Posted on 09/05/2009 9:58:55 AM PDT by GVnana
Yeehaw!!! Amazing rally outside Mt. Vernon!
September 4, 2009
We keep saying it, and you might doubt how it could continue to be true, but we just had one of the greatest stops of the “Tea Party Express.”
The setup for this incredible event was quite strange. We had been approached several weeks ago by people outside of the tiny community of Mt. Vernon, Texas about whether we would consider doing a quick “whistle stop” rally.
The catch: it would be at a rest area, located at mile marker 143 on I-30.
We agreed to do the stop, figuring we’d do a quick touch-and-go stop and shake the hands of the 10 or 20 people who *MIGHT* show up. And if it was just a man and his wife and their two kids, so be it. If nothing else it would make for a good restroom stop.
So imagine our shock and awe as we pulled up to the rest area, saw a contingent of State Troopers and their vehicles with lights flashing and a giant crowd of people behind them.
As we pulled further in we were guided by the troopers who cleared a path through the crowd and then several hundred (estimates ranged from 550 – 800 people) gave us the warmest greeting you could possibly imagine as we got off the bus.
We didn’t have our sound system or stage, or anything like it. So we found a pickup truck, hopped up on it, found a person in the crowd with a bullhorn and had the greatest impromptu rally you could ever imagine.
To those shameless liars on the Left who are smearing and demeaning the tea party movement and calling it Astroturf, we say this: YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED!
It is not the tea party supporters who are showing up with professionally printed signs from Obama’s political wing – no, that is the astroturfing efforts that YOU have engineered.
Today, like every other day of this tour, we have been greeted by real, everyday Americans who have showed up with homemade signs in their hands, and a passion and love for this country in their hearts.
Here’s the scene from a rest area on the side of a road at Mile Marker 143. These people touched and inspired all of us aboard the Tea Party Express in a way they will never fully appreciate:
Stories like this get me pumped!
It really is TOO bad the Main Streams aren’t following this.
What GREAT news and wonderful story!!!
Alright! Keep up the good work.
Looks like you're headed to Clintonland.
That is awesome. They obviously got the word out to folks in that area. Great photo.
Rural America: The backbone of the Country bump!
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