The AFP Tax Day rally energized about 6500 freedom activists to share their enthusiasm with neighbors, families and friends. My energy grew with each greeting of all the wonderful people I have met on this trail over the past four years and had a chance to see on the steps of OUR capitol. Just look at the fun we’re having though I got a bit sunburned.

Yours truly found his way into the middle of this picture with the Gadsden hat and Scott Walker MY Hero shirt standing next to the famous activist Dennis Barthenheier (who after the rally went to a bowling tournament in Baraboo where he averaged 215/game).

Emceed by the true original American Patriot of African Descent James T. Harris the event planners couldn’t have found a better spark plug to get the gig going though we now have to import him back from Arizona. But he’s ours and we love him!

Unlike our Leftist counterparts, we begin our events by honoring our heritage and country with the Pledge of Allegiance and National Anthem. Our disruptive friends shouted degrading comments during each which were barely heard and given no notice. The disrupters were truly a non-factor on this day.

Super Nashville recording artist Krista Branch opened with her awesome song “I am America” which I heard 3 times on my CD player on the way out. Wisconsin AFP Director Luke Hilgemann started out the messaging that we will not let Scott Walker or any of the other heroes being recalled be defeated by the Left.

What would a Tea Party rally be without a great speech from Kim Simac, the original Northwoods Patriot, this time outlining the true war on women being waged by the Left on mothers and conservatives. Lora Halberstadt of the Racine Tea Party offered her typically astute take on this leftist women’s war, a perfect complement for Kim’s remarks. Then of course, the Rock Star of Radio, Vicki McKenna, brought the whole thing home. You know how good she is by how crazy the disrupters get when she hits the stage.

The most important development which occurred over the winter, the development of the iverifytherecall searchable website, has give conservatives vast new tools for local elections for years to come. Ross Brown, the group leader of the Madison part of this herculean effort, provided the activists with his perspective on where we are and how we move forward.

Several other speakers from around the country fired up the activist crowd but it reached it’s peak when Dana Loesch, St. Louis Tea Party Patriots founder and radio talk show host took the stage. Fearless and direct with a commanding presence, Loesch worked the crowd into a frenzy much like the individual pictured on her shirt who had done so a year earlier, the late Andrew Breitbart. What an incredible lady and patriot!

But the grand finale had to come from our own Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch, our homegrown product of the conservative activist army which now rules the state of Wisconsin. She knows more about the Left’s war on women than just about anyone else, save possibly Governor Sarah Palin. But her ever steely resolve and personal strength enveloped all who listened. And the Left fears her.

She was partying with her own people, the people that got her elected, the people she has fearlessly represented in her quest to assist Governor Walker in restoring sanity to a state long abused by marauders. The activist army has her back, and she knows it.

Thank God for Rebecca Kleefisch!

The final, essential and most fitting wrap up by James T. Harris implored acknowledgment of our one true ruler and leader, the Lord God Almighty, who made the heavens and the Earth, who sheds his grace upon thee. It is not our faith in a man but our faith in him that makes us free people.

Krista Branch finished the event with another of her excellent songs “Remember Who We Are.”

As per usual, the Tea Party rally site was perfectly clean when all departed and the tulips, untrampled, still blooming their heads off.