Scheherazade
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ORIGINAL: HeathenMa1am The show was pretty funny, but the whole Tea bag hat thing just made me cringe. I agree with all the policy positions Mahr said he was for: ending the bailouts, getting the frack out of Iraq, etc. But I've BEEN to a tea party protest, to man the Libertarian Party booth and try to get people to vote for me. And I did not see what the media says is there. The event was held on tax day in the middle of the afternoon on a weekday, and I admit the crowd was largely retired people, but who else would go to an event held during work hours? It was a sedate crowd camped out on lawn chairs, and it was the same kind of crowd who would show up to any free hot dog event in the park. There were a few signs that made me scratch my head -- what exactly is a Bastiat? who knows -- but the day before, the local paper said a group called Crash the Tea Party was planning to show up with embarassing, misspelled signs to discredit the tea partiers, so that was probably them. I did not see hate, anger, racial prejudice, or much of anything beyond a lot of my fellow candidates circulating and shaking hands, while the voters tried to score free food. Free food ? I knew these parties were good for something.
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