Most Important Poll Ever

A USA TODAY/Gallup Poll found six out of ten Americans feel people wearing American flag lapel pins are patriotic. No word on if people that choose not to wear flag lapel pins secretly heart al-Qaeda.

Seriously, was this poll necessary? What is surprising is that 40 percent don't view flag label pins as an act of patriotism. My read is people are growing cynical about the whole lapel pin debate.

Another interesting part of the poll is 2/3 view acts of protests as an act of patriotism.

On that, there is something of a partisan divide. Democrats are nearly twice as likely as Republicans to see protest as very patriotic.

Republicans associate protests with the sixties counter-culture. Conservatives are less likely at getting involved in grassroot activism. I personally find protests increasingly useless. A major problem is the nutjobs waving communist flags (is that the next lapel pin debate?) or dressed as Nazis can not be screened out. They have as much right to be there. Unfortunately, they hurt people attending protests with noble intentions.

I am not satisfied with Democrats or Republicans saying the Pledge of Allegiance or wearing lapel pins. If these pols really want to show their patriotism then they will get the American flag tattooed to their foreheads. My decry as been spoken. Let my will be done.