo that was sent to 10 people, who once wrote a single post for a site that’s not even formally connected to a major conservative group, and who’s not even a Republican became the evil mastermind behind a national Republican conspiracy to “manufacture outrage” at town halls from coast to coast. This is how the nutroots and their media enablers work. Go read the post. Or, if you prefer, close your eyes and listen to the “symphony”…
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Mr Runner, I don’t think they need to do anything just yet. Remember the tired, seemingly endless Long March the Democrat’s platoon of pathetic candidates took in an effort to unseat Bush? I think they’re just following the old maxim, “When your enemy is busy cutting his own throat, just let hm finish the job.”
VoyskaPVO on August 5, 2009 at 9:26 PM
Sooo… let me get this straight…
Its OK for the Dems to give a Lefty political group (ACORN) TAX dollars to organize on various subjects… and to have David Axelrod, who made his Rep doing astorturfing…
But on the Right… a blogger who TEN people read sends out a call to arms… and thats a Nationwide Conspiracy?
Hmmmmm…..
Romeo13 on August 5, 2009 at 9:27 PM
Since Colmes and Monica Crowley are in-laws, family get togethers should be interesting.
ICBM on August 5, 2009 at 9:27 PM
I reported this blog entry to flag@WhiteHouse.Gov.
I am reporting every entry to flag@WhiteHouse.Gove.
Speak up maggots! We own you!!!!
crash72 on August 5, 2009 at 9:28 PM
A symphony??
Sheesh… they embarrass themselves more and more every day.
jana on August 5, 2009 at 9:28 PM
The Electric Lightworker Orchestra
ICBM on August 5, 2009 at 9:30 PM
I really liked the video. Congratulations on being turned in.
Cindy Munford on August 5, 2009 at 9:30 PM
You might get a bounce back on that second one, Skippy……
…….. but keep up the goode work anyway.
Seven Percent Solution on August 5, 2009 at 9:31 PM
Better than that, people have the internet. It’s a real eye opener, it get’s people asking questions, and most importantly it informs the public of the news the MSM deems unfit to print or broadcast.
Translation: MSM efforts to keep the voting public mislead and ignorant of facts is no longer bullet proof.
Information is power. Always has been and I suspect always will be. The Dem’s problem, they can’t contain the information as well as they used to.
Hog Wild on August 5, 2009 at 9:31 PM
OK so, umm, what exactly is flag@WhiteHouse.Gove?????
doriangrey on August 5, 2009 at 9:33 PM
I heard Alan Combes say this too. Total joke…these Lefties are pathetic.
Go to FreedomWorks. Look at States, choose Missouri. Missouri has been the site of 2 huge events, McCaskill and Caranhan.
Now look at the Missouri page. Please, there’s hardly anything there and what is is old. Hardly an activist site.
(go to barackobama.com to see what real organizing is)
r keller on August 5, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Yup, it’s the NewThink.
petefrt on August 5, 2009 at 9:33 PM
Apparently Baucus got the horse head last night…only explanation for the sudden Obama love. I’ll give the Chicago gang props for knowing how to play rough. If repubs and conservatives try to maintain the high ground these guys will kill you. Get in their face, get loud and make threats, it is the Chicago way.
jwp1964 on August 5, 2009 at 9:34 PM
Heh… Bambi seems to keep forgetting about YouTube…
jana on August 5, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Obama is a massive tool that needs to be ousted. Let his evil ways grow in time and everyone will be wishing they didn’t act sooner.
Grafted on August 5, 2009 at 9:36 PM
I disagree, Mr. SovietAirDefenceForces (what made you take a moniker like that anyway ?). This has several aims, one is to kill the grassroots effort, which, as I pointed out above, is all the Republican party has going for it right now.
runner on August 5, 2009 at 9:36 PM
Requiem
thomasaur on August 5, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Barry , Pelosi, and company are searching for answers. They just can’t believe that the American Public doesn’t agree with their Far Left Ideology. The Sleeping Giant is awakening. The American Public is ticked off.
kingsjester on August 5, 2009 at 9:39 PM
I disagree, living in Southern California. When local LEO is motivated to prevent a “disturbance” they reroute traffic away from it. You can’t tear gas 50,000 people but you can trap them for an hour in a SigAlert. It’s a better deterrent than tear gas. If it gets to the stage of a general “civil uprising” it is because LEO sat it out.
Chris_Balsz on August 5, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Ever listened to a modern symphony? Take some tylenol first.
Fighton03 on August 5, 2009 at 9:41 PM
So you must be an After-Birther. You are After Birthers. You must be one of those conspiracy nuts who think that the moon landing was faked. Hey how about the Roswell crash?
After-birthers are too funny.
Geochelone on August 5, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Isn’t this Max Baucus the Senator heading the committee in the Senate that my Senator Grassley is part of. The one sort of kind of holding things up.
I’d say if we’re hoping for any decent, honest bill out of this guy we’re in trouble.
Sounds like he’s got a Barney Frank style crush on the Pinnochio Presidente!
“Ohhhh, did you hear his voice? Ohhh, I love that guy, he Lies sooo well and is clean and ohhh, he sounds good ,uuhhh, I just love that he is our Pinnochio.. Single payer, goberment decides if you live or die, abortion any time, any where, paid for by the taxpayer,..Presidente!
Pinnochio? Uuhhh yes Mr. Presidente whatever you want , just bend over where oohhhh”
Shut up Grassley” I’m taliking to my Presidente and he wants this done yesterday . Yes Mr. Pinnochio your wish is my command your Highness!
I’ll get these backwoods bumpkins in line Sir! Can I just touch your ring when you come to Montana or wash your feet or something?”
God#@43 Ef’n idiot Mother%$$##$s
Vote this fool OUT!
dhunter on August 5, 2009 at 9:44 PM
My God what has happen to our country?We have got only a few months to stop this insanity it,s now or we can kiss it goodbye.Let the revolution begin.
thmcbb on August 5, 2009 at 9:44 PM
They know that the majority don’t believe in their Far Left Ideology but they have control of the law making processes and could care less what the majority thinks.
thomasaur on August 5, 2009 at 9:46 PM
I remember a lot angry mobs back in the late 60s.
They smoked weed, wore tie-dyed shirts and peace symbols, had pony tails and spit on our soldiers when they returned from Vietnam.
Oh, and guess what? They were all libs.
An angrier bunch you have never seen.
fogw on August 5, 2009 at 9:47 PM
I thought I kept seeing the same 23 guys on all those town-hall vids. We now have confirmation. They are clever and ubiquitous.
casel21 on August 5, 2009 at 9:49 PM
Yes, indeed.
And here’s the finale.
Loxodonta on August 5, 2009 at 9:49 PM
…and now they are running the country into the ground.
thomasaur on August 5, 2009 at 9:50 PM
perfect!
cmsinaz on August 5, 2009 at 9:50 PM
The time has now come to a head when we clear minded thinking Americans will sit down these libtards pigs once in for all.
I say we need to vote all officials (who pass this HealthCare crap) out of office!!!!!!!.
hawkman on August 5, 2009 at 9:53 PM
Speaking of confronting LEO…in the case of a purely POLITICAL disruption I know enough to stand quietly and ask for arrest. That’s how LEO likes it; and enough of that will lead to LEO being instructed not to bother with arresting us, because of the backlog. Lookit how they handle the “undocumented” among us. That too is politically disruptive.
Chris_Balsz on August 5, 2009 at 9:58 PM
If he’s not careful it could end like this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4T5IBB4JQo&feature=related
Waterloooooooooooo……LOL!
Fighton03 on August 5, 2009 at 10:00 PM
You can disagree all you want it doesn’t change anything. LEO’s are the physical enforcement agency of the Federal and local government with regard to American citizens.
