Excellent! Happy that Freepers were in Martha's Vineyard to Freep Hillary.Firebrand's new "after action" thread is now posted HERE:
Looking forward to report and photos.
Free Republic at Martha's Vineyard---Hillary Freep
August 17, 2003 | me
Posted on 08/17/2003 2:40 PM PDT by firebrand
When we first got there, I checked out the line. It wasn't that long. But people were holding strange cardboard squares that said funny things like "500," "600," etc. These squares bore no relation to the number of people in line. Someone explained that they represented the number of tickets. Oh. But it didn't seem that these ghost ticket holders ever showed up. ??? Never mind . . .
There were two women near the door to the bookstore holding antiwar signs. They said "Hillary: Why did you vote for an unjust war?" That was fine. They were on the bookstore side of the street and we were on the other side. But then the police decided all protesters had to be together across the street from the bookstore. So we had lefties right in the middle of us, confusing the message.
Then one really obnoxious character decided to be the first one the people in cars saw as they passed the bookstore. Clever of her. At a fast glance it looked like an 8-person pro-Hillary demonstration, instead of 5 freepers who had broken their cookies to get there and 3 left-wing nutcases.
I thought the two groups should have been kept in separate places, but the cops did not agree with me. Thus we were all smooshed together.
We got about half and half positive and negative feedback, I would say. The Vineyard is pretty liberal. One man said, "You must be from Nantucket." So if you're planning a vacation on a Cape Cod island, make it Nantucket, not the Vineyard. We got the usual single digits, thumbs-down, and thumps-up.
It was a polite, intelligent crowd, and Martha's Vineyard is a beautiful, quaint island.
We spotted the Creamsicle-colored pantsuit with capri-length pants as the Fashion Victim exited the store, and gave her some resounding boos that completely downed out any cheers from others.
A fine finale for the last book signing. What was that slogan again? Oh yeah, We Are Everywhere.
And here are the pix:
Don't laugh...
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| Posted by firebrand On 08/17/2003 5:40 PM EDT with 21 comments |
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