Notes from a Pro-War Rally

About the pro-war rally today:
First of all, if they say so, there were not "hundreds"; there was barely a hundred. Second of all, why is a rally of "hundreds" of people news, even if it's San Francisco? A hundred people is about the size of a small breakaway protest in SF, or a small antiwar rally in Tulsa that was never on the news at all. Thirdly, not even all the supporters were supporting it that much. I talked to several of them and was very surprised. One guy who was a Vietnam vet agreed with some of what I had to say and eventually admitted he had voted for Nader. One guy who was wearing a sticker advertising the local right-wing radio station and had been in the Gulf War eventually started agreeing with so much of what I and others were saying I thought maybe he had changed his mind, and he had a lot of good things to say to, not one of which was pro-war. One guy who was talking like a left-winger said he was a libertarian (although he was on umemployment) and opposed to Social Security and abortion. One guy later called him a communist. I had some fascinating conversations and it was a bizarre scene.
At the end of it there were about 15 people on one side of the street supporting the war and less than 10 on the other side against it. I was sitting with the pro-war folks joking around with one of them. There was also, bizarrely, a convention of Mary Kay ladies at a convention near us. They were wearing purple outfits and were at one point in the middle of the road. I said to someone, "The Mary Kay ladies are in the middle of the road. Which way are they going to go?" And that's a good question for this confrontation.
Another point; if there were about a hundred prowar folks and 20 protesters, that means that a there was one antiwar protestors for 5 prowar folks. And a lot of them sounded pretty damn liberal to me. Almost everybody, from both sides, had either been in the army or had a brother or cousin there. I still don't know what the Mary Kay ladies thought.