McCain-Palin becoming Palin-McCain?
Published Saturday, September 6, 2008
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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.
In the short time since McCain spirited the 44-year-old first-term governor out of Alaska and onto a national stage as his running mate, Palin has become an instant celebrity. And since her speech at the Republican National Convention, watched by more than 40 million Americans, she is emerging as the main attraction for many voters at their campaign appearances.
"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.
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.
After a day of talking up economic themes in the Midwest, the pair attracted thousands at a rally in Colorado Springs, a city at the foot of Pike's Peak that is home to many conservatives and military families. They were to head later to New Mexico.
It was McCain's first appearance in Colorado since the Democrats had their convention in Denver last month.
Both campaigns consider the battleground state in play with the election less than two months away.
"Colorado, it's going to be a hard-fought battle here," Palin said. As soon as she began speaking, a group of supporters interrupted her with a cheer of "Sa-rah! Sa-rah!"
Palin is even getting the star treatment from celebrity magazines, Web sites and television programs, which have played up her personal story as a mother of five children, one of whom is 17 years old, unmarried and pregnant.
The excitement with which people are turning out to see Palin could complicate a key line of attack that the McCain campaign has been building against Democrat Barack Obama for months.
Republicans have sought to cast Obama's support as nothing more than shallow adoration and hype befitting a movie star. They have mocked his appeal among Hollywood types and compared his star status to that of lightweights like Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. They say there is nothing of substance to back up the candidacy of the Illinois senator.
Palin herself asked in her convention speech what happens "when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's plan?"
Obama has been careful in his comments about her, saying Saturday that she has flip-flopped on spending earmarks, but also calling her a "skillful politician."
Voters interviewed at rallies said their support for McCain has been cemented with his pick of Palin, who is a social conservative and reassures many who were wary about McCain on those issues.
Patricia Hoskins said she was already backing McCain but that Palin "really lit the fire under me."
And in the brief time that McCain and Palin have been campaigning since she introduced herself to the nation, many women at their events have said they identify with her personal struggles.
"She's every mom," said Lindsey Denny, a mother of 7, including a set of quintuplets, two of whom have special needs like Palin's infant son with Down syndrome. Denny said Palin's inclusion on the ticket was "110 percent" the reason why she went to see her Saturday.
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Palin in BIG letters, Mccain in tiny letters.
Not unexpected that the spiraling Marxists are doing everything that they can to attempt to denigrate a man that they cannot understand in their instinctual loathing of America. The pro-Marxists who are following the Classic Mud Slinger's Play Book of the Chicago Scum Political Machine's operations are doing everything that they can, like the old time "MAGICIANS" to sow dissension into the ranks of the successful MaCain/Palin campaign operations, to denigrate their opponents. The Chicago Mud Slinging Political Machine now operates in Media outlets through Socialist (most recently Marxist) University Trained "JOURNALISM GRADUATES" and the supporting blog-o-sphere posters.
In addition to the foregoing the Chicago Scum Trained Marxist disinformation specialists use these "DIVERSIONS" of the discourse to prevent the general ELECTORATE, that means all of us in what they derisively call "FLY OVER COUNTRY", from spending too much time thinking about, examining and assessing the true MARXIST nature of the Barack Husssein Obama foreign funding supported political Revolutionaries.
One has to understand that the remaining Agenda of Revolution through the use of the Institutional Process by Barack Hussein Obama has as its sole remaining hope their machinations at hiding the truly vacuous nature of the Marxist Barack Hussein Obama. The Chicago Scum Suckers act as if the common sense Americans in "FLY OVER COUNTRY" are too STUPID to understand their actual agenda of STEALING, through their TAXATION OF INCOME EARNERS, and giving the money to those who actually ARE STUPID enough and LAZY enough to become completely indoctrinated into the Marxist "THE GOVERNMENT OWES ME" and needs to punish those who are "TAKING ADVANTAGE OF US POOR FOLKS" type of NON-THINKERS...
The Scum who think they know best are trying to destroy The America that we all know. We need to "Pat them on the head" and LAUGH at the Marxist Morons.
Andrew, ya nut case, yer comments dont fit this story. The story was about Palin's celebrity overshadowing McCain's celebrity. Your blah blah Marxist Sociialist Mud Slinging Chicago blah blah blah gibbersih is relevant here. Did you even READ the story? This was overall, a POSITIVE Palin story. Duh.
She seems to be popular with conservative Republicans. Anyone hear anything about how independent voters feel about her? She isn't really helping McCain's campaign if people who were already planning to vote for him now feel better about that vote. But what about people who were on the fence? I'm curious.
If McCain doesn't win this election, I think we can see where the republicans are headed in four years. I think Palin should hold a spot open for a presidential run in the next election.
Arctic_Lynx......are you serious? Palin run for president in four years?? Did the nation just not learn an extremely hard lesson about appointing/electing an unqualified candidate to the highest office in the land? You want a repeat of the nightmare known as the Bush Administration? Give me a break!!
yup.... win or lose palin is a player on the national stage and quite possibly a future president. if mccain loses this one (very possible) then she could run in 4 years. very possible that obama would be just a one term president.
Andrew,
That was great, the way you wrote.
I have no idea what the heck you were trying to get accross but it sure sounded good, wacked and far out, kind of a little sicko, twisted, but all I can say is " Top of the line writing.
Like some kind of weird movie like SAW or like Brando in Apocalypse Now.
"I watched a snail crawl the length of a razor blade".
Great writing Andrew, I hope to read more in the future.
Patrick - and you think a junior Senator is qualified??? No way in hell... especially a racist junior Senator who has NO IDEA about running the armed forces!
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