A little perspective on the Teabagger's Party in the Desert :

[hedgehog]

I've heard numbers like "thousands", "2000", "8000" people turned out to hear Sarah. It looks like most of these people were retired and drove out in RV campers or chartered buses to see her. In other words, these aren't people with a lot to do and a lot of money to do it with.

Now - bear with me here - one of my guilty pleasures is a show called "Clean House". Niecy Nash is the producer and the gimmick is that she finds people with incredibly cluttered houses, gets them to sell their junk at a yard sale, then her crew cleans and redecorates the house. Last night's rerun featured a house in Cincinnati that would make the Collier Brothers blanch.

Now - here's the punch line - 5000 people turned out on a Saturday to paw through the yard sale to get rid of all this junk.

So, to repeat, maybe 8000 people came out to see Sarah,



but 5000 turned out to see Niecy: