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Waiting All Night For Sarah Palin

Posted by DFO

Dec. 10, 2009 8:25 a.m. • 27 comments

Item: Palin Mania: Hundreds brave the cold night for Sarah’s signature/Colleen O’Brien, KXLY, and: KREM2 video

More Info: Those lined up for the former Alaska Governor brought tents, blankets, sleeping bags, board games and warm drinks to get them through the night. Mac Yocum lives in Coeur d’Alene now, but used to live in Wasilla, Alaska, where Sarah Palin presided as a city council member and eventually the mayor. “It’s wonderful, we just love and support Sarah, my family has always supported Sarah even in the mayoral candidacy, we’d really like to see her run in 2012,” Yocum said. Yocum was surprised by how quickly the line grew. More that 700 people were camped out for the noon signing by 5 a.m. Thursday and growing.

DFO: Do you know someone in line who could text a few words to Huckleberries Online re: how things are going this morning?

Question: What do you think would happen to someone who tried to cut in this line?

27 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

Phaedrus on December 10 at 8:34 a.m.
They’d skin ‘em like a baby seal.
CaptainAmerica on December 10 at 8:35 a.m.
I will be there to protect her from the Lefties who no doubt will show up unshaven.
arliacne on December 10 at 8:40 a.m.
Pining for Palin? Perfectly preposterous!
hmoffsuite on December 10 at 8:44 a.m.
Original question: Why Palin popularity? It is because she is the antithesis of Obama and his entire administration.
DFO on December 10 at 8:45 a.m.
@ Phaedrus: your 8:34 comment was a coffee spitter. Thanx for making my day already.
redman on December 10 at 8:53 a.m.
Al Gore was going to show up, but its too cold for his BS theory.
Phaedrus on December 10 at 8:59 a.m.
It is because she is the antithesis of Obama-

The unSmart?
hmoffsuite on December 10 at 9:05 a.m.
>> The unSmart?

Not according to those waiting in line.
OrangeTV on December 10 at 9:18 a.m.
Most of these people are lined up waiting simply to meet a famous person. Just to have that “brush with fame” story to tell. I doubt that there are many that are there because they’re head over heels with Sarah’s silly pointlessness. They’d probably line up all night to meet anyone with her level of name recognition.

I’d stand in the freezing cold for hours and hours to meet Betty White.
Phaedrus on December 10 at 9:32 a.m.
Not according to those waiting in line.—

You mean people waiting in 10 degree weather for 12 hours or more so they can overpay for a book written by someone else but signed by the cover girl? They’re your barometer of smart?
hmoffsuite on December 10 at 9:41 a.m.
>> “They’re your barometer of smart?”

Absolutely, Phaedrus. Just demonstrates their level of disapproval for the Obama policies. It would be even more meaningful if it were colder out and they waited longer. And, illustrate even more wisdom.
Digger on December 10 at 10:03 a.m.
@OTV - You owe me a new keyboard. Coffee. Spit. Laughing.

I remember how thoroughly disappointed I was when my “twin” and I from UI drove all the way to Spokane on a cold, foggy morning, just to stand in line to hear Sean Hannity speak and sign his book. Same type of deal - only books bought at the event could be signed… no photos with Hannity, etc….

In fact, if we dig in the HBO archives there might be something about it as I blogged about it and DFO front paged it… it was pre comments… I want to say early 2004…. but those archives were lost in the great Blog Crash of October 2004 right?
nic on December 10 at 10:16 a.m.
>> The unSmart?
Not according to those waiting in line.

Um, you might want to examine the caliber of people waiting in line. Se the picture DFO used in the ‘Sarah Palin Fans Brave Cold’ thread.

“He’s a lumberjack, and he’s okay.
He sleeps all night and he works all day. ”
moscow_minidoka on December 10 at 10:22 a.m.
“Not according to those waiting in line. ”

We’re in pretty sad shape if our barometer of intelligence is determined by the people waiting all night at the Fred Meyer garden center to meet someone who is incapable of telling the truth, didn’t write her own book, and is fleecing the very people she claims to represent.

I heard someone on the radio put forward the theory that Palin is actually working for the Democrats and this is all an elaborate joke being played on the Republican Party. There are days when I think that might very well be the case.

Palin is the new Borat, in other words.
Norther on December 10 at 10:24 a.m.
So, being a lumberjack is a bad thing? Hard working people for the most part, I am sure. But I guess the dynamics of a great nation change from time to time. Elitism raises it’s ugly brow.
Arpie on December 10 at 10:26 a.m.
I agree with HMO. She is the unObama. the New Yorker called her a mirror image. I think it’s more like a photo negative. black-white, male-female, thoughtful-shoot from the hip, educated- not so, worldly-homegirl, sophisticated-unrefined.The only thing they have in common are manic supporters and fame.
Cindy_H on December 10 at 10:29 a.m.
I agree Northerner. Making judgements about people’s intellectual capabilities by their appearance and how they earn their living isn’t cool.
OrangeTV on December 10 at 10:29 a.m.
I didn’t want to be a barber anyway. I wanted to be a lumberjack!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg
moscow_minidoka on December 10 at 10:29 a.m.
“Elitism raises it’s ugly brow.”

Well, Palin promotes an anti-intellectual anti-elitism, which is just as snobby and condescending as the alternative. She’s looks down her nose at people who are smarter than she is, more educated than she is, or more urban than she is.

If Palin fans don’t want “elitists” to get pissy with them, maybe they should listen to to Palin’s knee-jerk anti-intellectual moronic speeches during the presidential campaign.

Sarah Palin is the Queen of the Willfully Ignorant, and any person who is intellectually curious or interested in the world cannot help but throw up in their mouth a little bit whenever she opens her mouth.

Hmoff is correct in saying she’s the anti-Obama. Just like Kenny G is the anti-Charlie Parker.
Norther on December 10 at 10:37 a.m.
There are so many people who swear she is the next big thing and so many people who hate her it is impossible to justify labels. Same goes for the President.
hmoffsuite on December 10 at 10:37 a.m.
Arpie >> “I agree with HMO. She is the unObama”

And, the interesting thing is that their approval ratings, according to the polls, are darn near identical. (thread topic a few days ago, btw)
nic on December 10 at 10:41 a.m.
Thank you OTV, I’m glad someone got the joke.
nic on December 10 at 10:47 a.m.
HMO, please reexamine those polls. That article combined two polls from two different sources that asked two different questions.

The question asked of Obama was job approval, not whether or not people like him. Palin’s question was if people liked her not how well she’s doing her job. If the question was soley a popularity thing, Obama would be far higher in approval ratings than Palin. There are many who like Obama but are not impressed with how well he’s doing his job. And for the record: Palin quit her job.
Sisyphus on December 10 at 10:48 a.m.
“the interesting thing is that their approval ratings, according to the polls, are darn near identical.” —Thanks again for exemplifying the fallacies employed by a typical Palin supporter hmoff. Logic and facts aren’t their long suits.

The gallup poll is measuring Obama’s job approval. The CNN poll is measuring the favorablity ratings of people in the news. Her favorables don’t mean the respondents see her as presidential by any stretch. The wingnut author of that article takes the results of two separate polls, measuring two different things, and finds two numbers that are comparable. And to think you have any credibility for attacking the statistical work of climate scientists is beyond me. God help us.
Phaedrus on December 10 at 10:52 a.m.
Logic and facts aren’t their long suits.

No, red union suite are.
Don_Sausser on December 10 at 12:43 p.m.
Question, how many authors (famous people type) write every word in their books? Just wondering.
Stickman on December 10 at 6:06 p.m.
Thanks Don. I agree.

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