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 ?
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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...
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....
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.)
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.
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.
My mother was so excited after I told her. Later, she was telling her neighber all I told her.
What an awesome pick. I just happened to tune in Rush while I was working and Palin is just starting her speech and Rush is just pumped and I’m stoked and the crowd is chanting USA! USA! USA!... i almost cried it was so good.
I was trying my hardest to settle for this or that, rationalize unfavorable choices.
And then out of the blue.... Governor Palin, making that awesome speech. Almost beyond words to describe. It was like a cloud was lifted and the sun burst forth for the first time in years.
I remember Elizabeth Dole making great speeches like that!
Finally, I am interested in this election beyond ‘Save the Republic, Preserve the Constitution’ which was enough to make me vote with conviction, but not as enthusiastically as I am now.
Welcome Aboard!
We can use all the help you care to give.
Semper Fidelis
An Old Man
A good friend said that she would love to be a little mouse in bill & hill’s house. Don’t you know ash trays are flying!?!?!?!