What I learned at the Sarah Palin Rally Before They Threw Me Out

[Brewman_Jax]

http://www.alternet.org/election08/101903/what_i_learned_at_the_sarah_palin_rally_before_they_threw_me_out/

From the article: What I witnessed was thoroughly alarming!!

Among this raptured crowd of 20,000 was a frightening mix of Christian zealots, anti-abortion fanatics, and mostly white suburban women and men reconnecting with their high school mentality. Bright colored pom-poms were everywhere -- as if Sarah Palin were head cheerleader, the women were on her squad, and the men were the football heroes. Sarah Palin, the quintessential 4ever-school-girl had revitalized their youth and saved them from adulthood. Check out the red pom-pom "hair" on the man behind Palin. If that isn't high school, what is??


The GOP is not trying to hide the fact that they not only appeal to the very lowest common denominator, but the lowest side of human nature--fear, hate, bigotry, ignorance. Qualities that we should strive to get beyond, not cultivate and extole. We here know that the USA has often failed to live up to its ideals, but those ideals aren't cast aside. To borrow from JFK, (We choose to do the right things) and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too. This is nothing that the freepers and other GOP supporters understand, rather, choose not to.

Going the low road--easy
Calling your esteemed opponent "That One"--easy
Rallies with the brain-dead--fun
Looking at those scumbags and knowing you can sleep with a clear conscience--priceless

[dysfunctional press]

1. "through" me out??? huh?

you might want to check your dictionary under the heading "threw"...

[Brewman_Jax]

2. Thanks

nt

[shaniqua6392]

3. It sounds absolutely frightening!!

They are definitely a scary bunch.

[Brewman_Jax]

7. Yes, they are

:hide:

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. McCain is rerunning the "Greg Stillman" campaign from S. King's "Dead Zone"!

[wvbygod]

5. What did you get thrown out for?

Why did they toss you?

[Blue Diadem]

6. from the article:

snip:
The Palin rally, which you may have seen on youtube and TV, was held at the Home Depot ADT Tennis Stadium. Because of the surprising popularity of Mrs. Palin and easy access to free tickets, all 20,000 stadium seats, plus an overflow area were filled. I got a handful of tickets, recruited my friend Rebecca Tobias, Program Director of the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Ethics, and trekked on out to Carson. We scored ground level seats in the stadium from which I watched, listened and steadily bristled. When I could no longer stomach Palin's lies and distortions, I jumped up, and at the top of my lungs, repeatedly called Palin a L-I-A-R! I was shouted down in Palinese by her 20,000 admirers, then escorted out by security. I took extra time as I climbed the steps from the ground up to the top just to keep her admirers shouting. The few minute reprieve from Palin's lies was to me a righteous diversion.

When I neared the top of the steps I turned back to Mrs. Palin and continued to call her a L-I-A-R, until I was ushered out the door. Thankfully my escorts showed me the utmost respect for they privately shared my feelings. They're working folk. They see through Mrs. Palin.But that's just the start of this story
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The author of the piece is Linda Milazzo.