LARGEST POLITICAL RALLY IN THE HISTORY OF THE USA? ABC NEWS REPORTS 1.5 MILLION ATTEND RALLY IN WASHINGTON

UPDATES AT THE END OF POST

Compare that to 250,000 for the MLK speech. Now admittedly, the country had a smaller population at the time, but the problem MLK was dealing with was far more specific. It was a matter of right and wrong. Honestly, there is a sense in which everyone OUGHT to have been there.

Additionally, in Martin Luther King Jr., that movement had a central Charismatic figure around whom to rally.

This new American movement does not have a central Charismatic figure as a fountainhead.

This Rally is, as I see it, a Rally in support of our Democratic Republic; our Constitution.

That is a complex set of ideas, but obviously it is a set of ideas that Americans have been willing to fight and die for repeatedly throughout our history.

I think Democrats in Congress would be advised to see this crowd for what it is; a massive uprising against the Obama Agenda.

UPDATE: I note that Reliapundit has a post up on this right below mine. His post reports 2 million.

Even better, if true.

For now, I'll take the Leftist, Obama-supporting ABC estimate as a legitimate number, just to rub their noses in it.

The real truth of the numbers will come out eventually. And, don't be surprised if it is even more than 2 million people.

UPDATE: This is, apparently, the largest peaceful political rally ever held in the history of the United States.

*******UPDATE/RELIAPUNDIT:

• THIS IS NOT SOME ASTRO-TURFED RALLY; IT IS A POPULAR UPRISING!

• THEREFORE, THIS IS NOT ONLY THE LARGEST DEMONSTRATION IN USA HISTORY; IT IS UNIQUE IN THAT MOST PEOPLE IN THIS HUGE CROWD CAME ON THEIR OWN WITHOUT SPONSORSHIP OF A LARGE NATIONAL APPARATUS.

AWESOME!

POLITICIANS WHO IGNORE THIS DO SO AT THEIR OWN PERIL!

UPDATE FROM PASTORIUS: I just got off the phone with Always on Watch. She tells me the word is, DC Metro Police estimated the crowd at 2.4 million.

I have also received multiple reports that ever the time of the ABC estimate of 1.5 million people, hundreds of thousands were still streaming in.

AOW reports that of the tens of thousands of people she personally laid eyes on today, she saw seven Ron Paul t-shirts. That's it.

So, shut the fuck up, Charles Johnson.

Always on Watch promises to post photos tomorrow.