Santorum in Tacoma: Protesters and a Glitter Bomb

http://blogs.wsj.com ^ | 02/15/2012 | Danny Yadron

[massmike]

It was predictable that Rick Santorum — or any Republican presidential candidate — would be met with protests here Monday night as he spoke outdoors, down the street from an Occupy encampment and near the entrance to a public university.

Shortly after the former senator from Pennsylvania began addressing a receptive crowd, a group of young protesters in the front row began chanting slogans such as “go away” and “right-wing bigot,” a reference to Mr. Santorum’s opposition to gay marriage, one of them said afterward. The surging GOP-candidate then spent the next hour battling the vocal minority.

“What they represent is true intolerance,” Mr. Santorum said. “I don’t think they’re a bigot because they disagree with me.”

He added later, “I understand their frustration. For three years they haven’t been able to find work, they have a president that doesn’t care about them… Their president has left them behind, but we won’t.”

It did little to quell the protesters, and before it was over, at least two of them were dragged away by law enforcement officials. After Mr. Santorum finished speaking, another covered him in a blizzard of glitter, known as a “glitter bomb.”

[apoliticalone]

I could be wrong here, but in my view I don’t see the glitter attacks as being especially political, and instead about a frustrated society that is fed up with establishment owned politicians that forget to make the USA their number one priority.

No one could get close enough to put graffiti on Obama or they would. But now they want to turn throwing graffiti on any politician into a major crime. Welcome to the new USA where there are the sheeple and then there are the royalty.

[apoliticalone]

For the record make that confetti, not graffiti, not that anyone gives a hoot.