Palin's hometown crowd: "She thumped 'em"

AP via Yahoo! ^ | September 04, 2008 | By MARY PEMBERTON

[library user]

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WASILLA, Alaska - Scott Myers led the cheering section Wednesday as Sarah Palin, the hometown girl, accepted the Republican vice presidential nomination at the GOP convention.

Myers, holding two small American flags, shouted, "Go, Sarah! Yes, Sarah! Go Sarah! Yes, Sarah!" as more than 100 people crowded the Tailgaters sports bar and grill to watch the speech.

Myers, 70, said Palin is family, and she takes care of the people of Wasilla like her own.

He said she's hardworking, just like his mother, she's juggling two jobs, and she can take whatever is dished out.

Myers wasn't alone in his unabashed enthusiasm for Palin during her speech.

Minor Smith, 57, a North Slope worker from Wasilla, who was baptized in the same church as Palin and knows her husband, Todd, said he wasn't worried that Sarah would crumble under the pressure. In fact, he said, it's just the type of fight she likes.

"She is perfectly able to defend herself. She's a little tiger," he said of the woman he got to know at church picnics. "She loves this stuff. This is what she lives for."

Palin was born in Idaho, but moved to Wasilla as an infant with her parents, Chuck and Sally Heath.

[syriacus]

Her hometown should be proud of her.

[Mr. Mojo]

"She loves this stuff. This is what she lives for."

Sure seems like it. I was awed by her poise. She was completely in her element. A natural.

[goldstategop]

I don't recall any one making Americans feel good about themselves since Ronald Reagan! They LOVE her in Alaska!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Army Air Corps]

I don't recall any one making Americans feel good about themselves since Ronald Reagan!

It is morning again, in America.

[Lizavetta]

She was strong, poised, confident, unequivocal, spot on.

Everything you could want from a candidate.

And the libtards, the pretended champions of women, will be ripping her tomorrow for being 'shrill', 'harsh', or whatever.

Guess they don't consider women as equals like they say they do.

[chris_bdba]

Yep! Let the MSM talking heads yap,small town America heard her.

[BooBoo1000]

Wasilla, thanks for send us Sarah. I hope she get a chance to build a big fire under the Washington Crown

[goldstategop]

That's the vast middle of the country from the Mountain West through the Great Plains to the hills of West Virginia and the small towns of Pennsylvania! Middle America heard Sarah and she articulated THEIR values!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[2nd amendment mama]

I talked to a friend of mine in Wasilla after the speech and she said that they were estatic and extremely proud of her for the way she represented her home town! Until Sarah became the mayor, Kathy (my friend) had NEVER been involved in politics but she stands firmly behind Sarah and is totally into helping her and McCain get elected.

[Semperfiwife]

Harry Reid already says her speech was “shrill”
What say you, Nannny Pelosi?? Shrill, indeed.

[AnalogReigns]

Sarah Warrior-Princess

[Enchante]

"She is perfectly able to defend herself. She's a little tiger," he said of the woman he got to know at church picnics. "She loves this stuff. This is what she lives for."

LOL. The Demagogues are terrified at hearing that and seeing her historic speech tonight!!