Palin Draws Crowd Of 60,000 In The Villages

by Bill Cotterell - September 22nd, 2008 - Fort Myers News-Press

Palin, whose son shipped out for Iraq this month, made a point of asking veterans and military members in the crowd to raise their hands for a round of applause.

Then she recalled that McCain took an early, unpopular stance in support of the Iraq troop surge, a policy shift now widely credited with stabilizing Iraq. "That's the kind of man I want as commander in chief," she shouted, as applause and whoops rose in the town square.

"John McCain is the only great man in this race."

The image being fostered by the MSM is that the Palin phenomenon is over. Certainly you could not tell it from the crowd yesterday. Let's be honest. Governor Sarah Palin is good people. She is dealing with the popularity the way an American deals with it. And she certainly appears to be focusing on the fact that the real star is the man who heads the Republican ticket, John McCain.