Posted on 12/02/2008 10:03:05 AM PST by HomeschoolMomma
Well I braved the cold and rain and packed my husband and daughter (in her crown and sash) and went to the Gwinnett Arena in Atlanta. We got there about two hours ahead and we got there before the crowds were starting to form. It was chilly and wet outside, so they started letting people in to the building early. While most made a bee-line for the front of the stage, we instead scoped out the staging and chose to park ourselves near what looked to be a staging area. (Good thing I have a background in stage management – it paid off) We were right by where everyone was coming in and out – there was no way Palin couldn’t miss us!
I was told they had about 5000 RSVP’s. Half the arena was blocked for this and it was nearly full on the floor and first level. I would geusstimate about 6,000 or so showed up. For the most part, the crowd was well behaved. We had an invocation and then Saxby came out and spoke for all of two minutes. His wife Julianne was dressed so beautifully and stood by his side. My daughter and I had occasion to meet her and Saxby at the Republican picnic and she is so elegant and such a pleasant person. They are a lovely couple.
Then Saxby introduced Sarah! The crowds went NUTS!!!!!! For a woman who had been up at the crack of dawn and was on her fourth rally, besides a fund-raiser the previous night, you would not know it. She had such warmth and energy! My gosh – she really is as beautiful in person as she is on TV. I got to admit – she is HOT!!! (And that’s coming from a woman) My husband was disappointed that she wore pants – I thought that was funny! Both he and my son think she is One Hot Momma! I was surprised that she was as tiny as she is, she looked much taller on tv! Well, it was the usual stump speech – la,la,la …John McCain …la,la,la ...Drill, Baby, Drill, only this time “Saxby” was thrown in a couple of times and I do not believe I heard the word “maverick” even once ( Thank God!)
When it was over, she went around the stage near the barrier area to shake hands. That’s when I knew we picked the right spot. That’s when the PUSHING and SHOVING started! ADULTS were pushing and shoving trying to get to where my daughter was. My daughter is all of 4 feet 10 inches, even though she is 13, and is a teensy tiny ballerina. After what happened at Wal-Mart I was scared!!! Well, let me tell you, you do not mess with the momma bear!!! I had to lock my arms around my daughter and the barrier to keep her from getting trampled. My husband was literally pulling people off of me, but I held my ground and kept her from getting trampled! People were fighting for our spot! Then Palin came around and my daughter held up her sign. One side said “Miss Georgia Christian Loves Saxby and Sarah” and the other said “Gov. Palin – Please can I have a Photo-Op!” Well, not only did Sarah shake my daughters hand, sign her sign, but she stood for a picture with my daughter – making one little girls year! (I did not see her take the time to a picture with anyone else!) Even though they had the barrier between them, they still had their picture together and I am so thankful to Gov. Palin for the photo.
To be honest, it wasn’t the photo that was important, it was the fact that my daughter’s hero – the one person she admires most in the entire world, took a few seconds out of her incredibly busy day to acknowledge my daughters existence. WOW! Of all the world leaders she has met, and the superstars that have her attention and even her own family that needs her, Sarah Palin cared enough in that one moment of time to give my little girl a smile and take a picture with her! Thanks Sarah!
As I left the arena, I thanked God for giving my daughter that magic moment with Sarah Palin and I said a prayer that someday Lord, let my daughter grow up to be like Sarah Palin. May she have integrity, and honesty, work ethics and family values. Let her know that she can have it all, a husband, a family, and a career, and she doesn’t have to compromise herself or her beliefs to get it. May she always keep Christ in her heart at all times and help her to be the type of person that young girls can look up to – and moms can say proudly, “One day you can grow up to be just like her!”
Congratulations! That is one wonderful woman.
She looked really exhausted at the end of the campaign.
I hope she gets plenty of beauty sleep, and is tanned, rested, and ready in 2012.
PS: Great pics!
AWESOME!!! Good job!
Go Sarah!!!
Priceless pics!
The only thing that kills my daughter is that she will be 4 months shy of voting age in 2012! (Guess we better move to Ohio - LOL)
same thing in north fulton. bodes well for saxby. looks like martin couldn’t
get young jeezy vote out unless they are waiting to vote this afternoon.
hope not!
I live in a HUGE republican county, Paulding - overwhelmingly GOP. My husband waited around 15 minutes at 7 am. I went at ten. They had only 3 booths - one regular, one handicap, one provisional. There was no wait, but it was a steady stream. The poll worker said it had been steady all morning, usually five people at a time. I say it looks great for Saxby! But I am still praying - one can never have too many prayers!
There was a pretty good line (about a 30 minute wait) but that was for the whole county, only the main office was open. Mostly older folks, but quite a number of middle-aged people like ourselves who obviously had taken time off work to come vote. A fair number were black, I would say maybe a fifth to a quarter, no Hispanics or Asians that I saw.
My husband voted this morning first thing before work. He says there was nobody there when he showed up, 3 people in line when he left. It's a very conservative precinct, a few Martin signs but not many.
I recall that she said in one of her interviews that her husband Todd likes to say that she can sleep when she dies. In that same interview, she said that she typically operates on 4 or 5 hours sleep.
I swear the lady is Wonder Woman (which is perhaps why Linda Carter felt the need to diss her -- fearful of competition?).
Maybe it comes from growing up on fresh fish and game and produce instead of the chemical grocery store junk the rest of us eat.
I often think Sarah Palin is a startling echo of figure from a now distant past -- the frontier woman. Startling because we've forgotten that it was tough courageous women who were willing to cross an uncharted wilderness with kids in tow to settle the American west.
Great “After Action Report.” Thanks.
Martin’s rally with Ludacris drew only “several hundred.”
Apparently Chambliss didn’t think she’d be a drag on his ticket. One commentary I read said that Chambliss was reduced to being the warm up act for his own rally. That was funny. All Gov. Palin has to do over the next few years is stay in the public eye (which shouldn’t be too hard,) read and study a lot, and if changes for a win against obama look good, she’d be the front runner, as of now, anyway. I wish her all the best.
Sober, quiet voters.
Gwinette County Civic Center manager confirmed the crowd estimate above: just under 6,000 at the see-Sarah-run (er, Saxby) rally. Only a few hundred apparently at the downtown Martin rapper-rally.
We all know Wonder Woman wears Sarah Palin pajamas!
(Of course, 30 is looking younger all the time!)
Good Job MOM!!!!
I wish I had known there were other FREEPers there too!!!!
"The Prairie is my Garden", by Harvey Dunn, one of my favorite American artists. I can't find his painting titled "Frontier Woman" on line -- but it's a steely-eyed young woman leaning casually on the handle of a shovel or rake, looking at the far horizon in the Dakotas.
"The cowards never started, and the weak died by the way."
There were quite a few of us I believe. I know of at least 4.
Okay...all FREEPers who were there say “aye” and which one you were at!
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