One anti-abortion Palin supporter at the event shoved two graphic photos of aborted fetuses in front of a Times-Shamrock reporter.“This is why I’m voting for her. They stand against this,” said West Wyoming resident Maryann Yorina. “They stand for babies. They stand for God.”
Others said Palin represents a fresh start for the country because she’s not from Washington. Meg and Peter Siegel, vacationing in Pennsylvania from Vienna, Va., said they feel like they know Palin.“She gives an accurate representation of middle America,” Siegel said.
Note that these three rally participants seem to think Palin is the driving force of the ticket, with the first actually stating she's voting "for Palin," apparently under the mistaken impression that the vice-president bullies the President around (understandable I suppose after 8 years of Cheney). I also find it humorous that the couple vacationing from Vienna, VA, a few stops from DC on the Orange Line, are pleased Governor Palin isn't from Washington (although McCain's quarter-century tenure there doesn't seem to faze them). I disagree with them about whether her over-the-top mimicry of aw-shucks lunch counter locals is an "accurate representation of middle America." Outside of redneck stereotypes (see Hee-Haw, Dukes of Hazzard, and Beverly Hillbillies), I've never seen a speech so full of gosh-darnits, you betchas, and the like...and that includes Bobby Bowden post-game interviews.
Beyond that, you get the sense that she is drawing -- and intends to draw -- only the hard-core true believers. At this point in the campaign, she and McCain have to hope the die hard Republican base shows up, because if the Black Helicopter, Obama-as-Muslim, International Jewish Banking Conspiracy, registered Democrats-as-traitors wack-jobs don't come out, McCain-Palin will simply be trounced and what's worse is that the Senate and House races will be lost.
So she needs to energize the fanatics who haven't managed to develop critical thinking skills or are so hard-line that they are the 27% who still approve of Bush's job handling...
Update: I took this video from the Daily Kos website...it's a great look at Palin's core supporters and what happens when you waste your mind.
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I would be happy if I found out Palin got ass cancer.
LB: I'd be happy if Palin lost it and just came out blaming the "Jewish media" for attacking her.
Ok, I know that was a cruel thing to say, but she brings out something visceral in me. I just think she represents everything that's wrong with the people in this country: uninformed, and proud of it; uninterested in what goes on outside her stupid little town; believes in superstitious crap; gives a fuck about the environment; on and on and on...
Couldn't resist the swipe at Saint Bobby, could you?!?
You may have seen this already; I just caught it today and thought at once, I bet Cuff would like this....
It's "our" Sarah -- Silverman -- on the importance of getting your Jewish grandparents in Florida to vote for Obama. Classic opening line: "If you knew that visiting your grandparents could change the world, would you do it? Of course you would. You'd have to be a douchenozzle not to."
It's at the thegreatschlep.com site.
Jes: I didn't think of that Bowden comment as a swipe, I'm just saying that even someone who's relatively famous for saying "dadgum" doesn't trot the folksy catchphrase out every other word. The whole idea of the great schlep is hilarious, and I'm looking for Todd Palin to be drunk in Juneau some night spouting off about how "the Jews were against us...they're always against us."
Yeah -- kind of a real-life Yiddish Policemen's Union in reverse.
(And I hope you know, I wasn't truly even remotely bothered by the Bowden aside. I'm surprised no one has built a drinking game around that folksy locution.)
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