Originally Posted By Darkbeer <a href="http://news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080921/NEWS0107/80921022" target="_blank">http://news-press.com/apps/pbc...80921022</a> >>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." The Villages, a vast, upscale planned community north of Orlando, has about 70,000 mostly adult residents -- many of them military retirees -- who vote reliably Republican in statewide races. Tens of thousands inched along roads into the picturesque town square of the complex, where they stood in sweltering heat for about four hours as local GOP officials and a country band revved up the crowd. "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.<<
Originally Posted By Mr X Is Florida even in contention this time? I thought it was an automatic "red" state. Isn't Jeb Bush still the Governor there?
Originally Posted By Darkbeer Heck, at least Governor Plain took time out yesterday to spend time with her family at WDW.....
Originally Posted By hopemax Yes, Florida is in contention, just like the last couple of elections. It's been "leaning McCain" most of the time though. Fivethiryeight.com, in their simulations, have McCain winning 57% of the time, Obama 43%. Charlie Crist is the current Governor. He was elected in the Nov 2006 election. He was previously FL's AG.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>he will fix the nation's economy if voters give the GOP four more years in the White House<< predictably making no mention, of course, of which party has held the White House over the last 8. LOL
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>John McCain wore the uniform of his country for 22 years -- talk about tough.<< At least she's dealing with the important issues in this campaign and not attempting to distract.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>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.<< When's she ever going to change her stump speech? It's high time she went back to the mother ship for another software update. On a related note, when is the Conservatively-biased MSM going to quit reporting the exact identical same stump speech as if it's something new?
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>when is the Conservatively-biased MSM going to quit reporting the exact identical same stump speech as if it's something new?<< funny you should ask... <a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1424780.aspx" target="_blank">http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com...780.aspx</a> >>As of yesterday, Sarah Palin had delivered 14 campaign speeches since her well-received address more than two weeks ago at the Republican National Convention. And each time, she's packed in thousands of excited Republicans eager to see this new star of the GOP. But those waiting for hours to listen to her could hear the same thing -- or something close to it -- simply by pressing play on a TiVO recording of her acceptance speech. Or clicking on to a YouTube clip of that Sept. 3 address. “In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.” According to this reporter's count, she has delivered this line more than a dozen times. “There's a time for politics and a time for leadership, a time to campaign and a time to put our country first,” she says nearly every time as well. She almost always ends with, “There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you.” And, of course, she says this: “I told the Congress, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’ on that Bridge to Nowhere. If our state wanted to build a bridge, we were going to build it ourselves.” In fact, because fact-checkers have said the statement is misleading, she gets more attention when she doesn’t include that line than when she does. Indeed, her stump speech has deviated very little from that convention speech in St. Paul. She continues to introduce herself to audiences primarily with biographical detail, stories from her time in Alaska, and praise for McCain -- rarely straying from the words on her Teleprompter. And the crowd eats it up every time. Each Palin rally is akin to a rock concert: Most of the audience knows the words and could probably even sing along. So they get a heavy dose of the artist’s greatest hits and little of the new stuff. Palin did address the financial crisis on Monday -- saying the market system “needs some shakin’ up and some fixin’” -- but she quickly reverted back to her standard remarks.<<
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Palin did address the financial crisis on Monday -- saying the market system “needs some shakin’ up and some fixin’”<< Yee-hawww! Hogtie them cotton' pickin' credit default swaps and toss 'em on the wagon. We ride tonight!
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Originally Posted By mawnck >>you show all the woman haters that a woman can do it all!<< Yep, she can read from a teleprompter, deliver a speech that's on a teleprompter in front of her, AND even recite a text that is scrolling on a small screen known as a teleprompter. She's fantasmagorical!
Originally Posted By mele <<>>Palin did address the financial crisis on Monday -- saying the market system “needs some shakin’ up and some fixin’”<<>> Good Christ...I lived in Alaska for years, including a few years with my uncle from Oklahoma, and I never heard anyone talk like this. No wonder the same people who fell for Bush are gushing about Palin. Nation of idiots.
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Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Shakin up and fixins -- isn't that what is included in a box of Shake 'n Bake?
Originally Posted By WorldDisney LOL, so I guess 'her people' have shielded her from basic interviews, you figure at the very least she can make a few changes to her speeches in different area's, right? What suprises me is that these people are eating it up like mooseburgers and the woman has not said not one substantial thing other than McCain is the man and she's a hard working everyday woman like the rest of them...and that's it! WOW, and we wonder how Bush got into office--twice!
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Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >> you figure at the very least she can make a few changes to her speeches in different area's, right<< Yeah, you'd think. But it isn't happening. Interviews are few and far between, then it's another time around the track with a speech from a few weeks ago. But she's ready to be president, by golly. She didn't blink. Because you can't ever blink when you want to shake things up. Blinking is bad. Confidence is more important than qualifications.
Originally Posted By mele <<But she's ready to be president, by golly. She didn't blink. Because you can't ever blink>> People with dry eyeballs are not on trial here!
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Originally Posted By fkurucz >>John McCain wore the uniform of his country for 22 years -- talk about tough.<< And he'll stand by the middle class the way he stood by his first wife. He would never ditch us to run off with some rich you know what.
