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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 03:44 PM
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For second time this week, crowds leave after Palin speaks
I'd feel bad for Grampy McBombBomb, if I didn't dislike him so very much.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/For_second_time_this_week_crowds_leave_after_Palin_speaks.html

At a rally outside Youngstown, Ohio, Tuesday night, dozens of attendees left while McCain was still speaking.

I caught up with a few of them. Some explained that the airplane hangar where the rally was being held had grown crammed and uncomfortable. Others said they had other events or commitments to get to.

Notably, though, the exodous had only begun after Palin spoke.

Now, the same thing has happened again.

"I look up, about five minutes into McCain's address and see a steady stream of people walking out of the rally," writes Radio Iowa's Kay Henderson from a McCain-Palin event in Cedar Rapids.
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 03:47 PM
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1. Well, this can be easily remedied...
Have McCain speak first!

After all, isn't he now second on the ticket?
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theothersnippywshrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 05:20 PM
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10. They would do this if they were smart, and if McCain's ego would permit it.
People would stay throughout his senile rambling, the Hawky Mom could swoon and be a cheerleader as he mumbles his way through that day's contradictions, and then she could rouse the crowd to a fever pitch with her canned speech of smears and lies. The crowd would then leave energized and motivated and that is what the press would report. Of course, McCain would have to wait until the end of the rally to stare at her ass.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 03:49 PM
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2. I bet in private he's fuming
His kind has a huge ego, and wont take being slighted well.
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Essene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 05:03 PM
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6. yeppers. i highly doubt the internal dynamics are very strong in the mccain campaign
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corkhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 05:19 PM
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9. I'll go so far to bet that he DEEPLY regrets picking her and knows the straightalkexpress has driven
off a cliff, and it just hasn't hit the ground below... yet.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 05:22 PM
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11. He should have thought of that before he completely sold out to the ultra-conservative wing
of his party.

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clydefrand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 03:50 PM
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3. Could they just be coming to see and hear her so they
can decide for sure if they will vote for this pair since they have been seeing for 3 decades?
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billyoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 04:04 PM
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4. By this time next week, the crowds will be leaving BEFORE she speaks...
:hi:
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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 04:58 PM
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5. She's the sideshow freak
That's what people go to see -- not the mangy old tiger doing the same old lame tricks.

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wildflower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 05:05 PM
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7. self-delete...misread it n/t
Edited on Thu Sep-18-08 05:28 PM by wildflower
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firedupdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 05:11 PM
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8. They always have their show at airport hangars...is that part of
the tough act? I still don't know why any person would go see either one of them...her snarling is really bugging me and he's brain dead!
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JimDandy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 06:34 PM
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12. Stadiums have fixed seats in a known quantity. Hangars don't. They don't want
any more pictures of huge swaths of empty seats, first of all, and it's too easy for the opponents to get the correct number in attendance based on seating, which is stopping McCain from be able to lie about attendance figures.
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SmileyRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-18-08 06:38 PM
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13. No shock here - McCain was only drawing hundreds on his own even in cities.
with Palin they crack a thousand maybe in actual cities - he could probably score 2 or 4 thousand with Palin as the headliner in really big cities like metro Atlanta, Chicago etc.
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