OK, I get it. A lot of these Rally to Restore Sanity signs were clever. I even enjoyed reading them.
But what was the point?!?
Come on, lib'ruls, let's think Marketing 101 here. What's your call to action here? This rally was the equivalent of a redneck with a "Honk If You Like Beer" bumper sticker. Yes, you have reached a large like-minded demographic, but what of it? You got a nice feeling when Bubba honked at you, but after that?.... Exactly. Nothing.
Jon Stewart proved he could write a note on a napkin and attract 200,000+ people to Washington, DC and out-rally Glenn Beck. Good for him. But what have you participants proven? That you can make clever signs that don't mean anything? Good for you, you irrelevant overeducated weenies! Now move to the back of democracy's line.
The aphorism is incorrectly stated as: "If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything." It is correctly stated as: "You better stop believing you're so freaking clever and fight for your liberal ideals with everything you've got before Bubba Twelve-Guage and Grandpa No-Gubument-Medicare shove their insane worldview down your smug throats."
It's past time that we Gen-Xers and Gen-Yers realized that politics is a no-rules brawl, not a fashion show. We're not showing up with a knife at a gun fight, we're showing up to a war with a copy of our senior thesis. Until we learn from Republicans and get mean, angry, and settle for nothing less than victory, we liberals deserve to get our asses kicked.
By Ryan J. Reilly
October 31, 2010 | Talking Points Memo
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