Posted on 09/06/2008 9:20:11 PM PDT by Libloather
Out on the trail, once unknown Palin - now greeted by 'Sarah! Sarah!' - gains celebrity status
By SARA KUGLER, Associated Press
Last update: September 6, 2008 - 9:37 PM
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The banners, buttons and signs say McCain-Palin, but the crowds say something else.
"Sa-rah! Pa-lin!" came the chant at a Colorado Springs rally on Saturday moments before Republican nominee John McCain took the stage with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a woman who was virtually unknown to the nation just a week earlier. The day before, thousands screamed "Sa-rah! Sa-rah! Sa-rah!" at an amphitheater outside Detroit.
"Real change with a real woman," read one sign at a Wisconsin rally. "Hurricane Sarah leaves liberals spinning," cried another.
**SNIP**
"She's the draw for a lot of people," said Marilyn Ryman, who came to see her at the Colorado rally inside an airport hangar. "The fact that she's someone new, not the old everything we've seen before."
McCain has sought to portray Palin as a bulldog who will help him "shake things up" on Capitol Hill.
Washington, he said Saturday, is "going to get to know her, but I can't guarantee you they'll love her."
"We do!" came a cry from the crowd.
At a rally in Albuquerque later, McCain acknowledged the juice she has injected into his campaign.
"The response to her has been overwhelming, it's been incredible," he said.
Perhaps recognizing the excitement she is generating, the McCain campaign was planning to keep Palin with McCain for several more days, rather than dispatch her to campaign by herself, as had initially been discussed.
On Saturday, McCain and Palin rode their post-convention wave into the competitive West, where Democrats have made recent gains in traditional Republican strongholds.
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“No, she shot me a couple of times though.”
Ya gotta to learn to move fast or you’re not long around....:))
Sounds like my life.
I hung out with mostly with my cousin Russ who was a star in the local Pony/Little league.
We’d play baseball and I had to learn *fast* because he never cut me any slack for being younger or a girl.
[but if I hit it hard enough to go into the cow pasture, he’d always make me go find and fetch the ball...shouldn’t I have been *rewarded*, instead?]...LOL
Years later in high school, the girl’s softball team kept ragging me to “officially” join because I had a wicked sidearm pitch and could bat extremely well, generally line-driving the pitcher about head-height which always made her hit the deck out of fear.
I never took them up on it because it was *soft*ball, fer cryin’ out loud.
If they’d had girl’s baseball...well, mebbe.
:))
She’s not a “fembot”....she’s what a real woman should be.
Pioneer women did and farm women still do “man’s work” every day and never even blink.
It was just what you did to survive and you made no fuss and took no notice.
That’s her real appeal.
One of the funniest “feminist slam” bumper stickers I ever saw was on the truck of a farm gal who runs a feed store near here.
“You wear boots and drive a truck? Oh, how cute!”
Yes they are having fun!
(It really is hard work,— travel, time away from home and family, commitments and schedules that Sen McCain and Gov Palin and their loved ones are going thru. It can’t be easy.)
If that isn’t putting Country First...!
True, to an extent. The reason people like Palin is that she's a real, down to earth woman who can rise to the occasion.
Unfortunately, the way our current system is configured, you need to have what I'll generously call 'major mental health issues' in order survive the two year gauntlet of running for President. Palin is not an egomanic like, well, the other three people on the ticket. She's just who she is. Normal people are not going to go through two years of running for President.
Now, two MONTHS, sure, why not?
Anyway, the idea of putting someone halfway normal in the White House is a lot more appealing than putting in someone who's eyes blink open in the morning, and who's first waking thought is 'I should be President'.
It's like the old line about replacing Congress with the first 500 names in the phone book. Americans just distrust career politicians, and deep down, crave someone normal.
I have never ever said Plain is a fembot....never.
My posts on Sarah Palin have been the most adoring I have ever posted about any politician in my life.
I think she may be the future redeemer for conservatism in my last decades of life.
I totally eschew feminism as expressed by most folks and view Sarah Palin as obviously a beautiful woman but I love what she says and obviously stands for. It mirrors my own.
I am a 50 year old alpha male chauvinist and make no apologies. I think Sarah is exceptional....very much so but the vindication of anything remotely feminist hs no play in this whatsoever for me nor the scores of men just like me I know personally who are enraptured with her.
I'm from Mississippi, we have women there who can hunt, skin animals, defend the home and still wear war paint, Manolos and Fogal hosiery and know how to slink into those Cosabella undies just right.
and I think Sarah has all that down too...
Being strong and retaining femininity and rejecting victimhood and identity politics is what makes her special aside from her pure embrace of the right side of the culture war.
hell, I wish she were Queen.
hyperbole aside....her views on abortion, guns, and God are 24 carat gold to this old right wing father of 5, son of the South.
and like I said....I do not know one man like me who doesn't swoon over her....hell, I got teary eyed when she brought her Downs child onstage.
like Rush said it doesn't get any better than this but it's no woman issue...at least not for me or her to hear her talk.
if we ever have a black, hispanic_____fill in blank, person elected, it should be the same criteria
She part tom boy, part PTA mom, part cougar.
This isn’t going to be about the womens vote; Mccain’s male vote is going to go up even more I bet.
WHOA.
but McCain is our candidate......
he has shown wisdom and insight hasn't he, in naming Gov. Palin?.....
Yep i will be there
Do you really want a VP who is against all forms of contraception, anti-labor, believes you can "pray for a gay" and change them into a heterosexual, is married to a guy who wants to secede from the USA, whose daughter is a seventeen year old slut, who endangered her unborn baby, who hired a lobbyist for pork from Washington for her town as mayor, and is governor of a state with a smaller population than most cities in the US! She's unqualified for God sake to operated the asshole on an elephant. Who the hell is McCain kidding? Except maybe yourself? Love ya Bro, Bob
From the keyboard of a loving, compassionate, inclusive democrat. Don't ya just feel the love?
Just read this gem on RATS underground - (edits are mine) -
It's time to throw the kitchen sink. NOW.
Edited on Sun Sep-07-08 01:33 PM by backscatter712
Yeah. Hillary's strategy.
We need to be throwing every last molecule of sh** we've got at McCain and Palin.
Stop paying even an ounce of respect to them. They've proved they don't deserve it.
Demonize them. Dehumanize them.
Stop with the obligatory respectful nods to McCain's service and time in the Hanoi Hilton and start calling him Wetstart and Songbird.
And the Wicket *itch of the North already has so many scandals that a hundred million in ads over the remaining weeks of election season should utterly destroy her.
Why do we insist on being the nice guys? That gets our a$$es kicked by those bullying Rethug pieces of sh** every time!
HURT THEM!!! NOW!!!
I wish they did do all those things, it would drop Obama in the polls like a rock.
When people get panicky they get stupid.
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