It was very well done, Rob. Here's the shots that I took: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thatedeguy/sets/7215…

I hope one of the speakers didn't include the nut job Steve Cates, he set back the ideals of conservatism 50 years each time he comes up with yet another conspiracy theory about WSI. He is a joke (and I have interacted with Steve and feel comfortable stating this).

It was nice to finally meet you too, Rob. And you're wonderful family.

I'll have to keep an eye out and see if I can't make it to the Fargo rally.

I wish I could have met you Rob… We were sitting on the ground, to the left facing the steps/speakers' stand, etc… There just didn't seem to be enough time to run up there, but we sure heard you!!

Also, I truly enjoyed hearing Kevin Cramer's speech….was really impressed.

Actually, Dino, it was refreshingly non-partisan. Every body got razzed equally.

Don't bother donkey. Dino is incapable of doing anything logical, except to blame Republicans, because he has an IQ of 60, well below the normal level for mental retardation.

Dino brings up a good point. There is a lot to complain about, but until the elected members of the republican party govern as though America actually has two political parties, nothing will ever change.

…until the elected members of the republican party govern as though America actually has two political parties…

Wrong, little groupie! It's the Dems who want totalitarian, one Party rule; the communist Party.

No jack booted dhs agents in sight. The capitol security was on hand but did a great job. Of course they weren't really needed.

There was supposed to be a counter protest but outside of one idiot who drove through the parking lot honking his horn there wasn't a counter protest that I saw.

It's about damn people people woke-up to this Bolshevik PT Barnum and his rotten, anti-American agenda. As Levin said "he's taken a wrecking-ball to this society"

And Obama thinks everyone is as stupid as the people that voted for him. He makes the loosest, most general statements possible, to attempt to imply that Bush is responsible for all the rampant spending because it started under him.

He lies and changes his story at-will on everything from his cabinet's ethics to whether or not he ever met with Blago to discuss his senate seat, meanwhile the press is occupied with stories on his puppy vetting process and how Barack likes to play basketball.

Obama wants the state to be your mother and father- and it's his right to lie to you if he wishes… just like your parents when you were five. Government will be one you come to for money, ask permission when you want to think or speak, and who handles all your finances for you since of course you can't be trusted.

If it was non-partisan you would have had these ridiculous events when bush was spending us into this recession while allowing Wall Street to raid the Treasury.

No one is scared. I don't care if this country dissolves, remember? Nothing would please me more than to see it bankrupt and split into pieces. "United" has never been applied more erroneously.

Rob brings up a good point. This was NOT a republican event.. It was a conservative event. The Republicans got picked on plenty–Rob made some good points about Gov. Hoeven (very appropriate we were sitting and standing in his back yard…

What a turn out!

There must be at least a quarter of a thousand people in that picture alone!

If Bush had quadrupled the national debt in the first few months of his administration, we probably would have!

See, that's why you people deserve the descriptive term "stem" though in this case "retard" might be more appropriate.

Show me where Obama spent $33 trillion in 6 months (debt is $11 trillion now, quadrupling would necessitate adding at least $33 trillion). Bush, however, did spend us $6 trillion more into debt in good times, before the Fed had to start pumping trillions into the financial markets to keep them solvent.

Yes, you people are some stupid stems.

without the liberal parts of the country most of you cretins would be living in some feudal hell and still shitting outdoors.

But at least we would have the Freedom to do that. You're issue is that you believe that it was the liberal handouts that brought us out of the "fuedal hell". If you've ever done any studying of fuedal societies, you'd know that in a fuedal society, the people were required to give a majority of their earnings (or what they produced) to the local lord in exchange for protection and peace. If they didn't do that, they were thrown in a dungeon somewhere. In the end, they were taxed so heavily that they all depended on handouts from the lords and ladies in order to keep their families fed. Thus was born the first liberal outreach program.

Don't try and feed me your bull****. And don't try and compare the free society that we strive for with the model liberal society. They don't jive.

There has never been a culture, society, country, city, town, village or any assemblage of humans living together that has survived by an every-man-for-himself paradigm. People who insisted on pursuing that way of life were ostracized and cast out to be eaten by predators.

The only reason you stems can afford to pretend to want such a culture is because you are spoiled by the historical work of the collective who has made it possible for you to become selfish and ignorant. Like toddlers who believe the world is their oyster and they get the pearl.