They will be the governments first use of force against those who disagree with the government. When the civilian populace refuses to be oppressed by a Law Enforcement Community constantly goaded by the Executive and Judicial branches look for violent conflict between the civilian populace and the LEO’s.
doriangrey on August 5, 2009 at 10:00 PM
I wonder if they found out about this guy through Obama’s new snitch service at the Ministry or Truth.
FloatingRock on August 5, 2009 at 10:01 PM
Breaking! Pelosi compares protestors to Nazis with Swastikas.
I think she may have crossed a line. This has gone way way to far.
Nelsa on August 5, 2009 at 10:02 PM
The ‘rats have been lying about it, tenfold since Ogabe was nominated.
Then some brave soul in the party said, “Hey, let’s just come right out and tell America what our real agenda is” and all he1l broke loose.
The left has to lie, their policies are so dangerous and destructive that telling the truth is impossible.
Bishop on August 5, 2009 at 10:03 PM
And the only thing that really scared them was their own shadows of shallowness………
Rovin on August 5, 2009 at 10:04 PM
This is going to be a war. I hope the politicians on “our side” grow some balls and get into the game.
echosyst on August 5, 2009 at 10:05 PM
… and showing up at the funerals of our brave soldiers and harassing their families.
Reminds me of that ancient Chinese proverb ……
Once scum, always scum.
fogw on August 5, 2009 at 10:06 PM
Just when you go to thinking that they can stoop no lower….
farright on August 5, 2009 at 10:07 PM
..he meant flag@WhiteHouse.Rove — it’s a super secret e-mail address left over from the Bush administration that Karl Rove used to receive instructions about how to take down the Democratic machine and where to get supplies of black peoples’ blood to drink.
VoyskaPVO on August 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM
That thought has never entered my mind.
thomasaur on August 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM
To crash72 — Just like a liberal, you can’t even get the email correct. Not to worry. I already sent flag@whitehouse.gov about 10 emails myself naming myself as a conservative, God forbid. And just like a liberal to not have any reasonable response, only name call (love the maggots) and threaten. Way to go, crash72. You show your inabilities. You don’t have anything you think you do. I can’t wait for a great American uprising to take this President down where he belongs — as the most inept President with the dumbest bunch of criminal cohorts in history — if he isn’t kicked out for not upholding the Constitution before that. You know, that piece of paper on which our great country was established? Surely you know about that. I hope you’re over 65. Surely not. You wouldn’t be this illogical.
doncow on August 5, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Alright Nancy..we get it, you communists don’t like Nazi’s. It won’t make us Libertarians like you any more…..b!tch!
Fighton03 on August 5, 2009 at 10:10 PM
I forgot to say that it includes actual video of Pelosi saying that the protestors are carrying swatikas.
And I think they CAN stoop lower….give them a day or two.
Nelsa on August 5, 2009 at 10:12 PM
I would love to hear some feed back on the snitch line. Deep in my heart I believe the Right has hijacked it.
Cindy Munford on August 5, 2009 at 10:12 PM
I could not be prouder of our little CT movement! Bob MacGuffie sent that memo to me, and I sent it to the tea party organizers all over the country, and that is how it all began. And as for the massive, well funded republican organization, I have been asking for WHO those people are since I spent $1200 of my own money to organize New Haven, CT’s Tax Day Tea Party, because I wouldn’t mind getting that money back. I had to pay a few bills late and eat at my mother’s house for a month so I could afford the sound system I rented. Astroturf my butt.
Tanya Bachand
Connecticut’s Right-Wing Extremist-in-Chief
tanyab on August 5, 2009 at 10:13 PM
She’s not God or a Messiah.
But she’s a whole lotta goodness.
There isn’t enough healthcare in the whole world to fix the hearts if she doesn’t run.
Hurricane Sarah
Sapwolf on August 5, 2009 at 10:21 PM
I’m positive that a small number of the protestors actually faught the Nazis during WWII and I am positive that it breaks their hearts for them to hear The Speaker of the House of the USA compare them to those which they fought and died for to defeat in protecting our liberty.
Nelsa on August 5, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Congratulations. Sorry about your money but hopefully there will be some gain out of it.
