I volunteered at this small invite-only event. The Bushies were hateful. Most were behind a barricade (no different, mind you, than the one the unlisted Kerry supporters had to stand behind, expect for the media tour busses blocking their view) but some could not be denied access to their homes within the barricade. Which wouldn't be a problem if they weren't so damn disrespectful. There were 3 women on one porch silently holding a * banner, which is well within their rights... stupid, but at least they had class about it. There is a photo of them on the PPG site
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04251/374641.stm One of the women has a son that served in Iraq as a military policeman, and is voting against Kerry because he "voted against funding that would have outfitted U.S. soldiers in Iraq with body armor". Luckily, the PPG also interviewed a vet that explained the faulty thinking in that claim (thank you, BushCo). I wanted so badly to ask Kerry to discuss the difference in their views on women - but the theme was labor, sooo ...
Most of the Bushies were ignorant red-neck types who found it amusing to try and shout over Kerry and many of them were young kids. They were too young to vote (phew!) and probably enlisted by their chicken-shit parents. The supporters kept it incredibly civil by ignoring the turds, while I was becoming seriously pissed. They were doing the equivalent of sticking their fingers in their ears, squeezing their eyes shut and shouting LA LA LA LA LA LA at the top of their lungs ... like that's going to change the truth. Apparently, they can't handle it. The coup de grace was when that 70 year-old who had 11 throat surgeries, was struggling to explain her prescription drug plight (had to get a part time job to pay for them!) ... and the bastards screamed over her. Kerry could barely hear her and she was 2 feet away with a microphone. His response was "While the Bush people were rudely shouting, we had a 70-year-old woman trying to speak" according to PPG, but I thought he had said something to the effect of "trying to be heard". The point is, Kerry handled their shit so well(even turning some of the taunts back on them), that the supporting majority didn't have to say a word to the "jag offs".