Getting nervous

The Group-Palooza that I blogged about here is taking place in Marin today.  There are 400 attendees plus a long waiting list.  The local Organizing For America (the Obama activist organization) is getting nervous, and sent an emergency email out to its followers saying that it would be “embarrassing” if more “teabaggers” showed up in Marin than OFA members.

I’ll remind you of my predictions about the gathering, the first of which is already proving to be true:

1.  The Groupa-Palooza will be surprisingly well attended.  (True; see above.)

2.  The conservatives in attendance will achieve something approaching euphoria  simply because they can be open about their political views.

3.  There will be fringe, crackpot groups attending, such as Ron Paulians, just to name one of the less savory groups that self-affiliates with the conservative party.  There will also be some Birthers who haven’t yet acknowledged that the birth certificate ship has already sailed.

4.  No matter how small the percentage of fringe groups in attendance, those are the only groups that will get media attention.

Sadly, because of pre-existing family commitments, I will not be able to attend. So it goes.