Saturday in D.C., as you may have heard, saw a reversal of sorts. A hotly-disputed number (we average those crowd estimates at 20,000) of middle-aged white conservatives of all stripes, armed with digital cameras, took to their lawn chairs on the National Mall to protest a grab bag of issues. Some of the issues drawing their ire—health care, card check—were relevant to the current conversation. Others, like D.C.'s now defunct gun ban and Barack Obama's place of birth, were nothing of the sort. So, in many ways, conservatives now find themselves in the same hopeless position as did liberals circa 2003, with a critical core of dissent energizing a nonsensical, incoherent coalition of aggrieved parties with little to put on the table and a whole lot of bile to spill. But to step all the way back: unlike 2003, when the aggravating factor was clearly the preemptive invasion of Iraq, one has to reserve doubt that the mob is truly animated by the policy prescriptions encased in H.R. 3200. READ MORE 12