We love you too, Sarah!
Posted on 10/23/2008 5:06:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Despite recent polls showing Democrat Barack Obama moving ahead of Republican John McCain in several key battleground states, including Ohio, GOP faithful remain optimistic. More than 12,000 turned out Tuesday at Green High School near Akron to cheer the ticket on. ideastream®'s Kymberli Hagelberg has this report. The folks who crowded into the bleachers and onto the football field at Green High School near Akron didn’t care that Barack Obama still has a slight lead in the polls. The message they were waiting to hear was coming from John McCain. It was the same message that has been coming into their living rooms in the latest McCain ad.
“I’m Joe the plumber, I’m joe the plumber, I’m joe the plumber.; Obama wants my sweat to pay for his trillion dollars in new spending. I’m Joe the plumber.Barack Obama. Higher taxes, more spending, not ready.”
McCain’s running mate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, seized on ad’s message that Obama favors redistributing wealth.
Palin: “It doesn’t sound like many of you are going to be supporting “Barack the W\wealth spreader” in this election.”
McCain said that Obama’s plan would take money from working people and give it to those who who don’t work and don’t pay taxes.
McCain: “That’s the key to Barack Obama’s whole plan. Since you can’t reduce tax to those who pay zero, the government will write them all checks called a tax credit, and the treasury will have to cover those checks, by taxing other people, including a lot of folks just like Joe.”
Neither McCain nor Palin mentioned former Bush secretary of State, General Colin Powell’s endorsement of Obama last weekend. Instead, McCain used Democratic VP nominee Joe Biden’s remarks on Sunday, that the world will quote “test Obama in the first six months,” to insist the he, not the Illinois senator is fit to be president.
McCain: “Senator Biden referred to how Jack Kennedy was tested in the Cuban missile crisis. I had a little personal experience on that. I was a pilot on board the USS Enterprise. I know how close we came to a nuclear war, and I will not be a president that needs to be tested.”
Since the last debate, McCain was behind Obama in polls in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania by at least eight points.However, in a nationwide polls by the the Associated press and Washington Post, released Wednesday, Obama has just a slight lead. McCain supporter Gaynelle Mosely thinks the polls are fixed to depress turnout for McCain.
Mosely: “I don’t believe in polls, I think everything is rigged.”
Sisters Moseley and Louise Keesler aren’t happy about their shared belief that this election, like Bush v. Gore, will end up in the courts.. And they’re not too happy about the way the media treats Sarah Palin either.
Mosely: “I did watch Saturday night live or part of it.”
Keesler: “I gotta say that our mother was a Gibson. And I hope we’re not related to Charlie Gibson.” Mosely: “Me too.”
Country stars Lee Greenwood and Gretchen Wilson were part of a two hour warmup before McCain, Palin, their spouses and Palin daughters Willow and Piper took the stage.
The crowd sang along with Greenwoods’ athem “God bless the USA”. And they cheered Wilson when she dedicated the 70s hit “Barracuda” by the rock group Heart to Palin , despite the Heart’s well publicized objections to the use of the song by the McCain/Palin campaign.
Ironically, in this race where candidates fight for the allegiance of the little guy, the Barracuda in the song is a greedy big businessman.
She looks BEAUTIFUL! JUST beautiful!...and her children...just lovely...I’m sorry if I’m teary eye...I just want her to be in our WH sooooo bad....PLEASE DEAR LORD help us win!
Have they hit Steubenville, yet?? Big Catholic community there.
I guess 12,000 people keep showing up at rallies like these to see just how much of a “drag” Sarah Palin is on the ticket, or at least Chuck Todd and the British press keep telling us that’s the reason.
Both will be here on Sunday! I can’t believe it! I can’t go but it’s nice that they are taking the time to stop here. Big Catholic community here too.
DEMAND Mccain/Palin fight Obama back! NAME NAMES!
Ayers! Wright! Frank Davis! Odinga!
McCain will NOT attack enough to win the election.
McCain’s anemic attempts to fight Obama back is losing this election. DEMAND THEY EXPOSE OBAMA. NAME NAMES!!
Flood him out with emails with videos, articles, documentation.
Flood the MSM out with emails with videos, articles, documentation. DEMAND they put the truth before the American voters!
Please go to
http://www.protestthemedia.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7
and pick up all the email addresses to the McCain camp and HUNDREDS of emails of MSM.
