You may not ever see this on the evening news, but when you think of this, remember Florida. Bush, I think Rove, and definitely Tom Delay were there in Iowa this weekend. Remember that Delay was the one who sent the storm troopers
into the Florida campaign where the vote counting was taking place. No matter who you support as the Democratic nominee, this is a warning for all of us as to what we can expect in the coming campaign. I suspect this was a top-down planned event.
http://iowa.deanforamerica.com/node/view/2376
We have footage of the Young Republican invasion of the rally in Des Moines this afternoon! (The other Surprise Stormers, and not the good ones).
My sis just called from IA and said one of ours got video of the event, but didn't see any other media but the local Fox affiliate. Jeni filmed it all and Matt had to hop onstage to keep them from storming the stage as they shouted
"4 More Years".
Apparently, one of them pushed Joan Jett who responded: You can push me, but don't touch my guitar. (this guitar kills fascists...)
They then got the video to HQ, where Trippi thanked them. This should be quite useful for the campaign, and I wonder if it will get any news coverage.
I immediately thought of how they trashed the Wellstone memorial event with all their "manufactured outrage", and I expect to be hearing a lot of genuine outrage about these Young Republicans' methods of political activism!
Other blogs covering the storming of the Dean rally:
http://travis-bushman.dailykos.com/story/2004/1/17/23537/3980
http://www.needlenose.com/pMachineFree2.2.1/weblog.php?id=C0_16_1