[Regulator]

Thanks for posting this. I live in Santa Cruz, and about all they probably had downtown was a demonstration against Bush or the war or Tibet or whatever...But there were a lot of flags hanging out of windows and decks...the leftists might sense being a little more surrounded than they think!

[moodyskeptic]

thanks, all of you Freepers, for the ping.

The countdown to Nov. election will be full of liberal vitriol directed at Bush and our military. It will get ugly. The parade proved to me that invisible patriots in SoCal are all around us, and they look identical to the moderates and left. Kids with piercings, tatoos, shaved heads and longhairs, yuppies and blacks and latins and asians and... everybody. They were cheering our troops in direct opposition to popular fashion.

Heartening.