In their Springfield, Ohio, home, Tea Party supporters Paul and Doris Weaver and their grandson Noah, who attended the Glenn Beck rally with Henthorn.
the question as fair. Then he goes long. “I took an oath, and if this nation calls on me to give my life at the age of 63 or 65 or 70, so be it. I’d go to Afghanistan today, in a microsecond. It’d hurt a lot, but I’d do it.” By the time the rally is over, the Ohio-
ans have scattered so that Henthorn is alone on the streets of Washington with Dale Unroe. The two men are close friends. Unroe is Henthorn’s communi- cations director and the acting chief of staff for his campaign. Unroe frequent- ly drives up to Dayton from his home in Cincinnati, an hour south, to crash at the comfortable ranch home Henthorn shares with his wife, their youngest son, and three tiny pugs. He maintains Henthorn’s computers, and Henthorn, a father of four, regards him as a way- ward fifth child. Unroe giddily phones him after he works out with his per- sonal trainer, a onetime tennis ace from Sweden, and Henthorn, in turn, fond- ly feigns exasperation. “Yes, Dale,” he drones when Unroe calls. “Okay, Dale. Sure, Dale.” The two men wander onto Consti-
tution Avenue, and then, they’ll both report later, they run into their political foes. Marching toward them are thou- sands of anti-Tea Party protesters led by the Rev. Al Sharpton. The vast prepon- derance are black, and they seem angry that Glenn Beck has come to town on Dr. King’s day. They’re chanting slo- gans such as, “Martin’s dream is under attack,” and Henthorn and Unroe are aghast. “They had only one American flag
that I could find,” Henthorn will say later, “but they had a huge, huge African American flag.” As Unroe sees it, one of the protest-
ers’ signs is egregiously impolite in its treatment of Alaska’s foremost celeb- rity. “It just called her ‘Palin,’ ” he tells me afterward. “It didn’t say ‘Gover- nor Palin’ or ‘Mrs. Palin’ or even ‘Sarah Palin.’ Just ‘Palin.’ It seems they were trying to signify insult.” “I have a rough-streets kind of in-
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