Secret Service Code Name: ‘Dreamy’

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MANASSAS, Virginia — Just left a Romney-Ryan rally in downtown Manassas. The crowd was huge, numbering in the thousands. Other reporters kept trying to make an estimate of the numbers, and all I could say was, “overflow.”

The crowd filled the pavillion and overflowed off in every direction. People stood in line for blocks in the hot August sun, and there were still people in line at the metal detectors when the rally started. Smitty was there with his video camera and I managed to get a few photos myself.

The next polls you see out of Virginia . . . Well, look, the “gender gap” will evaporate instantly now that Paul Ryan’s on the ticket. Trust me on this — chicks dig him. It was like Sinatra with a crowd of bobby soxers at the Paramount in 1944. Elvis at the Overton Park bandshell in Memphis in 1956. Total swoonsville. As I explained it on Twitter:

I’ll be back to update with actual news in a few minutes.

UPDATE: This video just in from Berlin:

UPDATE II: The headline at the Washington Examiner:

Huge crowds line Manassas
streets for Romney-Ryan

Click the headline to read the article by Mark Tapscott.

UPDATE III: Here’s a photo from the rally:

This was the first event where they distributed “Romney-Ryan” signs and the lady holding it is Prince William County resident Donna Widawski, who was a Secret Service agent during the Reagan presidency.

UPDATE IV: By now, I’m sure some of you are wondering, “Yeah, Stacy, but what did they actually say?” Details, details.

My notes show that both ruggedly handsome Republican candidates spoke without a teleprompter. Ryan said that Obama’s policies are “just not working,” that Obama wants a “government-centered society and a government-run economy.”

“Hope and change has now become attack and blame,” Ryan said of the president’s message. The tall blue-eyed GOP running mate then spoke of the American dream on the horizon, “the dream you have for yourself and your children,” and introduced the square-jawed presidential candidate, describing Mitt Romney as “the kind of person made for this moment.”

“Today was a good day for me, I gotta tell ya,” Romney said, flashing his magnetic smile and praising his young running mate for providing “intellectual leadership” for the GOP.

There were huge cheers when Romney promised to “get rid of ObamaCare,” and boos when he spoke of Obama’s claim that small business owners “didn’t build that.”  Romney got another huge cheer by citing the Declaration of Independence’s statement that people are endowed with rights by their Creator, and when Romney said the rest of the famous preamble — the part about “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” — the crowd loudly recited it with him.

“We’re going to stand for America,” Romney said and drew more cheers when he shouted, “I love this country!”

The postlude music was Kid Rock’s “Born Free.” Kid Rock, a Michigan native, endorsed his fellow Michigan native Romney in February.

Is that enough details for you? Gee, so demanding . . .

UPDATE V: To help satisfy your insatiable demand for details, I refer you to Marooned in Marin’s report on the “large enthusiastic crowd” with photos, videos, etc.

UPDATE VI: Matt Vespa on the liberal media’s plan to “assassinate” Paul Ryan. They’re just jealous, because chicks dig him.

UPDATE VII: Michelle Malkin digs Paul Ryan:

Paul Ryan is fresh, young, energetic, smart, courageous, and ready for prime time.
Paul Ryan is a policy wonk AND a front-line warrior whose budget and long-term entitlement reforms have the entire Dem-Soros-lapdog media machine unhinged.
Paul Ryan is ready to fight false media narratives.
Paul Ryan is battle-tested against the White House.
Paul Ryan won’t cut and run when the going gets tough.

And she didn’t even mention his dreamy blue eyes!

 


55 comments

  7. Maybe that wasn’t a scientifically representative sample, but compared to the latest Quinnipiac poll …

  10.  For when the President needs to film his own Downfall scene on November 7th, I hereby offer this handy guide to screaming orders at nonexistent underlings in his natal tongue:

    “Ambapo ni Wenk? Ambapo ni Steiner? Ambapo ni Axelrod? Valerie, ambapo ni wewe?”

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  12. Dude, you should have heard the warm-up music: KISS, “Detroit Rock City,” followed by “Shout It Out Loud.”

    Not kidding. I expected Mitt to spit flame and Ryan to waggle his tongue at the crowd or something.

  15. It was nice seeing you and Smitty today.  I have to admit, I did like his (Ryan’s) speech today.  I feel more comfortable with the pick after the speech than I did before.  

    So he at least accomplished that today.  

    Oh, yeah, Ryan is dreamy.  There is going to be some swooning going on over the next 87 days.  

  19.  When I was a kid, we did our own laundry down at the river, beating it clean on the rocks.  Couldn’t afford clothes pins, so we had to just stand there and hold it until it was dry.

  20. The size of the rallies is most encouraging.   Obama’s appearances aren’t in large venues anymore.  He mainly sticks to school gyms, small enough to mostly fill.  But notice you NEVER see the crowd shot from behind Obama. 

    There’s a reason for that.

    Same reason the intro rally to the Democrats’ convention at Charlotte Motor Speedway was cancelled.  He can’t draw as many as a truck race, even giving away free admission (and you know that pains him).  It would have been a humiliation.

  22. Last time this many spectators showed up at Manassas was July 21, 1861.  That time, they brought picnic baskets.

  25. I hope he is ready for all the grief that the Media is going to inflict on him and his family. Obama and his Chicago socialist thugs will have no mercy, no dignity, no quarter.

    They intend to win by hook or crook.

  26. As soon as Ryan was announced I designed & ordered my very own bumper stickers:

                                                ROMNEY/RYAN
                                                  LANDSLIDE

    I know – don’t get cocky. But I coulda made a fortune today in Manassas.

  38. Chill, Steve: Let ’em enjoy themselves and have some fun because it’s going to get ugly quickly enough.  You know the Left is going to unleash the vile bile very soon.  This is a time for celebration.

  42. […] about half full in a follow-up tweet.But a magical weekend for Mitt Romney:Robert Stacy McCain, in a longer piece wrapping up the Manassas, Virginia campaign stop Saturday, notes:The next polls you see out of Virginia . . . Well, look, the “gender gap” will […]

  45. Hey McCain, do you see 11 and 12 year old girls reacting to Justin Bieber and think that they are like that for the rest of their lives?  Are you really this stupid?

  47. “Chicks dig him.”

    Excuse me: WHAT DECADE ARE YOU LIVING IN? AND HOW STUPID DO YOU THINK WE ARE?

  48. My notes show that both ruggedly handsome Republican candidates spoke
    without a teleprompter. Ryan said that Obama’s policies are “just not
    working,” that Obama wants a “government-centered society and a
    government-run economy.”

    Dude, seriously. You need to get that looked at.

  49. Just another Republican Party closet case. It’s pretty clear what kind of poleing McCain is referring to.

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