There are definitely going to be 2 million people at the 9/12 event.

[Barack_America]

Probably more like 3 million.

I mean, how could there not be? From all accounts this tea party movement is HUGE and they are ALL going to Beck's 9/12 marketing scheme protest tomorrow!

At least 2 million, at least.


Pelosi, Dems Bracing For Huge Turnout At Glenn Beck/Tea Party Gathering

Looks like there’s serious concern among Dems about the big 9/12 rally that’s being heavily promoted by Glenn Beck, Fox, and the tea partiers for tomorrow.

A top aide to Nancy Pelosi has emailed a memo to Dem aides on the Hill and outside liberal groups warning they should brace for a turnout of up to two million people, suggesting Dems worry that if enough conservatives descend on the Mall it will amount to a major PR victory for the right.

The aide, Doug Thornell, warned in the memo that the dust-up over Joe “you lie” Wilson has been invigorating conservatives. “It looks like Saturday’s event is going to be a huge gathering, estimates ranging from hundreds of thousands to 2 million people,” Thornell wrote in the memo, which was forwarded by a source.

In another sign of concern, the memo painstakingly detailed a range of turnout predictions from the event’s organizers, such as this one from tea party leaders promising a crowd of up to 1,000,000.

Adding to Dem concern is the fact that Beck recently claimed a major victory in the ouster of former green jobs adviser Van Jones.

The House leadership memo predicting huge turnout could have been written in hopes that it would leak and inflate expectations for turnout, anticipating that it will fall far short. But Dems on the Hill insist they’re genuinely worried about what tomorrow will bring.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/political-media/pelosi-dems-bracing-for-huge-turnout-at-glenn-becktea-party-gathering
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8647654&mesg_id=8647654

[stlsaxman]

1. Dear God.

[Howardx]

2. if there isnt 2 million

its a massive failure.

[Barack_America]

3. A massive failure for sure.

I mean, according to their estimates, 2 million people would just be a drop in the bucket of their tea party numbers.

[Speck Tater]

4. My prediction: 227 people. Period. nt

[ThomWV]

10. If the weather is good raise that to 316

[Tangerine LaBamba]

25. The weather is going to be perfect -

High seventies, low eighties, a little overcast, maybe a drizzle, but pretty nice.

I hope two million show up. The District can use the revenue, given the dismal vacation season they had this summer. If those teabaggers stay in hotels (is that possible, or am I overlooking the rampant use of tents in church parking lots?) and eat in restaurants, maybe even take a cab here and there, that will be a great infusion of cash into DC's coffers.

I say, Come.

Enjoy.

Clean up after yourselves.

Don't scare the locals.

Suck in your bellies.

Eat.

Spend.

Be fat and happy.

Then, go home..................................................

[vadawg]

36. hopefully they do all this, and just march, i really dont want to work tomorrow if i can help it

though its o/t :)

[bluestateguy]

5. Not this shit again

[Arugula Latte]

Umm...

I guess you don't get the poster's intent ...

[whosinpower]

6. so what?

Bush wrote the history on protests - "We don't focus on special interest groups."

And THAT was for a WORLDWIDE protest that involved countless millions across the entire planet.

Just because they are right wingers does not make them any more relevant.
Out of a population of 400 million - 2 million is nothing. If it was 20 million - that would be different.
And - any violence that occurs - belongs to them. It is theirs.

[Libertas1776]

7. 2 Million people? Ha!

2000 people max, maybe, if they're lucky. But Faux News will pan the camera around, mulitply the shots of the same people over and over and claim 10 Million people have shown up.

[Barack_America]

20. Nah. 2 million for sure.

Glenn Beck is such a huge success that anything less would have to be considered a failure.

[sohndrsmith]

41. Aw, heck, man... please don't put Hopper and reference FN in the same post.

That's just more physical/emotional/visual pain than I can handle... ( I get your reasoning, but it hurts, nonetheless).

[laconicsax]

8. Don't these groups always expect millions and end up with dozens?

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. Wow. Better have two Porta-Potties available in that case.

[ThomWV]

11. These are the kind of people who flip over porta-potties for the pure thrill of it.

A civil lot they ain't.

