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No,the reaction to the protesters would still be the same,no matter which convention they demonstrate at.That's the whole point! The Dems are always identified with the protesters,whether or not they or the GOPers are the ones being protested.

"Mull that over and then we'll talk again."

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Presumptious to assume that that angle had not occurred to me. The nets control most of what a significant % of the American public sees, witness Iraq coverage. If they choose to do so they can make the NYPD and any other crowd control unit (NG) look like the proto-typical jack-booted thugs. And they can do it with Bush/Cheney posters in the background while invoking the "constitution trashing" elements of the "Bush" Patriot Act. I'm not so naive as to believe that the NY based liberal press would not do this.

In support of this theory...an earlier post on this same thread had a freeper with one foot already out of the country because of how he perceived NYPD outside his hotel when he visited a while ago. He saw it as a step toward a police state, and he's on our side.

There are a lot of regionalist and provincial people on FR,who hate N.Y.C.,see this nation as a "police state",and tinfoil is their usual day and night wear.So that anecdotal story doesn't hep your argument at all.

The media were overtly sympathetic to the cretinous protesters in '68.They always shall be on the wrong side.But the question here is,will the American populace,see the lunatic protesters for what they are,or see them as sane and correct about getting rid of President Bush.This isn't 1968;this isn't even the same world as September 10,2001!

Perhaps you think that I'm giving the American populace too much credit in the intellect department,but in this case,I do think I'm correct.Seeing the wannabe hippies,isn't going to make them vote for Kerry.