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Consider this an open thread for the David Letterman Protest Rally taking place today from 430-630pm outside the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway in New York. 

If you are going, bring your cameras and take as many pics as your camera can hold, including video of the protest.  IMMEDIATELY get to a computer as fast as you can and load the video up to YouTube and the pics up to Flickr or Facebook.  The MSM won’t cover this protest, so it’s up to you to do the job journalists stopped doing when the MSM became Dr. Utopia’s State TV and Ministry of Propaganda. 

We have absolutely no idea what’s going to happen at the Protest Rally today.  

There could be hundreds of people, or there could be thousands, or just dozens. We have no idea how many will show up.  There was not a lot of time to organize this, so we’ll see if the Tea Party spirit prompts people to turn out and make their voices heard in large numbers today.  

Right now, we’re thinking about the ramifications of a lot of things, including:

(1) Will Republicans follow through on this, or will they fall into old habits, get distracted, and move onto other things before Letterman is really raked over the coals, Imus-style?  Concern trolls have been everywhere the last day or so, insisting “I agree Letterman is disgusting and was wrong,  but I think it is time to move on as we really need to talk about healthcare now”.  That’s what a concern troll does:  it’s a person working from a script with an agenda to de-motivate you on the Internets (that series of pipes and tubes, of which you are viewing now).

Concern trolls are expertly deployed by the Left to dampen Republican (and moderate Dem, as the case may be) spirit.  Concern trolls breed Eeyores, those people who say things like “It’s hopeless!  We might as well stop because they are never going to fire Letterman!  We are wasting our time and it is better to just do nothing and complain about things quietly to myself!”  

One of the most glaring instances of the difference between Republicans and Democrats happened back in August of last year on the first pub crawl Democrats for McCain did with the Chicago Young Republicans here. We actually did this in Boystown, the way we always did pub crawls to recruit volunteers for Team Hillary efforts, and we were so surprised we got about 25 CYRs (all straight) to come out to Boystown with us and join forces to recruit volunteers for McCain (netting about 50 solid volunteers, in the most unlikely of places according to the MSM).  Well, the bars were packed that night and at almost every one of them the CYRs would take a look at the line and say, “Oh, that’s too long.  I can’t wait in that line.  Let’s do something else.” And we would remind them, “The line moves fast.  This bar is the biggest in town, with a lot of people in the 30-50 age group we want, who would be most likely to give McCain a shot if we talk about tax issues, spending, and McCain’s stance about earmarks”.  But, the CYRs never wanted to wait for anything, and would instead want to go to a small bar down a sidestreet that was empty (which equals lowered potential for recruits) than wait in a 10 minute line to get into a bar where we had the potential to talk to over 1,000 people all in one place.  

Consistently, this is something we, as moderate Dems, notice Repubicans do.  As a group, they don’t understand the value of patience or persistence.  They give up if there is a long line, or get distracted down a side street instead of focusing on the main event.  Will that happen today, where people start listening to the MSM “to just stay home, this is over, he said he was sorry, move on” or will they stand their ground and turn out to decry sexism and misogyny and stand up for Palin?  We’ll see at 430pm EST. 

(2) If the numbers are large, in New York City, of all places, Republicans need to realize just how special Sarah Palin is.  There is no other Republican who can motivate people to fight like she can.  Could you imagine people organizing a boycott and protest in response to an attack on Bobby Jindal, Charlie Crist, John Huntsman, or Mitt Romney?  That’s not going to happen.  Ever. There are a lot of Republicans we know here in Chicago who say things like, “Palin will get attacked.  Tina Fey will come out of retirement and end her campaign.  Palin will become a joke.”  We remind them of what the Left did to Ronald Reagan prior to the 1980 campaign.  They called him stupid.  They made jokes about him and the monkey he co-starred with in that Bonzo movie.  They said he was just a lightweight, not very good actor.  And now he’s a Republican icon.  

Well, we believe you’ve got a new icon in Palin, but most Republicans don’t realize it yet.  Not only does she have charisma and appeal to regular Americans, but she motivates people like us, moderate Democrats, to stand up on her behalf (something she does much, much better than Reagan ever did).  She also comes packaged with WONDERFUL natural marketing potential as a candidate:  a red/white/blue moose decal everywhere and other Alaskan-themed images, at once reminiscent of Teddy Roosevelt and also the American pioneer spirit…but also the kind of personality and vitality that would allow her to use a rockin’ song like “We’re Not Gonna Take It” as her campaign theme…because after 4 years of socialism, that is exactly what Americans are going to want to hear, and Palin’s exactly who more than half of them are going to want to hear it from. 

A big showing for Palin today would be a surprise for many people…and could, four years from now, be seen as the germination of her presidential bid…in the same way that the MSM likes to use Dr. Utopia’s address to the DNC in 2004 as the launch of his own campaign so far in advance. 

There is something truly special about Sarah Palin the MSM and Left does not understand.  We don’t claim to understand all of it either.  We have no idea what’s going to happen today, but know Letterman and his ilk on the Left are already galvanizing Sarah Palin into an icon she would never have become without their constant barrage of attacks. 

We hope enough people turn out today to rattle CBS, David Letterman, the DNC, the Liberal Left, The Olive Garden, Mars Candy, Kelloggs, Johnson + Johnson, and the rest of Leterman’s sponsors so that they not only think twice about attacking the Palins in such ugly terms again, but also hesitate to attack women in general in these vulgar, sexist, and misogynistic terms anymore. 

In a few hours, we’ll know what sort of turnout there is, and can then begin to piece together what it all means, but there certainly is a lot to think about…and a ready-made theme song to set it all to:

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