[Bobbieo]

12. How many of them will be armed?

[lysosome]

14. Both of them.

[Hasnt Happened Yet]

60. All of them I hope..

I hope they get real feisty with their weapons too. The SS snipers on the rooftops might get itchy fingers.

[lysosome]

13. No. They'll just crap on the ground. Public sanitation is socialism, and it will piss off the...

environmentalists.
Didn't we just have a thread that Beck only had 3 million viewers. I'm sure they'd all like to make it, but if they weren't too lazy to change the channel, they wouldn't BE beck viewers.

[cliffordu]

15. You can't get two million of these idiots to leave their cars at home for

a day or walk as far as they'd have to to get there.

I predict mass fail...

[Walk away]

16. Two million wrinkley, old white people on the National Mall.

That has got to be the world's creepiest site. I hope they don't all start drinking tea as there can't possibly be enough Port-O-Sans for so many bladder challenged folk. They'll need hundreds of ramps and extra room for hundreds of thousands of home health care aides.

I am hardly a teenager and I'm your standard European Mutt but the thought skives me out.

This could give the world a good look at the "future" of the republican party.

[TxRider]

17. Not on a work day there won't be...

They expect 2 million to take the day off in this economy?

Bwahaha!

[Walk away]

18. Tomorrow is Saturday. N/T

[Barack_America]

19. These people are anti-union. So Saturday is a work day.

Still I predict 2 million easy.

[stevedeshazer]

48. And most of 'em are retired and on Social Security and Medicare. n/t

[lpbk2713]

21. A Guiness record in the making for sure.

"World's Largest Circle Jerk"


And Beckerhead will be the pivot man.


BWAHAHAHA

[Parker CA]

22. Prepare for the most epic display of spelling fail ever!!

[d_r]

23. yeah, they will turn out 2 million for sure

I mean, even 3 million would only be 1% of the US population. There will surely be 2 million angry tea baggers there.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

26. How many were at Obama's inauguration?

I'm a long-time DC-area resident, and that crowd was one of the biggest I've ever seen.

So, Beck's might be bigger, even?

Kewl...................

[Barack_America]

29. And the Inauguration temps were sub-zero.

Hmm, I might have to amend my predictions to 4 million.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

30. I think that's a good idea -

"idea" being the operative word there.

Yes, four million at least.

I can't wait. I wonder if I'll be able to see them from here?

[Barack_America]

31. We'll be able to see them from space.

There will be so many of them.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

34. OK, good -

then I don't have to sit out there, waiting.

This is very exciting. I remember so well the Teabaggers' gathering down by the White House on Tax Day. It was inspiring. There must have been two hundred people there!!!

And the Porta-Potties! They were everywhere!

America at its finest.

My favorite part of that was when the organizers wanted to dump a bunch of teabags that they'd collected inside the White House gates, but were warned by the Secret Service that they better not do that.

I understand Their Big Dump took place on a table in an office somewhere. I don't know what else happened, but I'm sure there was cheering and applause.

Or at least someone said the Pledge of Allegiance.

Good times..............................

[theophilus]

24. 2.5 million for sure. Beck is the Pied Piper. n/t

[pipi_k]

39. Wait...didn't the Pied Piper rid the town of rats? uh...never mind...

:+

[redqueen]

27. More like three million I bet.

Beck has lots of fans. Seriesly.

[Contrary1]

28. I took the liberty of editing this article from 2003

President undeterred by antiwar teabagger protests


WASHINGTON -- President Bush Obama brushed aside massive small demonstrations against his Iraq economic policy as evidence that protesters ''don't view Saddam Hussein being uninsured as a risk to peace them,'' and he promised to defend US interests despite the millions hundreds who took to the streets worldwide in DC over the weekend.


Bush Obama insisted he respects the rights of protesters to speak out, but he dismissed the largest antiwar demonstrations since the Vietnam era teabagger rally since that Boston thingie, with 6 million hundreds of participants, as unrepresentative of world the majority of US citizens' opinion.

