PALIN DRAWS CROWD OF 70,000 IN THE VILLAGES (FLORIDA RALLY 9/21/08)

News-Press | Sunday, September 21, 2008 | Bill Cotterell

[MinuteGal]

I was at the Villages for the Bush rally in '04. I got there early so I was lucky to get a seat in the air-conditioned auditorium.

I hot-footed it outside when the Prez was done speaking and positioned myself right behind the street rope facing the door he would come out.

Out he strode, glad-handing the crowd, our little group let out a chorus of squeals, hah....he heard, he turned, he zeroed in on us, he crossed the street.....and shook our hands. Ladies, he's even more tanned and handsome than he appears on the tube.

I wish I'd been there for Sarah, but I'm in Illinois right now winding up my snowbird gig. I hope she comes to the Sunshine State again. She may just do so as Florida is so pivotal. I'll drive a fur peece to see her, that's for sure.

McCain/Palin will TAKE FLORIDA like a trout takes a fly! You can count on it!

Leni

[kristinn]

And they didn’t note the “correction.”

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Not according to Plouffe in the news today. They may as well have in reality, but they can’t fold it yet and show that the political a$$kicking is underway against nObama. They stated that North Dakota was a quagmire and they were getting out but said the rest are in play.

[mplsconservative]

That should make douchebag Andrew Sullivan’s rear hurt.

Er, um, okay...

[STARWISE]

McCAIN ON 60 MINS. NOW

[mware]

A couple years ago when Tony invited a bunch of us FReepers to visit him at Fox Studios, surferboy was there most of the time. I think he was Tony's radio show producer. Both men spoke so lovingly about their family and I think Griff wife had just had a baby.

[livius]

70,000 is the population of the town (actually, towns), but the crowd that came to see her was estimated by the fire chief at 70,000, which would be 20,000 inside the ticketed area and 50,000 on the field with the jumbo monitors outside. Someone else estimated it to be about 100,000, incidentally.

[dfwgator]

McCain just lost my vote when he said that Andrew Cuomo would be a good choice for SEC chairman, is he nuts?

[Red_Devil 232]

They have pulled their ads out of Georgia also!

[Ben Reyes]

And Sarah didn’t have a hip-hop group as an opener.

[livius]

That must have been exciting. I was surprised at how handsome Bush was, too, when I saw him in 2004. He looked much better in person than on TV. I wish I could have gotten to the Villages today (I live near Jacksonville), but I had to work.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Yes they have. That was taken off the table a while back. Plouffe ignored it since it was already gone.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Well... did they count all of the people who “wanted” to be there... or maybe the people who watched it on TV...

[eyedigress]

Get us some pics next time. I think she’ll be back.

[Doogle]

BHO drew 200,000 in Berlin

..to see a free rock concert

[Aria]

70k and no seats, no styrofoam Greek columns, no fireworks....just the hot sun and Sarah.

This gives me BIG hope!

[bkwells]

So did anyone go to the link and click on the slide show for they had for both Obama and McCain? They had 25 pics for Obama and only 9 for McCain!! Yep... no bias here /s

[Miss Didi]

Thanks, Star...I was watching a painful Lifetime movie. ;) I’ve been thinking of Tony lately; he surely is smiling down from Heaven.

[Red_Devil 232]

Could they have pulled out of Georgia because the state is going to enforce voter ID? ACORN may not have figured out how to scam it yet.LOL

[AFreeBird]

Big deal, BHO drew 200,000 in Berlin. Oh, wait, Sarah’s crowd are actual voters.

Actual AMERICANS!