blatherings

sarah has drawn a massive crowd in florida.  it seems 60,000 people showed up in a state which many say is still in play. let’s hope sarah puts it into the mcpalin column.

Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin told wildly cheering, flag-waving, chanting supporters that John McCain is “the only great man in this race” and promised Sunday he will fix the nation’s economy if voters give the GOP four more years in the White House.

“He won’t say this, so I’ll say it for him,” the Alaska governor said in an almost confidential tone at the close of her first Florida stump speech. “There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you. John McCain wore the uniform of his country for 22 years — talk about tough.”

“Sa-Rah! Sa-Rah!” they chanted at every mention of her name, applauding loudly and waiving tiny American flags that were distributed — along with free water bottles — by local volunteers. The fire chief estimated the crowd at 60,000.

Admiring throngs mobbed the Palin family’s arrival and departure, snapping souvenir pictures. Autograph seekers thrust campaign signs, caps with the McCain-Palin logo and copies of magazines with her face on their covers, and the Palins responded warmly.

you can watch a video of the rally here from one of the local stations.

crank it!

so you may have already seen this….  i am still behind in my blogging from my trip to DC.  but this is alot of fun! 

by now you know Sarah and Todd Palin have unusual names for their 5 kids:  track, bristol, willow, piper and trig.  if sarah were your mom what would she name you?  go to the “sarah palin baby name generator” and find out!

mine is clever i think:  strike chipper palin.  at any event, it sounds very alaskan and very palin!

pds.  palin derangement syndrome.  the cousin of course to bds - bush derangement syndrome.  interestingly, its only the leftards that suffer from this.  check it out:

have you seen this?  turn it up.

you can go here to see where it got it’s start.

mccain/palin ‘08

photo:  sweasle

you can read the transcript of jmac’s speech here.  i have to say there were moments that were very compelling. 

though i had heard it from others many times, i cried like a baby as he told his own POW story.  when he explained his life of service and that it was while there in a 6×4 ft box - broken teeth, broken limbs, beaten, scarred, tortured - that he fell in love with his country because “my country saved me,”  that did it for me.  he may be an old guy but he’s my old guy.

people it’s time to go shopping!

gov. sarah palin rocked the house last night at the republican convention.  after all she and her family have been through - ridiculed unmercifully as white trash, a hick, a small-town beauty queen nobody - i was in awe at her composure, wit, confidence, knowledge and presence. 

sarah did a beautiful job and made it very clear that “barracuda” means something.  she called out the media and the leftists for their smears.  she called out obama and biden for their utter hypocrisy.  she championed mccain as a servant leader and the greatness of our country.

she was not shrill nor angry.  she simply delivered.  she was indeed a breath of fresh air from the stuffy campaign of mccain and outrageously presumptuous campaign of obama.  i can say she was what i needed to be energized from merely a protest vote of obama to a full fledged support of the mccain/palin ticket.

i hope you saw that too.   here is the transcript.

oh come on, you know this was cute.  how many of us have either had this done to us or did it ourselves!!!  i just hope a rumor doesn’t get started that piper is trig’s real mommy.  :cough:

“When they attack one personally it means they haven’t a single political argument left.”  Margaret Thatcher.

many assumed evangelical christians would be appalled and super charged by the circumstances of sarah palin’s daughter.  but actually its been evangelicals who are among the last people who’d judge her harshly. it is the left that is about to go crazy with puritan judgments and outraged speeches — they are positively frothing at the mouth; hissing and spitting like creatures from the abyss.

the critics who condemn the legitimacy of small town mayorship - palin had two terms in Wasilla, Alaska, population 9,000 or so.   here’s a fact:  here are 262 cities in this country with a population of 100,000 or more. but there are close to a hundred thousand small towns with ten thousand people or less.

“You do the math,” the conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway said. “We are a nation of Wasillas, not Chicagos.”

there are so so many rumors out there being called “facts”  - not always republican, not vetted, not really wanted by mccain, gonna be dropped by mccain, troopergate, hillbilly, trailer trash, and on and on and on and on….

this can only mean that Sarah Palin represents an apoplectic fear on the left that says to them “smear her, destroy her now or we lose again.”  shameful.

blow the roof off the place tonite Sarah! 

h/t  kathleen

UPDATE:  have you seen the website palinfacts?  its great and rivals the jack bauer vs chuck norris ones believe it or not.  here are a few samples: 

• Sarah Palin isn’t allowed to wield the gavel at the convention because they’re afraid she’ll use it to kill liberals.
• Sarah Palin once won a competitive eating contest by devouring three live caribou.
• Sarah Palin once carved a perfect likeness of the Mona Lisa in a block of ice using only her teeth.
• Sarah Palin will pry your Klondike bar from your cold dead fingers.
• Sarah Palin doesn’t need a gun to hunt. She has been known to throw a bullet through an adult bull elk.
• Sarah Palin had the original idea to drop the “e” from Flickr.
• Sarah Palin is the reason compasses point North.

bill kristol on sarah palin, hockey mom

“McCain aides whose judgment I trust are impressed by Sarah Palin. One was particularly amused by this exchange: A nervous young McCain staffer took it upon himself to explain to Palin the facts of life in a national campaign, the intense scrutiny she’d be under from the media, the viciousness of the assault that she’d be facing, etc.:

Palin: “Thanks for the warning. By the way, do you know what they say the difference is between a hockey mom and a Pit Bull?”

McCain aide: “No, Governor.”

Palin: “A hockey mom wears lipstick.”

sweet!