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Oct 08They’re “the base.”
“Republican faithful” seems to be the preferred new euphemism for “dummy.”
- “She’s brought some real energy to this ticket. The fact that she’s a woman is a huge plus. I don’t care who you are, I think that brings a perspective that we’ve never had.”
- Mike McDaniel, former chair of the Indiana Republican Party - “I confess that I’d never heard of her before and was caught off-guard by this but she’s going to knock them dead. The fact that she’s got a son who’s deploying to Iraq already makes her a winner for me.”
- David Newman, head of the Kentucky Motorcycle Association
I’m not even being unfair. Rational, intelligent people do not act the way Palin’s supporters did at a rally in Clearwater, Florida:
Arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric’s questions for her “less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media.” At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, “Sit down, boy.”
Let that sink in. No, no, not the lies or racism–you should expect that. Thunder sticks. Is the campaign calling for a whiteout on election day? What about t-shirt cannons?
Links:
- Palin looks promising to Republican faithful
- Most of the Republican faithful had never heard of Sarah Palin
- Unleashed, Sarah Palin makes a pit bull look tame