Posted on 10/25/2008 1:29:16 PM PDT by john in springfield
Great report, thanks for posting it!
How many did Obama have there last week?
That can’t be possible. Gov. Palin is a drag on the GOP ticket. Most of America hates her. /s
Further proof that the slowly rotting soon-to-be corpse known as the media is engaging in a deliberate campaign to demoralize the GOP base.
Very nice!
ping for photos!
Awesome pictures, john! Gov Palin draws huge crowds every where she goes!
Here are a lot more photos from the News-Leader. They have close to 100, including many that are a lot better than my photos because they show things like close-up views of Sarah Palin, which I couldn't possibly get. However, they also contain photos of the few protesters who turned up. It's annoying that the protesters get so much coverage in the News-Leader photos, as I estimate there were nearly 1,000 Palin supporters there for every one protestor.
An anecdote regarding the protestors: While we were standing in line just in front of the security checkpoint, we heard kind of an engine roar and I turned to see a truck on the nearby street letting off this great big huge enormous cloud of black smoke. When I and the rest of the people saw that this enormous black cloud of diesel smoke was enveloping the tiny crowd of protestors across the street, everybody laughed.
It wasn't terribly nice of the passing truck to douse the little cloud of protestors in black smoke but I must confess... it was pretty darn funny.
My DBF and I wanted to attend, but we’re in Sedalia , so we couldn’t make it. We heard that people had to show up hours early (like, 4 AM early) just to make sure they’d get in! In contrast, when GWB was here in Sedalia, we showed up maybe an hour early to get in to the rally on the state fairgrounds, with no problem. Sure wish we could have made the Springfield rally.
Sarah Palin will be here in Asheville tomorrow afternoon in the Civic Center. It holds about 7500. I think we’re in trouble.
Awesome. 4,000 tickets selling out in 90 minutes? Wow! Incredible.
My daughter and I decided that with events like these, it’s worth getting their an extra hour or two early in order to get as close to the action as possible. We’ll do things differently next time. :-)
their=there, lol.
Welcome to Free Republic! Thank you for the wonderful first hand account of the rally and the pictures! That last picture of the three babies was too precious.:)
And by “an extra hour or two early,” I mean EARLIER than whatever time you THINK you might need to get there!! Lol.
What is really neat is the young people like Sarah so much. The young ladies must like her as a role model. The guys think she is cute but also like her. :-)
I think the secret the MSM is not mentioning is Sarah is probably attracting more young people now that Obama. She is also younger than Obambi. I bet it really drives the MSM nuts. I know Sarah is driving Obama’s internal pollsters nuts.
She is really connecting with people especially in the Midwest and SE where she has been having most of her rallies.
I lump PA in with the Midwest because the people are simliar. I know a PA lady who disagrees and says central & western PA people can be mean. LOL! Well Eagles fans did boo Santa.
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She is scheduled to speak at 7:00. Doors open at 4:00. I am hoping to be there by a little after 3:00. Would get there earlier but my daughter has to work. She will get off and go back after the rally. She is 22 and very excited to see her. I wish she was going to be at a larger venue but we’ll just do the best we can. I am really looking forward to it. I believe she will be the first woman president.
> What is really neat is the young people like Sarah so
> much. The young ladies must like her as a role model.
Absolutely. I’d say that’s definitely the case with my daughter. :-)
My advice based on our experience here in Springfield: get there by 2 o’clock, if not earlier. If not earlier. Maybe you could go earlier than your daughter if need be, carry a cell phone, and reserve a slot in line. Then you two can make contact by cell phone and you can get her in too.
It might not be necessary, but based on our experience here I’d consider it a good idea.
Sorry, I think I got an extra “if not earlier” in there. Lol.
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