Cindy Munford on August 5, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Alinsky lives and he is Dear Leader.
d1carter on August 5, 2009 at 10:23 PM
I emailed a copy of the U.S. Constitution and The Bill Of Rights.
Now if I could only get an online copy of Michelles new book!
dhunter on August 5, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Has Senator Baucus been eating ice cream?
/Just asking
brtex on August 5, 2009 at 10:33 PM
If the insurance companies are ‘astroturfing’ these protesters, why are they giving them swastikas to carry around? Wouldn’t that kind of defeat the purpose of the ‘astroturfing’?
Pelosi is a frigging national treasure as the face of the Democratic Party.
Asher on August 5, 2009 at 10:33 PM
tanyab on August 5, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Quite a contrast between a Freedom Loving, Honest, Self employed, American citizen and mother
versus
a community organizing, punk politician, with no background, no birth certificate, an American hating liar!
Sarahcuda vs Pinnochio
dhunter on August 5, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Remember this? Rethuglican brownshirt thugs (wearing pocket protectors and Hush Puppies) stole the election in Florida
http://www.democrats.com/preview.cfm?term=Florida%20Recount
Del Dolemonte on August 5, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Sapworlf…gave me chill bumps, dude. thanks.
i am sooo dead…i just turned myself in for…snitchery.
good thing my taxes are in order.
this is a sad day in our country. i have never, ever seen an administration behave like the present one. from day one, since the Limbaugh references, he has had a chip on his shoulder the size of dallas. i’m afraid it’s about to get ugly folks.
nancy…i am ashamed that you breathe the same air that i do
sandlin71 on August 5, 2009 at 10:53 PM
We have found their Achilles heel…and they’ve responded in a predictable fashion, all according to Alinsky.
The Left and the Obama Administration (one in the same, I know) will use any lie, exercise any manner of repression, and attempt to ridicule any and all who have the audacity to believe the Obama Administration is a clear and present danger to these United States…and are willing to speak out loudly as to the same….and ask your neighbors to report you for not worshiping at the feet of the Chosen One.
Now, we’ve got move a bit higher and break the femur….both of them.
Stop it before we ourselves are stopped.
Chicago-style thuggery emanating from the White House must be crushed.
Sit on the sidelines and they will peel you off one at a time and you will one day recall, remember fondly, way back when wherein Americans had a First Amendment Right to dissent, to speak freely, to peaceably assemble and demand redress from government…and it will be a bitter memory since by sitting on the sidelines you enabled the First Amendment to be reduced to nothing but empty words on a long forgotten document.
coldwarrior on August 5, 2009 at 11:04 PM
What a joke.
The beltway GOP establishment couldn’t organize a bologna sandwich, let alone a nationwide protest movement.
Bruce in NH on August 5, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Thank you Tanya!
TruthToBeTold on August 5, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Baucus finds that Hussein is able to spew those Lies so eloquently! ………
BigMike252 on August 5, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Received this today in an email from Micael Steele and the RNC:
A DNC all party organizations email sent out yesterday.
”
From: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:03:58 PM
To: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Subject: DNC Statement on Republican Mob Rule
For Immediate Release
Date: August 4, 2009
Contact: DNC Press Office
Phone: 202-863-8148
Statement from DNC Communications Director Brad Woodhouse on the Republican Party and Allied Groups’ Mob Rule
The Republicans and their allied groups – desperate after losing two consecutive elections and every major policy fight on Capitol Hill – are inciting angry mobs of a small number of rabid right wing extremists funded by K Street Lobbyists to disrupt thoughtful discussions about the future of health care in America taking place in Congressional Districts across the country.
However, much like we saw at the McCain-Palin rallies last year where crowds were baited with cries of ‘socialist,’ ‘communist,’ and where the birthers movement was born – these mobs of extremists are not interested in having a thoughtful discussion about the issues – but like some Republican leaders have said – they are interested in ‘breaking’ the President and destroying his Presidency.
