Palin Works the Base

Thanks, you’ve been a great audience. I’ll be here all week. Don’t forget to tip the bartenders. [photo via Orlando Sentinel]

RELATED: It looks like every wingnut simpleton in the blogosphere is crowing about this article from The News-Press that claims 60,000 people turned out to hear Palin speak at The Villages in Florida. Never mind that the McCain camp and Republicans have been expending a tremendous amount of effort over the last several months dismissing Obama’s large turnouts, but I guarantee that 60k number, allegedly estimated by a “fire chief,” came through McCain’s people ... and we all know how accurate they’ve been lately when it comes to providing crowd numbers.

MORE: Yep, just as I thought...

Credible crowd estimates are elusive, but by all accounts Sarah Palin will outdo the 15,000 people that turned out for George Bush in The Villages four years ago. A Fire-Rescue captain put the crowd at more than 25,000, which seemed accurate. The McCain campaign, citing the local fire marshall, puts the crowd at 60,000.

Well, the McCain campaign only more than doubled the turnout. It would be silly of the press to call them on that. Honest mistake.

EVEN MORE: Via ts at Instaputz, I see Drudge is pushing this 60k figure, too. I’m a little confused as to how they think this will help. If the numbers are right (they’re not, but whatever), it makes Palin look like a “celebrity,” if they’re wrong (they are), it once again makes them look like shameless and desperate liars. Weird.

Posted by Kevin K. on 09/22/08 at 09:05 AM • Permalink

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Nobama, no how.

Comment by kykyclinton on 09/22/08 at 10:16 AM

Moron, where ya been?

Comment by Kevin K. on 09/22/08 at 10:27 AM

25,000 geezers , goobers and half-wits isn’t a stretch for that part of Florida, and they held it early enough so the geezer brigade could still catch the early bird specials at Ponderosa. The fucked up thing is , the morons who were out swooning over the prospect of a McPOW/Caribou Barbie administration are the ones that can least afford it. I just hope that enough of my fellow Floridians turn out to negate the retard vote and swing the state to Obama.

BTW , I am SO photoshopping that picture.

Comment by Speedy on 09/22/08 at 11:05 AM

The Villages in Florida is literally where Republicans go to die.

Comment by Steve M. on 09/22/08 at 11:45 AM

Oh, and the picture—holy crap.

Comment by Steve M. on 09/22/08 at 11:49 AM

Was that Fire Marshall Mathers? Fire Marshall Faulk? Fire Marshall Marsha, Marsha, Marsha?

Comment by HumboldtBlue on 09/22/08 at 12:46 PM

A little music for you Sarah while you work that lipstick. stroke me stroke me

Comment by iceberg wedge on 09/22/08 at 01:01 PM

I don’t care if a million people showed up. (1) They are all people who would vote Republican no matter what. (2) Independents and anyone else on the fence are running in the other direction from Palin. (3) Enthusiasm for the VP candidate while the top of the ticket looks like a drooling, out of touch, simpleton?

No wonder Drudge is crowing about it. This was the only possible good news to pull out of the weekend for Republicans, and he has his tongue so far up Republican ass, he had to run with it.

So can the journalists who think Drudge is a great “assignment editor” see the idiocy in it now?

Comment by Charles Giacometti on 09/22/08 at 01:57 PM

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Sarah sure does like to “Stroke the base”

Comment by Speedy on 09/22/08 at 02:50 PM

It really is ridiculous that they have lied about the crowd sizes at virtually every appearance, been called out on it and continue to lie. Goes along with the continuous repetitions of Bridge to Nowhere lie and all the rest. I wonder if neither Palin nor McCain ever reads a paper and, therefore, has no idea people see that they’re serial lying, or they just don’t care whether people see it or not. I’m voting for “just don’t care” (although it wouldn’t surprise me if neither of them has ever read a newspaper either).

Comment by marindenver on 09/22/08 at 03:18 PM

Suggested caption:

“For my next trick I’ll need a bag of ping pong balls.”

Comment by jsg on 09/22/08 at 09:17 PM

Steve M. sees it clearly. Having a Republican politician appear at the Villages is like having Johnny Cash give a concert at Folsom Prison. The audience is already on-site, happy for the distraction…and there’s no place else for them to go.

The Villages gets 40,000 people at morning roll-call, and twice that when the Hoveround Traveling Showroom of Affordable Mobility Aids sets up its demo track on the quad.

BTW; Every time I see this story, I automatically flash on Patrick McGoohan running for Mayor of The Village in the old “Prisoner” series. The parallels are more than cosmetic.