Judging by the incoherent ramblings that Michelle Malkin produced today, it seems that her tea-bag hangover has not yet lifted its cloudy influence over her reasoning skills. Someone should have advised her to breathe through her nose.
She begins yet another useless column by asserting that the tea-bagging crowd exceeded a million, because
When left-wing activists make crowd estimates, the algorithm is: Six figures = one million. An incomplete survey of newspaper accounts and organizer estimates pegged the Tea Party protest population at a minimum of 250,000. We can now, therefore, officially call it the Million Taxpayer March.
So 250,000 is now a million. Ok, I'll bite... But here's her reasoning about liberal counts:
But unlike recent anti-war and pro-illegal immigration rallies padded with union workers, college students, and homeless people, the Tax Day Tea Party demonstrations featured small business owners, working taxpayers, and families. This wasn’t a weekend or holiday, mind you. A quarter million people took time off in the middle of the work week to raise their voices against reckless taxing and bipartisan spending.
Apparently union workers, college students, and the homeless don't quite make the cut to the Tea-Bag Real American Auditions. Which might go a long way in explaining why the GOP is losing its way in the political world these days. She goes on to say that the MSM missed the point; the tea-baggers vented their frustration at the GOP just as harshly as they did at the Democrats. The pictures and soundbites thereof beg to differ.
But, as if by divine intervention, her rambling came to close with remarkable insight.
As one of the most popular Tea Party signs read: "You can’t fix stupid, but you can vote it out."
You're right, Michelle. We just did.