So it looks like Mitt’s successful rally yesterday (probably not the 35K claimed by conservatives –they do lie), in the upper-class Republican township of Lower Makefield, not only started off an hour late, the rest of it didn’t go exactly the way he planned:
YARDLEY, Pa. – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is promising real change in Washington to a crowd of thousands at a rally in suburban Philadelphia.
A large crowd waited several hours in 40-degree temperatures at a farm in the Philadelphia suburb of Yardley on Sunday night, and gave Romney a rousing welcome.
Romney told those gathered at Shady Brook Farm that on Day One of his presidency he’ll send Congress a bill to cut spending and work to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.
The Sunday rally is part of an 11th-hour Republican blitz to win Pennsylvania, a state that has voted for Democrats in the last five presidential elections.
[…] Thousands of people streamed into the Sunday night rally at Shady Brook Farm in suburban Bucks County. The stands were full, hundreds gathered in a field and hundreds more waited to gain entrance before Romney arrived for the event.
No question, it was a good turnout for Mittens. One attendee called it the “Republican Woodstock.”
But then we started seeing these tweets from reporters:
Michael Barbaro @mikiebarb (New York Times political reporter):
W/ Romney more than an hour late (but now speaking), dozens of people stuck in the cold, begging staffers to leave, use the bathroom…
Then:
“We’ve got to get out! My daughter is frostbitten,” begs mom, asking to leave Romney rally. Staffer replies: “It’s not cold enuf for that.”
Ashley Parker @AshleyRParker (also New York Times):
This is a big rally for Romney in PA, but dozens of people — cold and angry — are begging to be let out.
Jackie Kucinich @JFKucinich (Writes for USAToday, Dennis Kucinich’s daughter):
Man just pulled me aside and said “My son is on the verge of hypothermia” just as staffer starts letting people out a few at a time.
[…]
People are literally sneaking out gates now bring told they can’t leave way pic.twitter.com/uvlPBys5
The Romney people later told reporters it was a security problem, not that they were trying to make people stay for the entire event. But I have to wonder how those Yardley helicopter parents felt about their inability to get their kids out.
Romney is a liar. The Republicans are liars. They count on the support of blockheads. The news media does not report all the news. For example yesterday Abu Mazen (Abu Abbas), the leader of the Palestinian Authority, dropped the longstanding Palestinian demand for the “right of return” to Israel. That eliminates a key obstacle for restarting the Peace negotiations. The only real issue that now remains is what Israel intends to do about its illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian territory? Are the Israelis serious about making Peace with the Palestinians and creating a state of Palestine? Netanyahu and his Zionist fascist allies are not. Nor will they ever be. But there’s an election coming up in Israel. So we’ll all see how the blockheads in Israel vote.
You can try to paint it any way you want, the rally was awesome!!! How bout that Schwartz/Fluke rally earlier in the day that drew at least 23 or 24…..people….. Ha! Romney/Ryan will win tomorrow!!!!!
I’m so glad you were entertained. Did you try the apple crumb pie?