“McCain will NOT attack enough to win the election.” It must just be frosting your smarmy ass that McCain will not run his campaign as you demand, n00b.
I read that Sarah was a "drag on the Republican ticket"!
oh RoseofTexas!!!!! me too!! I have been weeping for a month now. The last two days has been a LOT! Oh GOD yes.... please YES!!!!!
Guys, I’m in southern OH, but Akron doesn’t strike me as being “red” at all. For McCain to get this excitement in the north-—am I missing something?
Be still my beating heart.
We have to hand it to Todd he is one lucky dude!
I’ve seen her live twice. And in the West Chester, Ohio event , on a cold morning on a Tuesday, she had about 4,000,5,000 waiting for hours to see her. After that event , she signed my home made GO SARAH GO sign! Then she looked me right in the eyes and said “Thanks for your support”.
I sure don’t remember Akron being red. IMHO this bodes well for McCain/Palin with that kind of excitement in Northeast Ohio.
Lucky you! If I were you, I'd never wash those eyes again!;)
I just had to post this picture again.
The first dude has a very smart and beautiful wife. If McPalin runs even or just a percent or two behind in NE Ohio then 0bama doesn't have a chance there.
And now she’s back in PA. Hmmmm.
Pssssttt! McCain/Palin are winning.
According to the ladies around here he ain't exactly chopped liver!
“The first dude has a very smart and beautiful wife.”
The first dude is one lucky dude. She’s intelligent, gorgeous, feisty, Conservative, and did I mention gorgeous? It just seems that all Conservative women are a combination of the above while liberal women remind me of a shitzu.
Hmmmm is right! Still cannot get over the turnout in Akron.
I was there in Green yesterday it was Awesome!
Great pix! Now I’m really jealous!
Whaa?? See the formula? One sentence of editorial, followed by a sentence of news reporting, but all labeled as news reporting. Why would McCain/Palin mention Colin Powell?? Why would that information be expected at a McCain-Palin rally? Duh!
Report the news and leave the editorials to the editorial page, ok?
I know! it’s usually a blue triangle from Columbus to Cleveland with the NE area predominately blue. I’m amazed. If there is this turn out in that area McCain has Ohio.
Ignore the Englandistan press. England is through thanks to PC leftists like Obama.
On the crowds let me bring something up. We see Palin/McCain crowds. People here are posting pictures. Those are real people and real BIG Numbers.
One person here today posted Obama in Tampa, FL not long ago. McCain is leading in that very important swing section of FL.
Obama was in Tampa which is the 3rd or 4th largest city in FL. Sarah had been to Clearwater just across the bay. They are very close and compared to our sprawl in SE FL - they are smaller less populated areas. Tampa is a big city while Clearwater is much smaller.
A FR member here posted a picture of Obama and the crowd in Tampa and I almost fell of my chair. It looked like MAYBE 3,000 people showed up and possibly less. The place could hold 11,000. Another FR member posted pics from same Tampa venue in 2004 with Bush and it was packed.
Sarah was across the bay in Clearwater within a month or a few weeks of Obama. She pulled somewhere around 20,000 people. Clearwater did not want that many people and were discouraging people from coming. The news and radio they were telling people not to come.
Obama is a freeping scam. His rallies need Springsteen, Bon Jovi, a basketball game next door (miami the other day) with the Heat playing right after the rally or some scam or giveaway to get people to show up.
McCain is pulling crowds as big as Obama, Sarah is pulling 2 x or 2.5 x the crowds while Biden is lucky to get 500 people show up. Sarah is pulling corwds of 11,000 is fairly rural CO at 7 am in the rain at 40 deg F!!
Sarah is pretty, nice, a star, loveable etc etc but she is also a conservative and this is another main reason why she is pulling huge crowds.
Obama’s rallies are a scam. We never see all the pictures of them because the size of the rallies is small. Yeah St. Louis, a concert in Left Wing Berlin, a few other decent sized rallies but these small rallies mena his support is much weaker than these fake polls indicate.
Ignore the polls, donate and volunteer.
I love those boots.
On her...I mean.
Yeah, I've been on Cloud 9 ever since. The first time I hear her speak live and I get her autograph and super pics too!
Boots! We have boots?
Be still my beating heart.
Wow, Sarah.
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