Muscatine

I well know the meaning of the saying but I don't understand why you thought it applied.   What is graveyard the metaphor for?   That's where the clarification is needed.

I'll get back to you on other idioms and sayings as they come up.

I'll go ahead and explain my use for you.   In my case the graveyard is a metaphor for your fear in addressing the facts that Beck had far fewer people present than he and his right wing supporters said were there.  

It would appear that YOU are the one with a Beck Crowd fear. My gawd girl, do you have eyes? Are you so full of koolaid that you need to discount every thing that any person connected to anything conservative either says or does? You do realize that Beck's event was not political don't you? So why should it matter if he had thirty million there? The tv cameras were doing a very good job of covering the crowd and let me tell you girl, there was a HUGE crowd. So get over it already.

I don't think anybody should claim they could get an accuate count from the TV coverage.

HUGE if you consider 87,000 huge.   I have no fear of that number.   You and the gang seem to have trouble accepting it.

The graveyard I referred to is the plight of the Democrats.  It is real.  The smarmy liberals will not come out the otherside.  Whistle away.