Twitter marks the latest conservative protest flameout with ‘#AmericanSpringExcuses’

[DonViejo]

By Arturo Garcia
Friday, May 16, 2014 22:34 EDT

The conservative event dubbed “Operation American Spring” came and went without much of the uproar or call to arms organizers promised they would rain down upon President Barack Obama.

And after observing the “protest” fall flat in real time, several observers on Twitter used the tag #AmericanSpringExcuses to post their best guesses as to why the “10 to 30 million” viewers were supposed to expect never materialized in Washington D.C.

Some folks, of course, had prior obligations:

LOLGOP @LOLGOP

OBAMA MADE FRIDAY A WORK DAY #AmericanSpringexcuses #tcot

7:01 PM - 16 May 2014

Randall Flagg @VegasWalkinDude

#AmericanSpringexcuses But there's this huge clearance sale of Duck Dynasty merchandise at Walmart!

10:06 PM - 16 May 2014

Others might have supported the cause, but weren’t the traveling type to begin with:

Very Serious People™ @TheXclass

I was afraid to leave my bunker. #AmericanSpringexcuses

8:42 PM - 16 May 2014

Katie Halper @kthalps

#AmericanSpringexcuses it's so dangerous to be a white man in Obama's America, that they all stayed home.

9:57 PM - 16 May 2014

Others suspected technical difficulties:

Bill @tomservo10

Flame Out #AmericanSpringexcuses

9:53 PM - 16 May 2014

Nostradeptus @adept2u

#AmericanSpringexcuses Thought leaf blower was drone spent all day hiding in basement.

6:22 PM - 16 May 2014

And, hey, sometimes people just get derailed by the new and unknown:

Red Pill America @RedPillAmerica

#AmericanSpringExcuses Saw a black person. Ran away.

1:55 PM - 16 May 2014

Patrick @QuadCityPat

I was almost there, we stopped, drank some juice boxes and now I'm gay according to Alex Jones #AmericanSpringexcuses

8:13 PM - 16 May 2014

(Public service announcement: Any Jones fans who might find themselves lovestruck might find luck — and love — at the Infowars dating site.)

Of course, the attention was so disproportionate to the actual attendance on Friday that we wouldn’t blame you for wondering how it all turned out.

Lizz Winstead ✔ @lizzwinstead

Is #Obummer stiil president? Did it work? #WereTheyTreadOn #OperationAmericanSpring

10:03 PM - 16 May 2014

But our Senior Freedom Correspondent tells us that judging the event’s “success” depends how you look at it:

TBogg @tbogg

#AmericanSpringExcuses There WERE ten million of us, you just couldn't see us because of the camo.

3:48 PM - 16 May 2014

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[mercuryblues]

1. There would have

Been 10 million if the personhood law had been passed.

Every sperm is sacred.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. There's an Info wars dating site????

"must have own tinfoil" would be an important attribute, I guess.