''You know, size of protest, it's like deciding, well, I'm going to decide policy based upon a focus group. The role of a leader is to decide policy based upon the security best interests -- in this case, the security best interests of the people,'' Bush Obama said. ''Evidently some . . . don't view Saddam Hussein health care as a risk to peace necessity for all the uninsured. I respectfully disagree.''

[greenman3610]

32. no more than 5000 tops

[lysosome]

61. DING DING DING DING!!!!!! We have a winner. Quick, what's the next lotto numbers?

[OwnedByFerrets]

33. GOD, I hope it rains all fucking day

[chrisa]

35. There will be 5 million.

Sitting on the couch, eating Cheetos, and watching the 12 that went get humiliated by those around them.

[Doremus]

37. Is this a joke or just reichwing wet dreams?

[pipi_k]

38. We'd probably have a better idea of how many there will be if we

could get data on how many boxes of crayons have been sold in the past few days.

For signs, I mean.

:7

[IDemo]

40. Regardless of how many, Faux will report it as brazillians

[Canuckistanian]

42. That's a lot of Porta-Potties

I hope to God they have enough.

[TheCowsCameHome]

58. Well, they have to have a place to eat, don't they?

[Junkdrawer]

43. EXCLUSIVE: Advance photo of the 2 million freeper march:

I counted. 2 million for sure...

[pipi_k]

46. You miscounted...two million and one...

You're welcome

:7

[Jazzgirl]

44. I think you mean "it's going to be hugh!!1!11!!"

I mean, really.....how could it not be??!!??

[Proud Liberal Dem]

45. Yup Yup!

It's going to be HUGH!!!!!
:eyes:
:sarcasm:

[brettdale]

47. Faux and their fuzzy math

If say 50 thousand people turn up, they will say 500 thousand in DC

If 200 thousand people turn up nationwide, they will say 2 million.

They of course will also say, that the liberal media downplayed the crowds.

Of course the counter protesters numbers will be ignored by faux.

[cap]

49. Here's the bus list for 9/12

http://912dc.org/getting-here/list-of-buses-coming-to-dc/

[pipi_k]

53. Wish I had seen this list before...

I would have called or emailed each one and told them I wanted a ride.

A hundred buses in my tiny little rural town. What entertainment that would have been for my neighbors...

:7

[Rex]

50. 4,000 professional teabaggers, expect 40k angry dimwits that love to run

into brick walls for fun! Fucking pathetic morans. :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: <---three roll monty.

[spanone]

51. yep, double-wides across america will be empty

[Doctor_J]

52. What an opportunity

[TK421]

54. why cross out marketing scheme in the OP? That's all it is, after all

everyone knows it, too....but a thumbs up, anyway

[pipi_k]

55. Where's the damned rogue meteorite when you need it?

Off falling into Jupiter, no doubt. Bastard.

[BumRushDaShow]

56. The huge turnout may be the BLACK FAMILY REUNION

going on ALL WEEKEND on the National Mall this weekend. It is sponsored by the http://www.ncnw.org/events/reunion.htm">National Council for Negro Women and Dorothy Height as well as many civil rights and entertainment luminaries, are supposed to be there.

Now WTF is going to happen if these 2 groups run into each other?

[AnnieBW]

57. 2 bajillion my ass

I live in the DC suburbs. Around here, it was EXTREMELY crowded during the run-up to Obama's inauguration. Traffic on our short stretch of Rt. 1 was more than it's normal bumper-to-bumper for a 3-day weekend that day. Lots of out-of-state license plates. Every frickin' bus on the East Coast was on the DC-area roads that weekend. And they had what, 1.5 million people attend the swearing-in and parade?

Granted, I was bringing my sick cat home from the vet tonight, but I saw nowhere near that kind of traffic on our roads tonight. It was a normal, rainy Friday night. So, judging by the amount of traffic on Rt. 1 in Laurel, I'm guessing that the 9/12 Teabagger thing will be a total bust. If they get five digits, I'll be surprised. Either that, or they'll claim the the Black Family Reunion attendees are actually teabaggers. :sarcasm:

[Hasnt Happened Yet]

59. If you count the "arm-chair" patriots watching at home..

I hope they all give each other the H1N1.