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Palin Fans To Begin Line Tonight

Posted by DFO

Dec. 9, 2009 9:05 a.m. • 22 comments

Anyone hoping to get Sarah Palin’s autograph Thursday when she visits the Fred Meyer store in Coeur d’Alene should plan to wait in line. And dress warm. “We know it’s cold, but this is the way we have to do it,” said Melinda Merrill, public affairs director for the Portland-based Fred Meyer. Palin will be signing copies of her book, “Going Rogue,” from noon to 3 p.m. at the store on the corner of Highway 95 and Kathleen Avenue. The first 700 people in line will be given wristbands, Merrill said, guaranteeing them a signature by the former GOP vice presidential candidate/Maureen Dolan, Coeur d’Alene Press. More here.

Question: Which Merry Huckster is most likely to fight Kage Mann for the spot in front of the line tonight? Which one is most likely to throw a tomato?

22 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Don_Sausser on December 09 at 9:09 a.m.
Kage vs Phraedus
Bent on December 09 at 9:14 a.m.
Hey Palin did a great op-ed piece on climategate for the washington post!!! lol…

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120803402.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
poolman on December 09 at 9:18 a.m.
If you hear someone repeatedly starting the chant “drill baby drill, drill baby drill” that will be me - kidding. If she had 10 beautiful women acting as security guards wearing ONLY AK-47’s I still would not go stand in line to get a Sarah Palin autograph.
Lizard_People on December 09 at 9:22 a.m.
Drill, baby, Drill = Waste. it. ALL.

They kind of have the same rythmic effect!

Waste it all! waste it all!
Smacky on December 09 at 9:23 a.m.
Bent, do you really believe Palin wrote that?
ejs on December 09 at 9:48 a.m.
Again, I would rather stand in line for a prostate exam.

I suppose in a morbid sybolic way that’s what she’s actually doing, especially to anyone that buys the book. :)
bpoole on December 09 at 10:26 a.m.
I will defer my comments, and agree with poolman!
wheels on December 09 at 11:25 a.m.
DFO, careful puting that ‘throw a tomato’ thought out there .To many people full of anger for whatever just looking for a reason.Like her or not she is in the spotlight.Let her make hay while the sun shines as it’s going to set soon.
Cindy_H on December 09 at 11:29 a.m.
I don’t get the “throwing tomato” thing. Why would anyone do that?
There’s lots of politicians I can’t stand, plenty of authors I don’t care for and lots of celebrities I’d loathe, if I had enough energy.
But I wouldn’t throw things at any of them. What kind of mindset is that?
Sisyphus on December 09 at 11:33 a.m.
“I don’t get the “throwing tomato” thing. Why would anyone do that?”—completely agree Cindy. That guy’s an idiot.

Now shoes on the other hand….;-)
Sisyphus on December 09 at 12:31 p.m.
Here’s the fact checking Palin’s ghost writer missed on her op ed.

http://mediamattersaction.org/factcheck/200912090004
Stickman on December 09 at 3:24 p.m.
I’m with Cindy, though I know if some of you had the chance, you would throw one. Speaks of the mindset on here at times.
MamaJD on December 09 at 5:25 p.m.
People are already in the parking lot. Ugghhhh.
Phaedrus on December 09 at 5:34 p.m.
Time for some people to get a life.
JohnA on December 09 at 5:38 p.m.
Still the funniest line I’ve heard lately: If she and McCain had one, we’d have V.P. Biden touting his book “Going Rogaine”.

Classic.
MikeK on December 09 at 6:13 p.m.
So if I worked the campout line tonight handing out hot chocolate and hand warmers how much money do you think I could raise for the “Kennedy for City Council Election Challenge Legal Defense and Jameson’s Whiskey Procurement Fund”?

Just wonderin’…
MamaJD on December 09 at 6:47 p.m.
BREAKING NEWS!! Mike Kennedy is at Fred Meyer!
sue on December 09 at 7:00 p.m.
Are you there, too, MamaJD?
sue on December 09 at 7:03 p.m.
Someone I love dearly invited me to the book signing in Sandpoint, via e-mail, and I had to explain to her what ROFLMAO meant.
MamaJD on December 09 at 7:25 p.m.
Sue - Too cold for me. I have other priorities like get two children off to school in the morning.
MikeK on December 09 at 7:31 p.m.
Full disclosure - I was in fact at Fred Meyer. Buying Milk. Seeing no sign of the former Alaska governor, I left with my milk (and my party credentials) intact.

And I did put two bucks in the Red Kettle on the way in, so I’ve got Nonini beat there, too.
Liz on December 09 at 9:24 p.m.
I was in there earlier this afternoon. To buy the Dungeness Crab that was ridiculously cheap this week. It was delicious, by the way. But yeah, they had the porta pottis set up and the regular parking roped off. Good thing. I’d be POed if I had other Freddy’s business in mind and couldn’t get close enough to park.

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