Working together, cooperating for the greater good, is not "handouts". It's how civilized people behave. You, stems, are not meant for the civilized world.

spoiled by the historical work of the collective

Did you just call the liberals Borg?

Working together, cooperating for the greater good, is not "handouts". It's how civilized people behave.

You're right, of course. Working together, cooperating for the greater good is not "handouts". But shouldn't I get the choice as to whether I want to work with your or cooperate with you? Where's the choice when the government taxes my money and then decides where it will have the "greatest good"? That's not civilized at all. That is Feudal…

to keep things from crashing

Great! When are they gonna start doing something about it? Last I checked, it's only gotten worse since January.

they LOST

By "they" I'm going to assume you mean the republicans. And no, they didn't lose because of Bush (although he certainly didn't help much), they lost because they ran a moderate for a candidate.

they sent most of it to the rich, the corporate and Wall Street

And I suppose that you're a pauper? And you have no investments? You don't get to call the kettle black, Mr. Pot.

Time to pay up or try and unseat my guys

Oh, don't you worry. We'll all be paying up soon enough. And come 2010, you'll see some things start shifting.

and would be if people like me were in power

Perhaps you should move to somewhere that people like you are in power… Maybe Cuba? Or perhaps Venezuela. Or Iran? I can think of lots of places where the Elite go about talking equality while they tax the people to feed the government.

comes from being brainwashed and simple.

Underestimating your enemy is the surest way to lose.

hey dinorob youve been in total control for almost three years….

He also has to deal with the fucking republicans undermining him, stopping him from doing what needs to be done

Must be more powerful than you're letting on to if they can do that when the dems have a 60 vote majority…

make 30 years of cumulative bad conservative economic policy go away instantly

30 years?!? Obviously, Clinton, Kennedy, et all were largely ineffective then? What makes you think Obama will be able to help the situation if they couldn't?

Why did they lose in 2006

I thought we were talking about presidential elections? Even so, a few local landslides does not make a national landslide. There are certain areas that are prone to blind voting that usually come out as overwhelming victories for each party, so you have to discount that somewhat.

Bring plenty of money for security

I won't need to bring any. The government won't be taking 30% of it anymore, so I'll have a surplus. You see, if you would cut the governmental apron strings and accept that people are capable of ethical, moral living without the government telling them to, then we wouldn't need all those unnecessary programs that you're so fond of.

What will be their platform?

How about "you thought we were bad, look what Obama did!"

There's no new ideas coming out of the filthy republicans, just old ones that FAILED.

Who said anything about the republicans? They aren't much better anymore. I think the swing will be more towards the unaffiliated or third parties.

He's still got 3.5 years to create so much policy that you'll hate you'll go NUTS. Your hopes of further decline will backfire as people in pain vote for MORE socialism, not less. In a way I wanted McCain to win so we could have a much more violent backlash against conservatives. Things would have gotten FAR worse considering the indifference of conservatives to peoples' suffering. I'm thinking the street filled with poor people holding tire irons to use on rich Wall Street conservatives. I envisioned conservative churches as firewood for the newly poor. Yes, I am twisted but honest.

You're right, they do tend to vote for more socialism. That's largely because the socialist left has done everything that they can to make them dependent upon it. And, really, do you want those weaklings that can't do anything for themselves and instead depend on the government to do it for them, on your side?

It's not indifference. It's an expectation that they behave as adults and become independent. It's a recognition that the ones that won't help themselves can't be helped at any cost. But you folks keep sinking the money into them anyways. Making career welfare cases is all you've done.

I'd love to see the left riot. I don't think they have it in them, however. Just don't have the determination for it. Well, that, and they've been trained to depend on the government for that. Perhaps you should ask Uncle Obama for a little military intervention for you. A couple of tanks ought to take care of wall st pretty quickly, don't you think?

hey dinorob youve been in total control for almost three years….

There was a one vote majority in the Senate and a republican president.

You are a stupid stem.

30 years?!?

Yes, 30 years. For 30 years both parties pursued a conservative economic agenda. The Fed was run by a conservative since 87. The dems were pulled to the right because they people wanted that. The dems kept losing elections so went along with the republicans who controlled the country for most of the period since 1980. The people are to blame for being seduced by conservative. That's what makes their suffering so enjoyable to me.

