GOP Rescues American Flags Discarded at Greek Temple Speech

The day after the Obamessiah's Greek Temple speech I saw a report on Gateway Pundit showing bags of discarded American flags that were tossed aside by the attendees at the speech (you can see the photos here). Somebody with the local GOP had a good idea and rescued the bags of discarded flags, used the Boy Scouts to sort out the ones that could still be used, and brought them to Colorado Springs for the McCain-Palin rally:

Democrats are not caring for their Stars and Stripes. At least that’s the message out of John McCain’s campaign.

McCain supporters, claiming they rescued 12,000 miniature American flags from the site of Barack Obama’s nomination acceptance speech last Thursday, redistributed the orphan flags to audience members ahead of a McCain rally in Colorado Springs on Saturday.

The move was an overt swipe at Obama from a campaign whose motto has been “country first.” But Democratic convention organizers claimed the flags were not going to be discarded — but instead were snatched from the site of Obama’s historic address to carry out a “cheap political stunt.”

McCain supporters said the flags were discovered by a vendor at Denver’s Invesco Field after the conclusion of the Democratic National Convention. The vendor supposedly found trash bags full of flags in and near garbage bins, and turned them over to the McCain campaign.

Boy Scouts were sorting through 84 bags of flags in Colorado on Saturday, before a McCain supporter had veterans distribute them to the audience.

“We want to find good homes for these flags,” radio host Dan Caplis said at the rally, adding that whatever flags remained would be placed at memorials throughout Colorado.

Audience members, who booed when Caplis announced that the flags were left in Denver, waved the flags and chanted “U.S.A” before McCain arrived at the rally with his running mate, Sarah Palin.

Damon Jones, spokesman for the Democratic National Convention Committee, released a statement saying McCain should applaud the fact that thousands of American flags were “proudly waved” at their convention.

“But instead his supporters wrongfully took leftover bundles of our flags from the stadium to play out a cheap political stunt calling into question our patriotism,” he said.

There were bags of unused flags left at Invesco Field for over a week. Apparently the Democrats no longer had a use for them once the TV cameras were turned off. David Harsanyi in the Denver Post said this:

“The flags were there for a week and a day and no one came looking for them.”

They're in good hands now. Out of such moments campaign victories are made.