‘Sarah Palin is a happening.’
I was visiting my daughter in the Denver area during the Dems convention there in ‘08.
On the last day of that convention, I walked the streets of the 16th St. Mall, wearing my McCain buttons.
For hours I walked around, shopped, ate, displaying all those buttons and no one said anything to me. . .
Then, as I walked to my Light Rail stop to return to my daughter’s, a man, about 65, ‘admired’ my buttons, so we chatted for a bit.
As we were about to part, he asked me who I thought would be McCain’s V.P. pick. I tossed off a few names, saying ‘but not him,’ because of this or that, etc.
Then I said, ‘but then there’s Sarah Palin - - ‘
That stranger shook my hand and said, ‘She’s my pick, too!!!’
We parted, I got back to daughter’s, went to bed, woke up next morning, turned on the guest room T.V., and there it was: MCCAIN HAD ANNOUNCED SARAH PALIN FOR HIS V.P.!!!
I could only imagine what the man in Denver who stopped me, was thinking!
We both picked Sarah!
Folks, I’m not remembering now how I first heard about Sarah-with-an-h back then, but there it is.
I simply thought she had a shot at the ticket.
There has always been something about Sarah Palin. It’s like electricity crackling all the time. You can almost see it.
Here’s Bill Kristol suggesting McCain pick Palin as VP in June of 2008 because of her energy credentials.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNr_LZpMHqA