The tea parties make me gleeful in that they're simply people with a bad case of buyer's remorse and I'm not talking Obama. They're pissed that they were taken in by the conservative message that they could "have it all" and no one had to pay for it. Now they're FUCKED. Their kids are FUCKED. And if they manage to force civic society (government) to wither with their calls for reduced government spending they'll lose even more. The country will begin to look like an ineffective, brutal, South American-style shithole which it's well on its way to becoming. The people will lose services, protections and opportunities that they took for granted and the top 10% will ride herd over the rest.

That's how civilizations looked before liberalism brought equality and egalitarianism through policies that leveled the playing field. Teabaggers are flirting with disaster. You already hear complaints of public school cuts, even the cutting of fireworks displays on the 4th. FUCK EM. Let the people pay through the nose for private schools. Bring on that every-man-for-himself culture and let the brutality begin.

The world under savage conservatism is an ugly place. Uglier even than the communist block countries. No one working together for the common good, just a land mass of people who happen to all live there. Fuck thy neighbor will rule the day. A nation of pimps and whores who don't do a thing without a financial incentive. That's how most cons live already.

It's an expectation that they behave as adults and become independent.

You stems all say that until you have an handicapped kid (Palin), find yourself in need, see your parents needing health care (you all take Medicare and unemployment and anything else you can take from the collective). Then you run for help.

What is wrong with people who don't want to contribute to the greater good but gladly take from it?

I don't think they have it in them, however.

Go ask Stalin and Castro how the people can be whipped up to destroy the capitalists. But that won't happen here unless things get really bad. You think that a huge spike in poverty is going to help conservatives??
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The Dems have total control of everything right now you brain dead asshole.

Our system is designed to give the minority some voice, that's how the republicans held up the stimulus and got it weakened. We didn't get 60 votes until yesterday. And, Obama has this need, as Clinton did, to reach across the aisle. I wouldn't. I wouldn't piss on a republican on fire much less try to work with one.

Watch out. We're going to cram as much up your ass as the moderate democrats will allow. Watch and see how much the country is changed despite the roadblock set up by republicans. You want to cajole the democrats for not changing the world in 6 months? In 6 months they passed the stimulus (without republicans), passed the SCHIP legislation (without republicans), got cap n trade past the House, are working on a huge overhaul of healthcare that will probably include a publicly run option and will be bringing much more of that kind of legislation up in the next session.

You should all get your passports and fucking leave. That's what you told us to do when you had the wheel and were driving us over a cliff.

Oh, do enjoy watching your home values drop or remain stagnant for the next 10-15 years. When you look at your 401k statements, remember who you voted for that promised you great things with your "individual" account that their deregulation fucked you out of. Who needs pensions or unions they said. It's better to be radically individual because you're smarter than everybody else and you'll do better. Now 90% of you are FUCKED out of a good part of your retirement AND your biggest investment, your house. But you were "independent".

Turning away from the civic and embracing the corporate was a big mistake. Radical individualism fucked you too.

"We covered the earlier tea party in Bismarck and did not see a reason to cover the same event all over again. I'm sure there are going to be many "tea parties" in the future and we will not be covering all of them either. Repeating the same information over and over again is not news."

With that logic, they wouldn't cover the Republican or Democrat conventions. Or the state basketball championships. Or the World Series. Or the Super Bowl.

Why not just be honest about it? They didn't cover the tea parties because they're a bunch of liberals and they're too scared to give this movement any attention.

This is called "whistling by the graveyard."

Darn those privately owned conglomerates for giving us stuff they think will increase their listenership/readership/viewer ratings and thereby increase their profits from advertising!

Is that anyway to run a free market?

Harrumph

It's all about the Benjamin's you kowtowing slave to whatever your gop overlords demand.

Little parrot: Any facts to back up your claims? Leftie newspapers and news stations are losing readers and viewers due to their unbalanced coverage

Are you some kind of retard? It's not because of unbalanced coverage, it's cause of the internet.

DINO – Too bad your guys are criminals that should be in work camps (and would be if people like me were in power)…

You'd be killed with a judicious quickness if you were in power.

Not gonna happen anyways. You're a clown.

Fuck thy neighbor will rule the day.

With the Democrats and Obama in power, it already is.

Now why don't you continue crying about others being "greedy" as you demand their wealth while crowing about the destruction of the country that you attribute to others. You're a broken hateful record.