Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Proper Townhall Togs

I was at lunch today and I had just emailed a couple of friends about attending tomorrow night's health care townhall sponcered by the SEIU and Rep. Kathy Castor (D) Socialism Rocks, (send your reports to flag@whitehouse.gov.) when I came across post at And So it Goes in Shreveport and may I say, "thank goodness I did!" Can you imagine had I shown up at meeting at 6:00 p.m. on a work day in the clothes I had worn to work? Why, Barbara Boxer might think that I was "too well dressed" to be a legitimate concerned citizen.

Obviously I can't show up in that cute pin striped suit I picked up at Nearly New for fear of appearing "wealthy". So I've settled on the clothes I wore this weekend to work in the yard.

I've seen video from several townhalls and Tea Parties and I don't know where Boxer was coming from. Everybody I've seen has looked, normal. But what difference does it make? Is there a handbook titled, The Activist's Guide to Proper Protest Attire?

Those on the Left have decades of experience at this "angry mob" thing; those of us on the Right are newbies. Cut us some slack if we're not up to speed on the dress code.

2 comments:

Left Coast Rebel said...

Perhaps we just need to dress like the homeless to be heard.....I mean while we are at it, why not reek of vodka and have a missing shoe, slurred speech, and talk in spanish too? Then they would listen to us.

Carol said...

I could wear my typical weekend yardwork outfit except you'd need to substitute beer for vodka and I usually have both flip flops on. Other than that mi espanol es muy not good.