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Sarah Palin Visits Central NY

In the Syracuse Post -Standard today: [1]

The crowd greeted Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with cheers and applause as she hoped out of her SUV and climbed in the back of a 1959 Cadlilac to start the Founder’s Day parade today in Auburn.

Palin was the star attraction, and she didn’t disappoint, waving to the crowd and posing for photos with two Auburn firefighters just before the parade began.

“She’s really a lot cuter than on TV,” said Anita Petrosino of Auburn

Petrosino was there to see her two granddaughters march in the parade.

The sidewalks were jammed nearly shoulder-to-shoulder in many places along Genesee Street as on-lookers jockeyed to get a glimpse of Palin, her husband, Todd, and daughter, Willow. At one point, the trio got out of the car to walk along the parade route.

Palin waved and smiled, connecting with the crowd and acknowledging their cheers.

John Adams of Cleveland. Adams and his daughter, Erin, got up at 5:30 a.m. to be in Auburn this morning. By 9 a.m., they were seated in folding chairs and talking with other Palin fans. John Adams likes Palin’s politics.

“She makes me think of Ronald Reagan,” John Adams said.

“For the first time since Reagan, I’ve found a candidate that … sounds like Reagan and that has some Reaganesque qualities,” said Adams, 56. “She’s not the speaker Reagan was, but she believes the same things Reagan believed and talk that way, and that inspires me.”

Erin Adams said Palin shows that a conservative woman can get respect.

William Richmond, of Norfolk Va., drove 10 hours to see Palin. He thinks she was “tarred and feather” during the campaign because of her beliefs.

“She’s pro-life,” he said. “She means the world to us as far as the pro-life movement goes. She’s Christian and she’s not afraid to say it. She’s not afraid to speak out”

There’s lost more of course, at the link.

The TV interviews I’ve been seeing on the stations in Syracuse and Rochester tend to run along the same lines.  Keep in mind; Auburn is not an overly large place.  yet to turn out there seems to have been many times that size of the population of the town.  I wonder if the GOP leadership is listening.

Addendum:  (David L)

We never need to fear that though we’re not a perfect nation, that we must apologize for being proud of ourselves.

Sarah Palin, from her speech.    Conservatives 4 Palin has the video the entire speech, here [2]