Posted on 09/03/2011 7:04:06 AM PDT by rintense
Live thread for the Restoring America Tea Party event and Sarah Palin's speech!
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS (11am CDT - 2PM)
Bands and vocalists
Tea Party of America Co-founder Ken Crow will welcome the crowd and recognize veterans in attendance
Bagpipe music from the Mackenzie Highlanders
Pastor Warren Rogers of the Faith Church of the Nazarene in Des Moines will sing a hymn and give the invocation.
Russ Saffell of the Des Moines Tea Party will lead the Pledge of Allegiance
Carrie and Stacie Stoelting, two sisters from Iowa, will sing the National Anthem
Simon Conway, conservative talk show host with WHO Radio in Des Moines
Sam Clovis, conservative talk show host with KSCJ 1360 AM in Sioux City
Tony Katz of Pajamas Media
Tennessee-based recording artist Krista Branch will sing her song I am American a song often used by the Herman Cain campaign
The Stoelting sisters sing Battle Hymn of the Republic
Eric Golub, a Los Angeles-based political comedian
Branch sings another song
Ryan Rhodes, founder of the Iowa Tea Party
California-based recording artist Steve Vaus will sing We must take America Back while the music video plays
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin
Stoelting sisters sing God Bless America
Yeah,she was great,I look to see much more from her.
Wow not many people in the crowd. When Sarah speaks in SoCal she gets thousands, even if it’s pay to get in.
LOL! I heard this guy’s voice.. thought it was Ray Stevens... “It’s me again Margret” :^)
Sad story though..
Still over an hour away for Sarah. And it’s been pouring rain there all morning.
Looks like an hour until Sarah. The Drivebys must be apoplectic. Sarah and the Tea party, their worst nightmare! Here comes all the DBM lies. If they ever told the truth zeros popularity would be “0”.
Fer crying out loud.
It’s not SoCal.
If it was SoCal nobody would be there, because they’d be stuck in traffic.
Show of hands for surprised ! LOL
No crowd audio, no crowd shots worth a damn.
Take that back, just had a crowd shot .. fair size, several hundreds visible, but still lots of umbrellas and who knows how many sheltered away from main crowd.
Well, the Founding Father are rolling in their graves now for what destruction the socialists have done over the last half century :/
Wow thanks! She is really beautiful!
This comedian from LA is doing pretty good!
Seriously, both times I’ve seen her here, the number of people who show blow my minds! There are a lot of us hiding under rocks here in enemy territory.
CSpan just panned wide, LOTS of people there. Don’t ask me for an estimate.
It is almost a non-event. Oh the networks are going to have a field day with this small group of lawn chairs and umbrellas. No wonder she's not announcing today.
Minds=mind. Trying to type with one finger while holding newborn.
I saw it too. Some just won’t be satisfied, though.
tonykatz Tony Katz
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That’s Tony Katz the one who spoke earlier estimate of crowd size.
I would think many are waiting in their cars for Sarah...but not sure.
Envious, beyond description...
At this rate, you can bet Iowa won’t fall in the blue column next year.
Where did we hear she wasn’t announcing today?
She’s an hour away, Semper. Watch the crowd grow exponentially.
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