Palin in New Hampshire – Fires Up Crowd Estimated at 1,000 plus – Question of Not If, When She Will Announce

Sarah Palin Fires Up New Hampshire Tea Party - photo Anna Hemond




At first, the crowd in Veterans Park, Manchester, NH was mainly Tea Party Express personnel and press, lots of press, Press from New Hampshire, neighboring New England States, and CNN, as the hour wore on, and the Tea Party rally began, the field started to get crowded. “Embedded” NBC Reporter, Alexandra Moe tweeted “Palin ends speech to over 1,000 in NH: "We will continue to fight for what is right; thank you Tea Party"

Although many in the press were there hoping Palin would announce, thereby getting “the scoop”, so to speak, there is no doubt that Palin is the one to watch from now until she announces. There were a few clues dropped: During her speech the crowd erupted with a chant of “run, Sarah, run” to which she thanked them for “their encouragement” (full CNN video below). That said, there was perhaps, the biggest clue available in the form of a Tea Party Program Book, distributed throughout the crowd. A CNN Tea Party Debate is scheduled for September 12th. A recent post on CNN on September 1st, notes that Palin was invited to attend, however a Palin Representative had not yet responded.

The event drew Tea Party members from Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut, and featured Presidential candidate, Buddy Roemer, as the candidate speaker. The fact that the Tea Party movement in New Hampshire on Labor Day could draw that size of a crowd, speaks volumes about the change in attitude in the region. Comments from those queried who were of an age to recall life under Jimmy Carter, see a route in 2012, of similar proportions.


Crowd packs the stage, left right and center - photo Anna Hemond

Other candidates who had supporters at the event were Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, Bill Hudak who will run in 2012 in the Massachusetts 6th Congressional District (Note: Massachusetts has yet to announce the outcome of the redistricting and which seat will be chopped due to loss of population in the 2010 census), and Christopher Hill, a New Hampshire, an airline pilot, and veteran who is also running for President.

What this blogger brought away from the event was the power that is Sarah Palin, and her ability to strike a note of real life camaraderie with those in the audience. It is, in a word, contagious. Having listed to stump speeches from local to Presidential Candidates for both major parties (including one James Carter), since 1972, without a doubt, Palin delivers. Bottom line, the most inspiring speech to date, and one can anticipate more in the future. In the interest of full disclosure: Shouting “Run Sarah Run appeared to be the only option, as a conservative, as a mother, and as a feminist and one who wishes to see the great nation back on the right track.


(video from CNN)

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Sarah Palin On the Boston Commons – Democrats Plan Counter-Protests to Liberty Speech, plan to “Dress Well”

Tea Party Protest in Atlanta 2009, drew 15,000 to 20,000 image: altermdia
Sarah Palinis making a stop in Boston on Wednesday, April 14. Palin is the keynote speaker for the Tea Party Express stop on the Boston Commons. The rally, according to the Boston Globe, will draw “several thousand activists to Boston, where, according to local Massachusetts Democrat union leaders Palin does not belong. Apparently, not unlike “the Kennedy Seat”, the Bay State, belongs to the Democrats and their Unions. The fact that Scott Brown managed to take back the “people’s seat” has been lost on those in denial. What is more generally missed is that it was not so much Brown who was elected, but the people who were sending a message to the rest of the country from the land where David Axelrod test drove Obama’s election with his protégée Deval Patrick. Residents of Massachusetts saw the writing on the wall, well in advance of November 2008, and as the year progressed, and taxes on everything from dogs to satellite TV appeared, the proverbial straw broke that camel’s back. Palin does indeed belong in Massachusetts, as does anyone with a message that is pro-liberty and anti-tax. It is, after all, known as the “Cradle of Liberty, rather than the “birthplace of the Progressive-socialist agenda.”

In the interest of “fairness”, a counter protest to the “Tea Party Movement” is being planned by by a Kathleen Toomey, who used Facebook to attract 300 “anti-Tea Party protestors”. The gist of Ms. Toomey’s protest against the tea party – fashion – her group will be wearing “beautiful clothing” in order to highlight the fact that Tea Party Activists are not especially well-dressed. (In the world of Boston liberals, dressing well, apparently trumps intellect. Other counter-protests are planned, according to several sources, but the question remains, what on earth are they protesting - personal liberty, freedom from government and taxation? That’s about right for the Massachusetts DNC, and the Progressives that feel any form of small government, less taxes messages are over-the-top and should be censored.

That said, what is of interest is the crowd estimate of “several thousand” – Palin, who has drawn crowds average 10,000 plus at each of the Tea Party events, should be able to hold her own in Boston – When the sitting President, Barak Obama, goes to Portland, ME (an hour drive) he is able to draw at least a crowd – how large of a crowd – no-one’s talking. Articles from Boston to Maine put no estimate on the “crowds” that were there to see the President; rather emphasis is placed on the fact that there was a “crowd”. Which may be why Ms. Toomey and her 300 well-dressed pro-tax group feel the need to show up and protest – it is after all, in today’s world a popularity contest.

The reality is that no-one knows how large a crowd will be on the common on a Wed. morning in April to hear Palin or to participate in the Tea Party Express Rally. The fact that Massachusetts alone has Tea Party groups organized across the Commonwealth is lost on most media, as is the fact that Boston is accessible to every New England State, where, one can bet, there may be Tea Party Activists who are planning on attending.

Regardless of the size of the crowd (which remains to be seen), the change in the Bay State towards government intervention and taxation is palpable. As the 2010 Congressional Races offer opportunities for incumbents to retire, (90% of the Congressional seats are up for re-election), a Tax Day Tea Party with Palin as a speaker is the least of the Massachusetts DNC problems. The brand, in Massachusetts and elsewhere has been tainted with the spend and tax tar-brush, and that will stick until, as the signs say, the people “Kick the Bums Out” (via the polling booth).