From a friend that was there…..
” Chrissie, We got up at 6am, drove to the event before 7:30am. The line of cars went back for 2 miles in 4 directions. We had to walk 25 minutes to the line. The line was 2 miles long. I have been to KISS concerts and The Who which were shorter lines. It took over an hour to get to the event in the line. Finally we got inside around 9:45am, and we were FAR in the back of the large crowd. The count of tickets for the event EXCEEDED FIFTEEN THOUSAND!! And people were still trying to get tickets and get inside around 11am while the local candidates were speaking. Finally, they just began to let anyone in, even if they did not have a ticket. These photos do NOT do justice, as you cannot really judge the depth or width of the hanger space.”
McCain – Palin Rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Rally today in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The rally will began at 11:00 AM local Mountain time.
Here are my notes from the Rally………………………..
Retired U.S. Army nurse Anne Lucas holds a shirt reading “Pitbulls for Palin” at a campaign rally with U.S. Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) and Republican vice-presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in Colorado Springs, Colorado September 6, 2008.
Cheerleaders from local schools leading crowd in chants…Blue red and White…Fight Mccain Fight
Campaign staff say more than 10,000 people are expected to crowd into and overflow out of an airplane hangar at the Colorado Springs airport. They began lining up as early as 5:30 a.m., even though doors for the event didn’t open until 9 a.m.
Palin is scheduled to start speaking at 12:30 p.m., followed by McCain.
By the time doors did open, traffic jammed for miles around the airport and the line of people waiting to get in wound for several hundred yards around large hangars.
“We wanted to be here for this memorable day,” explained Patricia Strawser, who left her Denver house with her husband, Tom, at 5 a.m.
They arrived at the airport at 6 a.m. and found 50 people already in line ahead of them.
“I’ve never done anything like this before,” said Tom Strawser, who wore a cowboy hat adorned with little American flags. “Nothing.”
The crowd was made up of both veterans of political rallies and first-timers.
The reporters on earlier said there were far more people trying to get in to the event than they had room for. The crowd was estimated at more than 11,000.
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They passed out the flags that the Dems just decided they would throw away – veterans passing out the flags to the crowd. OMG I love this!
They announced that they are distributing flags that were thrown away at the DNC. The man speaking named a man who had rescued the flags. He apologized that there were many flags that were unsaveable, but they saved what they could.
The discarded flags now waving proudly!!!!!!!!!!!! They were really waving when Lee Greenwood’s song “I’m proud to be an American” was sung.
I have goosebumps and tears watching this.
McCain was criticizing Carter’s decision to ban the reprocessing of nuclear fuel and said there is now a pro-American President of France “which just proves if you live long enough anything is possible!”
McCain attacking MoveOn.org
Talking about Obama not voting to condemn General Betray Us ad! Good job, Mac.
Palin is adding new material into every speech. There were two new sections today. That’s smart. Repetition is how people learn. They must keep drilling many of the same points home in every speech, and mix in a few new sections with each event. The lines she is delivering are so good, and delivered so well, people look forward to hearing her say them even if they’ve seen them on TV before.
Fox News reporting that Obama camp states that flags were stolen. Obama is such a jerk.
UPDATE this evening about this rallly:
The Colorado Springs Police Department declined to provide an estimate of the crowd size, but a campaign spokesman, Tom Kise, said 13,000 had gone through security checks.
Wow! You go, Coloradans! Looks like we’ve got the Obamanation camp stumbling and near the ropes. Won’t take long now. And as you can see, we don’t need famous people (even though we have them in our camp too), to get our point across. We do it on their own.
These crowds are getting larger and larger as time goes on. Good to see that happening.
Numbers rising all the time, flags flying and the nasties are getting nastier. Couldn’t ask for a better sign of what this country really wants – and it isn’t Marxist dribble. Polls be dammed.
Don’t you just love how The O(so wrong)never accepts responsibility for anything those 2500 “employees” of his do? But according to him, he’s running that campaign…heh. Anyone who has watched even a couple of campaigns know that the campaign managers (handlers) run the candidate.
The pitbull comment at the convention seems to be building steam. This may be Sarah Palin’s icon from here on out. It appeared, at the time that that was a spontaneous comment. Any idea if that was written into the speech? Stroke of brilliance on someones part.
Jim Warren, according to Rush, and I also read this on drudge, Rudy’s teleprompter was screwed up it didn’t stop for the applause it kept rolling along. When Sara Palin’s speech came the problem was not corrected, and with all the applause she was getting,the prompter got way ahead of her. She winged it through half the speech because it was way ahead of where she was. The Pitbull comment was an ad-lib.
The dems are saying she has a good speech writer, this is true and a good speech is 10% of a speech, the delivery is 90%.
Can you imagine if Obama had the same problem, he would sound like he had taken drugs and half way through they kicked in.
As Don Merridith used to sing, ” Turn out the lights the party’s over”.
Jim – that lipstick statement was made before her speech so it may be someone else’s. But, it applies so it is effective.
Sarah Palin has energized the Right. McCain could not have made a better choice. The MSM will/is doing what it can to degade her, but that they are only showing off their bias and pissing off the public.
This will seem like a long two months until election day. I hope our steam lasts and maybe even builds. As Obama gets more desperate, he opens the door wider for more errors. I am axiously awaiting the debates.
You mean they got all these people without having Sheryl Crow. Stevie Wonder to sing, and Michael McDonald to entertain?
Can you imagine that? Folks coming to hear the candidates speak instead of high powered entertainment.
Let’s just hope that the McCain campaign team can package and schedule themselves the best way in the next two months to fully exploit and grow this enthusiasm to a win in November. The more town hall style meetings that John McCain and Sarah Palin can do individually and sometimes together the better they will be.
Lynn, your so right, they don’t have to ask celebs to help them out. If they get a celeb it is because the celeb has asked to be there like some have. But Obama that is a differnt ball game, he goes and begs the celebs. LOL
Yankeemom, you hit the nail on the head. Yes he really put down the person that runs his ( Obama’s) campaign by what he said. So many lies out of his mouth.
Jim yes it is neat. I am so glad Alaska is so much behind her too. It means a lot to those of us that thank God she said yes to McCain. Great people in Alaska.
Mark, that is awesome, so many people would be thrown if that happened.
Tom, me too, I really look forward to the debates.
I think the energy will keep going pretty good, and a nice even building if they just keep doing what they are doing.
BobF, ROTFL good one.
Yes they did. heh heh
Les, yes I hope so too. I like both the debates but also the Townhall meetings like you said.