These mobs are bussed in by well funded, highly organized groups run by Republican operatives and funded by the special interests who are desperately trying to stop the agenda for change the President was elected to bring to Washington. Despite the headline grabbing nature of these angry mobs and their disruptions of events, they are not reflective of where the American people are on the issues – or the hundreds of thousands of thoughtful discussions taking place around kitchen tables, water coolers and in homes.
The right wing extremists’ use of things like devil horns on pictures of our elected officials, hanging members of Congress in effigy, breathlessly questioning the President’s citizenship and the use of Nazi SS symbols and the like just shows how outside of the mainstream the Republican Party and their allies are. This type of anger and discord did not serve Republicans well in 2008 – and it is bound to backfire again.”
coldwarrior on August 5, 2009 at 11:19 PM
Ten bucks says John McCain “steps up” and decries the rabble, winning him a round of Sunday interviews.
spmat on August 5, 2009 at 11:23 PM
What started out as a mob in 1775 turned into an army in 1776. What started out as a congress in 1787 turned into a politburo in 2009. What was it Jefferson said about revolutions?
NNtrancer on August 5, 2009 at 11:24 PM
The right wing extremists’ use of things like devil horns on pictures of our elected officials, hanging members of Congress in effigy…
oh yeah, like Palin’s picture made into the face of a vampire
or t-shirts saying “palin is a C-word”
or mcain’s picture distorted with wild fangs and blood
or bush as the joker
or palin hung in effigy on halloween
or trigs face disfigured
or…should i continue?
give me a break
it’s freedom of speech and freedom to assemble until the opposing team does it, then it’s disrespectful. sheesh
sandlin71 on August 5, 2009 at 11:25 PM
AllahPundit, Alan Colmes pushed the BS on O’Reilly tonight too
RightWinged on August 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM
I’m proudly part of the M.O.B. (Millions Outraged at Barack)
beatcanvas on August 5, 2009 at 11:33 PM
We found that out and we are finding many other things out that you criminal enemies of the state dissidents are doing by monitoring Hotair. Just why do you think we are in such a hurry to free up so much space at Gitmo?
DasObamaReich on August 5, 2009 at 11:35 PM
hey democrats!
Fascism much?
Pelayo on August 5, 2009 at 11:42 PM
I was going to post something against the ObamaCare plan, but I suddenly realized that no one’s told me what to type!
Dr. ZhivBlago on August 5, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Watch the video ” No Treats From Obama ”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XivhwO_zWWg
Texyank on August 5, 2009 at 11:49 PM
What are the Democrats going to do when their hoped for backlash lashes back in the wrong direction?
applebutter on August 6, 2009 at 12:00 AM
GitMO? As a Right Wing Camp? I’m SOOOOO there… diving is GREAT!
/sarc… kind of…
Romeo13 on August 6, 2009 at 12:01 AM
Ah… Yes… Dam Colonial Mobs (said in a bad brit accent…)
Won’t those Sons of Liberty ever be civilized?
Romeo13 on August 6, 2009 at 12:06 AM
Obama is like the Unfinished Symphony. His campaign has no ending…
I’d pay good money just so he’d shut the f**k up for a week.
Daggett on August 6, 2009 at 12:06 AM
I just joined Right Principles on Facebook, so I could say that MSNBC goaded me into it.
disa on August 6, 2009 at 12:12 AM
Isn’t he vacationing in a multimillion dollar home on the Cape? That should give you a bit of a break.
disa on August 6, 2009 at 12:13 AM
Something about a thirsty tree…
daesleeper on August 6, 2009 at 12:24 AM
Obama’s governance ideology:
— Alexander Fraser Tyler
I demand TRANSPARENCY concerning how much money and where it has gone that the democrats have gotten from GEORGE SOROS.
Baxter Greene on August 6, 2009 at 12:38 AM
“Former Community Organizer Condemns Community Organizing”: http://optoons.blogspot.com/2009/08/former-community-organizer-condemns.html
Mervis Winter on August 6, 2009 at 12:43 AM
Jesus, Baucus. Get a freaking room.
When does this tool come up for re-election? His GOP opponent should run that clip.
Since when does Montana vote for spray-tan metrosexuals?
guntotinglibertarian on August 6, 2009 at 12:55 AM
You are all now required to report to your block captains immediately to answer for your subversive behavior toward the one and only god almighty crap faced marxist fascist pig……
damn. I just can’t do it. I can’t even pretend to be as communist as Obama and crew.
/sigh
Spiritk9 on August 6, 2009 at 1:08 AM
Thanks, Sapwolf, for the stirring, wonderful dream in the midst of this socialist nightmare. I pray for Sarah and her family. And I pray that the tea party movement grows and grows until freedom is once again secured.
Christian Conservative on August 6, 2009 at 1:10 AM
CRAP!
I wish we knew how powerful he was BEFORE the election.
We could have just had him send a “Vote for McCain” instruction to 10 people!
blink on August 6, 2009 at 1:11 AM
Yeah… and Colmes didn’t blink when O’Reilly told him this…
This is just the beginning. Dig in folks. This won’t end till Pelosi is no longer the most pathetic House Majority Leader evah!
Upstater85 on August 6, 2009 at 2:53 AM
If this is the best the Democrats can come up with to back up their arguments, they really must be liars on steriods
mooseburger on August 6, 2009 at 4:00 AM
If they think we’re inciting, check out this and follow the links.
davidk on August 6, 2009 at 5:09 AM
Y’know, over the last year, several conservative bloggers were saying, “Oh come on, you’re violating Godwin’s Law and we simply can’t have that! No, no, no….”
The problem is, there have been so many apt comparisons along those lines with Obama and his state media. Look at Pelosi with her outrageous swastika comment. The press will back her all the way. There is literally no lie the press are not willing to tell for the sake of their leftist ideology.
The press will jump right in line and back Pelosi and the Dems 100%. If that isn’t a fascist media, I don’t know what is. It’s certainly in line with Chavez in Venezuela. The US is becoming more like Venezuela than anyone thought possible.
Django on August 6, 2009 at 5:19 AM
Fake, but accurate.
mankai on August 6, 2009 at 6:08 AM
This is a classic example of projection. The Democrats are so used to bullying people that they just assume that is all anyone else is doing. The very fact that people might really be upset is just beyond them.
Terrye on August 6, 2009 at 6:24 AM
From Horwitt’s Let Them Call Me Rebel:
“…in the spring of 1972, at Tulane University…students asked Alinsky to help plan a protest of a scheduled speech by George H. W. Bush, then U.S. representative to the United Nations – a speech likely to include a defense of the Nixon administration’s Vietnam War policies. The students told Alinsky they were thinking about picketing or disrupting Bush’s address. That’s the wrong approach, he rejoined, not very creative – and besides causing a disruption might get them thrown out of school. He told them, instead, to go to hear the speech dressed as members of the Ku Klux Klan, and whenever Bush said something in defense of the Vietnam War, they should cheer and wave placards reading, ‘The KKK supports Bush.’ And that is what they did, with very successful, attention-getting results.”
percysunshine on August 6, 2009 at 7:00 AM
Everyone seems to be missing the point…A lot of the people who are upset at these meeting are Democrats.
BruceB on August 6, 2009 at 7:02 AM
Now that I think about it….I am going to go to my next town hall meeting in a Che Guivera t-shirt and support healthcare reform…..dressed as Karl Marx….smoking a Cuban cigar….
percysunshine on August 6, 2009 at 7:06 AM
“Everyone seems to be missing the point…A lot of the people who are upset at these meeting are Democrats.”
Buyers remorse…It happens alot with used car salesmen.
percysunshine on August 6, 2009 at 7:09 AM
Would it help you if we each posted our home addresses?
Red State State of Mind on August 6, 2009 at 7:17 AM
That’s good, but let’s add an “S”
We are “MOBS” — Millions Opposed to Barack’s Socialism.
AZCoyote on August 6, 2009 at 7:21 AM
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