At least I influenced one person.

 Only hours after my anger inspired a boycott against all things South Carolina over the “You Lie” outburst by Idiot Joe Wilson I immediately realized I had just written out for all to read another of my bonehead ideas.

 Perhaps instead, I thought, those of us ticked over such a monumental expression of disrespect against our government, our president and our political system should meet the wingnuts with the same coarseness that they are spreading with some seeming success. Maybe those of us should go to the tea parties and townhall and other reactionary gatherings where every utterance by our opponents can be shouted down by our own outcry: “BULLSHIT!”

“I think,” says Rep. “Left Foot Bubba” Tingerhopper, R-Backwater, S.C., “Therefore, I am.”

 “BULLSHIT,” says we.

 Well, maybe not, for it seems my idea of a boycott was a good one.

 I am sure it wasn’t my idea that did the trick. But even though I did suggest boycotting certain aspects of the South Carolina economy — tourism for instance — there might at least be some like minds out there.

 McLatchy Newspapers reported yesterday that state and local tourism officials in South Carolina are being “flooded by emails and calls from people across the country, saying they won’t vacation in South Carolina” due to Wilson’s charge during a joint session of Congress that the president lied.

 South Carolina is home to a number of well-known tourist destinations including Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head.

 Even somewhat more bizarre, at least as far as this blog is concerned, I got an e-mail message concerning the boycott topic from a complete unknown. That is kind of unusual, especially these days since I switched to Word Press from Blogger. I seem to have lost some of my readers, not that I ever had many other than friends or relatives, most of whom are very tolerant people to be mostly conservatives who put up with or at least suffer in silence with my point of view.

 Sherry, from somewhere, e-mailed me: