A blimp, some busses and lots of sign waving

Posted on January 12, 2008

I drove to Myrtle Beach the other day and attended a Fair Tax Rally before the GOP Debate. The Elks lodge was full to overflowing of people fed up with the income tax. There were lots of Fair Tax hats and shirts, some food and a pretty darn good C/W band. Then the party really started with speeches from Fair Tax Candidates starting with Will Breazeale (yes he was about 30 miles out of his district but then so were a bunch of the people in the audience) followed by some running against Sen. Graham in SC.

The keynote speaker was Congressman John Linder of Georgia. He spoke about how far the Fair Tax movement has progressed since he came aboard in the 90’s.

After the rally, the group went en mass to a parking lot across from the Convention Center where they met up with the Huckabee campaign bus. On the way they passes by groups of supporters for the various candidates. The Fair Tax group easily out numbered the supporters for any of the candidates.

The group raided the Huckabee trailer and most were then carrying both Fair Tax and Huckabee signs.

The Huckabee bus arrived (without Huckabee) and after a while he did come along too and spoke to the crowd.

Those who had not experienced the Paulies experienced them first hand, often walking away shaking their heads at the incredible “logic” espoused by the supporters of Dr. Paul. All the while his blimp circled alternating with a small plane towing a banner for “ED 08″. Took a while to find out it was not a FRED 08 sign missing letters but one for a group pressing for more federal control of education.

Will and our crew made our way to the convention center where we occupied some of the nose bleed seats for the debate.

For my first trip to Myrtle - was a little disappointed not to even see the beach, but it was a very interesting day.

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