Photos: Tea Party Express comes to Rockford

I'll post a write-up of the event sometime tomorrow morning from today's Tea Party Express rally in Rockford, Illinois. But first some pictures.

That's roughly half of the crowd who turned out for the Tea Party Express Rally in Rockford, Illinois this afternoon. My guess is that there were 1,500 patriots in attendance. Behind the trees you can see (barely) the Rock River.



This patriotic woman is dancing to Lloyd Marcus' "Twenty Ten."


This is my favorite photograph of the day. Yes, those are real Catholic nuns and they told me their order and where there convent is located. They were among the many attendees expressing their pro-life stance.




Gil Scott-Heron was wrong. The revolution will be televised. And blogged.


I'll write more about this tomorrow, but Andrea Shea King, who I finally met, treated me like a prince the whole afternoon. I'm wearing a Chicago Police baseball-style shirt.

Young people go to tea parties.

                                                              Old men go to tea parties.



Neither do I. But our president does someone who bombed the Pentagon.

A half hour after the Tea Party Express buses pulled out: Tea partiers are the tidiest protesters on the planet.

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