Opinion: On the convention floor, the excitement grows for Sarah Palin’s arrival
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ST. PAUL -- Excitement is already beginning to mount in the convention hall for the arrival at tonight’s podium of the first female ever on a Republican presidential ticket. All of the men in the 114-member Florida delegation, gentlemen all, have given their floor passes to the women in their lives.
Their spouses, daughters and other women now sit in the official delegation seats so that they can all rise as one to salute Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin when she arrives shortly to give her speech at the Republican National Convention.
As 35-year-old Jennifer Samuels, a Miramar homemaker standing in for her husband, explained, ‘She’s very human. And I think a lot of women relate to that.’
Like tonight’s speakers, many of the delegates blamed members of the media for what they consider unfair initial coverage of Palin and her family.
Arlene Krings, an interior decorator from Fairway, Kan., complained that liberals in the press ‘ridiculed’ Palin’s pregnant teenage daughter, Bristol.
‘I believe the only two groups that attack children are terrorists and liberals,’ she said.
-- Bob Drogin
