Posted on 08/30/2008 8:21:32 AM PDT by azdesert
With the Palin choice for VP yesterday, my wife is extremely excited and motivated to support the McCain/Palin ticket. We are thinking of doing some precinct volunteer work now.
She’s not the only one. I actually cried when I saw the news unfolding tomorrow morning.
You mean she was going to support Obama before ?
You signed up today to post this????
Carry on.
My wife really likes this pick, she loves the way Palin speaks, she also likes Hillary but is very impressed with how different Palin is. Palin is well spoken and articulate, she is likable and she brings those qualities lacking from McCain...
So did my husband...he was so fearful that John McCain would choose a dud.
Welcome to FR. I hope you are as energized as your wife. Get down to your local GOP Party HQ and join the line of volunteers flocking in. It really is amazing (and heartwarming) to see people coming in asking “what can I do to help?”
“I Have Never Seen My Wife So Excited About Politics!”
I saw the same with my wife. She has been a straight line republican. She respected Reagan, tolerated Nixon, liked Betty Ford and as a Mother and Grandmother, is happy that GW is president instead of Gore or Kerry. She never was really excited about any of them like with Sarah. She listened to Sarah via Rush yesterday while we ran errands. Normally, she doesn’t care for Rush particuliarly with his negatism this year until yesterday.
She is excited about Sarah, so are her friends and their adult daughters, SIL’s and DIl. Many of them donated the first time for the ticket yesterday. We will increase our monthly donation, which I started earlier this month.
I have the feeling that we are not alone re our wives being excited about Sarah.
I’ll be honest with you, I woke up today like a kid on Christmas Morning....
My wife is very quiet about her politics but is an absolute die-hard supporter of Bush/Chaney. She like I are very lukewarm on McCain. When I told her yesterday morning that FNC was saying McCain's VP pick could be the Gov. of Alaska, a woman, she said, Oh you mean Sarah Palin? Great!
I was really surprised she even knew her name! My wife and I now have some real "HOPE" this Nov.
I was initially going to sit out the election; then when I started finding out more about Obama, I was going to hold my nose and vote McCain. After I found out even more about Obama, McCain started looking decent but not exciting.
When I started hearing about Palin a couple months ago, I liked her but didn’t want to get my hopes up. Starting Thursday night, when FR was helping to break the news about the plane from Alaska to Ohio, I was so excited, I stayed up until 12:30 in the morning hitting refresh to see if there was more confirmation.
I have not, in my voting lifetime, been this excited about an election!! I have been thinking of volunteering, too! It feels like when your team is headed to the Superbowl and they are going in looking strong (but there’s that anxiety at the back of your head that you are going to have a bad ref and some dirty deals going on.)
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There’s a bunch of good photos I vidcapped and posted on FR of Sarah Palin with US troops in Kuwait
Iraq is a good move as is Afghanistan
But time is short
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Those folks who are excited and want to make an effort to help, consider this:
If you send money to the campaign, it pays for salaries. That’s an important thing, but there may be better bang for your buck.
If you instead book airline tickets and a hotel in a Nevada city or a Colorado city (for the OP), or any battleground state for the final weekend of the election then you can pop into the local campaign office and help staff the phone banks.
Phone banks Get Out The Vote, and it’s votes that matter — in battlegrounds — not how good you feel about being energized. It’s a real skill, too, and it’s work, not play. You make calls, you ask someone to come out and vote, you apologize (because they are getting buried in calls) and if they want to debate issues You Do Not. It’s not about fun, it’s about numbers. Time spent debating is time you’re not spending getting 3-4 other voters out.
Give it some thought. Traveling to a battleground state to volunteer is the way to focus your energy, not campaigning in a state already deeply red.
The biggest difference I see between Sarah Palin and Hitlery, and there are many, is that Palin’s speechifying is entirely void of the “y’know’s” that pepper every Hitlery off-the-cuff remark.
I know Freepers are talented, but clairvoyant? Wow! ;^)
My wife used to be a sorta-Dem-leaning Independent who voted for Rudy twice, but not the third time, in NYC but has since morphed into a Franken-Moore whackjob on politics (I don't talk or watch politics with her anymore ... pointess), and she is actually considering sitting out the election for the first time ever. Or voting Nader, just to have someone to vote for.
Welcome to Free Republic. I’m pretty excited about his choice too.
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