Baton Rouge Independence Day Tea Party, UDPATED
posted at 10:19 pm on July 4, 2009 by Laura
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The Baton Rouge Tea Party folks did a fabulous job on the Independence Day Rally. In spite of the brain-melting heat there was a turnout of around 500 people, according to an unofficial police estimate. Meaning I asked a cop and he took a wild guess. There wasn’t a good angle to get the entire crowd, but here are a few photos so you can judge the crowd size for yourselves. About 40 yards down from the steps was another crowd of 75-100 people in a grassy area with shade. There were also some pretty good signs.
One of the first speakers was a woman who lived in Cuba when Castro took power. She gave a very sobering talk about parallels between what happened in Cuba and what’s happening here today. Other speakers covered cap-and-tax, health care reform (with a nice plug for Cato), and a heads up on how to get free activist training so we can be more effective rabblerousers.
The GOP was attempting to recruit and failing miserably. What do you make of that?
Update: Shocking – or, not really so shocking, but it should be – the Baton Rouge news outlets did not report on this gathering, even though at least one station was there. As of this writing, the only news on the web for this tea party is this post.
Imagine, for a moment, 500 anti-war activists going unreported. Or 500 illegal alien advocates. It would never happen.
Well. They can ignore us, but we won’t go away. To the contrary, I received an email with info for a protest in about six weeks. I’ll be there.
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GOP recruiting is hampered by one little detail.
The GOP helped get us here.
Mew
acat on July 4, 2009 at 10:37 PM
One is either part of the problem or is part of the solution…if I recall this old 1960’s tidbit.
The GOP is part of the problem. Too busy backbiting, too busy trying to stake out territory for individuals, and not very much effort given to finding common ground…other than Obama is a train wreck.
That is no way to gain a majority.
Letters and emails and any other effective means to communicate with the “leadership” on the Right…even stopping in to their local offices when they are in town. But, not just complaining nor just pointing out what the other side is doing or not doing. Instead we should be providing alternatives, offering solutions, making suggestions to improve the movement on the Right….you write one, then get four or five of your friends or relatives to write one, or the same…and get the word out, to the top.
Make them pay attention. If an elected member of Congress gets one or two letters…pretty much will ignore them. Get a few dozen and they might tend to see a problem that needs fixin’…and with a few solutions offered, perhaps they can staff it out, get it on the floor or in the well. A few hundred, or more…then they know that something is amiss…build on it.
Until that happens, from us, the talking heads and pundits will call the shots by the mere fact of their visibility, even though they are all pretty much sequestered inside the Beltway and out of touch with the rest of the country.
Part of the problem or part of the solution?
Each of us must ask and answer that one for ourselves before we can ask it of the “party” or of our “leadership.”
coldwarrior on July 4, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Detail: The MSM insists on repeatedly telling the sheeple that “The GOP is part of the problem..”
So.. your recommendation to counter the “lie, repeated often enough..” ??
CaveatEmpty on July 5, 2009 at 5:57 PM
If the MSM refuses to actually report facts, then who is left to do so?
Us.
coldwarrior on July 5, 2009 at 6:16 PM
coldwarrior on July 5, 2009 at 6:16 PM
See the update… I can’t believe this protest wasn’t reported by the MSM. I figured they’d downplay it, but to omit it entirely is pretty shocking.
Laura on July 5, 2009 at 10:00 PM
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Ed Morrissey on July 5, 2009 at 10:16 PM