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ANOTHER ?TEA PARTY? PROTEST, IN ?DEEP BLUE? NEWBURYPORT: What would Ronald Reagan do if he were p?

By Glenn Reynolds

ANOTHER “TEA PARTY” PROTEST, IN “DEEP BLUE” NEWBURYPORT:

What would Ronald Reagan do if he were president at this precarious point in our nation’s history, asked local Republican Tea Party organizer Paul Breau as he stood outside City Hall Saturday with 100 fellow conservatives from Newburyport and beyond.

Breau and an upstart group of Republican activists sought to isolate that question and uphold the values of conservatism in a Democratic stronghold by raising handmade signs and taking part in their own local version of a nationally organized Republican event this weekend ? their Grand Ole Tea Party.

By organizing across the street from where Congressman John Tierney was holding a public meeting with constituents of his 6th District, the group drew plenty of attention, and that’s just what they wanted.

Read the whole thing. Sounds like a good tactic. In general, though the Tea Party protests are by no means exclusively Republican, though Republican leaders are starting to jump on the bandwagon.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 30, 2009 (boomark / email).