Well, I bet there were more than GOP faithful at the event, but whatever. Here are a few more excerpts from the Omaha event:
Sarah Palin’s fans could give Obamaphiles a run in the devotion department if the more than 5,000 people who listened Sunday to her Omaha speech are any indication.
Palin’s supporters hailed the folksy Alaska governor as a “real person” who could be one of their neighbors.A “down-to-earth” person who has been maligned by Washington insiders and the mainstream media.
“She talks to us. She’s one of us. She doesn’t talk down to us like an Ivy League, Harvard person,” said Craig Johansen, an Omaha sales representative who was referring to Harvard graduate and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Palin thrilled her Nebraska and western Iowa fans on Sunday with a 24-minute speech at the Civic Auditorium Music Hall. She led a familiar “Drill, Baby, Drill!” chant, took a few shots at Obama and tried to portray her running mate, Republican presidential candidate John McCain, as the real candidate for change.
Palin’s visit to Nebraska comes as national polls show that McCain is struggling in the presidential race. It also comes as Obama makes a historic bid to win one of Nebraska’s electoral votes - the first time a Democrat has competed in this Republican stronghold in four decades.
Democrats and others have said Palin’s visit to Nebraska indicates that McCain can’t even count on traditional red states like Nebraska this year.
Palin denied that, saying she asked to come to the Midwest.
“The pundits were saying, ‘Check out where she’s going. She’s going to Nebraska.’ The pundits were saying, ‘The only reason she would be going there is because they’re scared. They have to shore up votes,’ ” Palin said.
“I so wanted to reach into that TV and say ‘no.’ I’m going to Nebraska because I want to go to Nebraska,” Palin said.
The short notice didn’t have a big impact on attendance. On Sunday, people began lining up outside the Civic Auditorium at about 1 p.m. State GOP officials said they would have had several thousand more if they would have had a few days to prepare, but no one was complaining.
Before Palin reached the main crowd at the packed 2,453-seat Music Hall inside the Civic, she addressed the overflow crowd in Mancuso Convention Hall. Capacity at Mancuso is listed as 2,500 on the venue’s Web site.
State Republicans had fervently hoped for a Palin visit.
Sweet. I would encourage all McCain Palin supporters to watch local papers closely for these events. It’s clear the lame stream media will not keep us informed of the love this nation has for Sarah’Cuda.
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Isn’t it amazing and sickening to hear the snotty commentators on the left, in the middle, and on the supposed right belittle Sarah Palin for being a real person and being able to relate to common people? I say we don’t need some egghead who is more concerned about his or her intellectual appearance than liberty and common damn sense!
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Real Person? I have to assume that you mean a “normal” American citizen. With that in mind…
Real people don’t belong to a church where chanting in languages no one knows, writhing on the floor, and foaming at the mouth are considered natural.
Real people don’t have people like Reverent Muthee, a self-professed witch hunter (among other things), pray over (for) them.
Real people don’t brag about having a witch hunter pray form them in public.
Real people think people that attend churches like hers are freakish.
Real people stay far, far, away from churches like that.
Real people think Reverend Muthee is criminally insane and should be locked up for some of the things he’s done.
Even if McCain had picked a good running mate, real people know that the Republicans have not given us - the public - any reason at all to reward their actions with another President.
I don’t have too many reasons to vote for Obama, but I have TONS of reasons to votes AGAINST McCain!
“…votes agains McCain…”
hehe - I sounded like Smeagle there. Sorry, it should read “vote”
I meant real person and normal American citizen. Real as opposed to phony, pseudo-intellectual, Play-doh politician.
Did Sarah Palin’s reverend say the following?:
“Naw! Naw! Naw! Not God bless America! God Damn America! That’s in The Bible!”
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Mark,
Your blatant exaggeration of a charismatic church is not welcome at Sunflower Desert at all. Period. I attend a church similar to Sarah Palin’s, not Assemblies of God per say, but charismatic nonetheless. I’m not going to apologize to you for it either. I answer to one person regarding my faith, and that is God himself.
You are actually calling millions of Americans freaks. I completely understand though, that’s all your type can do — call names. Well, kindergarten’s over, move along.
I’ve never attended a church where people are valued based solely on the color of their skin pigmentation. That would be your personal messiah, Obama. I’ve never attended a church that teaches women are second to men, that would be your muslim messiah, Obama. I’ve never attended a church that refers to Christians and Jews as pigs and infidels. Once again, that would be your muslim candidate, Obama.
Now, we’ve both had our say — though technically, I get all the say I want because it’s my blog. So, more comments like yours above will be deleted. Try and have a nice day, that is if you can even focus on anything besides how the McCain / Palin ticket makes you writhe on the floor, convulse, and foam at the mouth.
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Oh to be fair, Mark, your Golin talk was cute.
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Hi Sam,
I knew exactly what you meant by a real person. Great minds think alike.
Hope you, your wife, and all those former embryos have a fantastic weekend. I know they’d have a blast here in WY — we’ve received over a foot of snow since yesterday! Think of the sledding fun. 
(Well, we are actually going to be thinking of the shoveling fun here in a bit) 
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Tammi,
Ahh, the wonders of global warming. A lot of snow does sound fun! (Not the shoveling part.)
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Sunflower
My dear, please don’t try to inject something into the argument that I didn’t say. Obama is certainly NOT my choice. Unfortunately, neither is McCain. One of them for sure will be our next president, but it won’t be because I voted for either of them.
I’ll be casting my vote for Bob Barr. I wish more people could vote with their convictions and principles…
About the “charismatic” church. I do apologize if my comments offended you.
When I was much younger, my parents and grand parents referred to members of that type of church as “holy rollers.” I could have used that term instead, but then you’d be asking what I meant.
There are many more Fundamentalist Muslims (i.e. potential terrorists) in the world than there are members of “charismatic” churches. The only difference between you and them - and it is a BIG difference - is that you are not violent.