10.30.2008 8:08 am
Palin fans converge on Cape for rally
Special to the Post-Dispatch
CAPE GIRARDEAU — Some Republican supporters of Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin were camping out at midnight outside the SHOW Me Center here, for this morning’s rally featuring Palin.
Before 7 a.m., traffic was jammed and at a standstill for more than a mile (some folks, including yours truly, experimented with ”back ways” and somehow got around most of the backup. Hope our car doesn’t get towed, where we ended up parking…)
Inside the center, by 8 a.m., the crowds are gradually filling up the floor and the stands after passing through security.
A live country-western band is playing VERY LOUD.
Check back for updates. Palin isn’t expected to take to the stage until after 9 a.m.
By his standards, old EJ Rotert must have been a pretty crappy journalist if he worked in Cape. Just another elitist snob who thinks people who live in Southeast Missouri are all uneducated rednecks. My guess is that he got fired. I hope Obama doesn’t make a sharp right turn because EJ’s nose will get broken.
Logicprevails… The press should put a full-court press on Palin. McCain picked someone unknown on the national stage as his VP candidate two months before the election. The press is doing exactly what it should be doing to give the people what they need to know about Palin. And don’t say the press hasn’t done it with Obama. Obama has been in the national spotlight for four years now, ever since he gave his speech at the Democratic National Convention four years ago.
Sorry, WP… But my career went further than Cape.
As for the people of Cape Girardeau, I said nothing at all about them being rednecks. Those are your words; don’t attribute them to me. Some of the nicest people I know I met in Cape Girardeau. I only made the statement I initially made because it is a Republican stronghold. I said Palin was the one who was uneducated and misinformed — not the residents of Southeast Missouri.
Kevin… Bush went to Yale, then went to Harvard Business School after he graduated as an underclassman. And guess what? He had the surname to get into both schools. Happen to remember where his father graduated from?Obama didn’t have the benefit of a powerful surname. Neithe did CLinton. If it hadn’t been for George Bush’s father, W. probably would had to attend something like Rio Grande Technical School.
Steve… You do know about politics, right? Positions don’t always go to the intelligent or best (exception: ex-U.S. Senator Paul Simon of Illinois). They go many times to the mean-spirited and the exploiters of human nature. Palin is a case in point. She’s been characterized by people who know her as having the tendency to bite the hand that feeds her. Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder is a case in point too. Just look at how he exploited people’s feelings today on the abortion issue. The man is a demagogue. Also, I might note, Whirled Peas, I wasn’t fired as a journalist in Cape. I quit on my own and came to St. Louis without a job to search for another job, because I felt after five years I was getting into a rut. Would you have the courage to take a similar gamble? Doubt it.