Before I say anything more, I want to explain.
My parents have been life-long Democrats. They live in a very rural town and year after year they've worked for Democratic candidates. This last year they even went to Colorado to help get out the vote for Obama.
So where did they go wrong? What caused them to end up in Searchlight?
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OK, it's not what you think. My parents are in their seventies and are not about to join up with the Tea Party Movement.
They are true-blue, letter writing, phone calling, get-out-the-vote canvassing Democrats who live in southern Utah.
Today, they went to Las Vegas to see a televised opera from the Met (yeah, I know, it's kind of weird).
Anyway, the Opera was not working due to mechanical difficulties so they got on the road early to go camping in Joshua Tree.
Which took them through - Searchlight Nevada.
Right at the peak of the rabble.
They said their were thousands of people wandering about aimlessly. Traffic backed up for two hours.
Needless to say, the Tea Party movement did not make any coverts out of my parents.