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RICHLAND, Wash. -- Thousands of fans, including some who began lining up 26 hours early, greeted Sarah Palin as she arrived for a book-signing event today.
"We love you Sarah," shouted many in the crowd as she arrived at Hastings bookstore in Richland at about 11:30 a.m.
Anita Golladay, wife of Yakima County Republican party chairman Max Golladay, was among those who spent a cold night waiting in line.
"I just knew I didn't want to be on the tail end of the line," she said.
Yakima Republican party vice chair Rita Hanses arrived at 4:30 a.m. and wrapped herself in a blanket to keep warm in the early morning temperatures in the 30s.
"She's like an icon. She's our icon," Hanses said. "She doesn't come across like a politician. She' comes across as real person."
Lines for the former Alaska governor and former vice presidential candidate started at 10 a.m. Saturday — 26 hours before Palin's scheduled to appear at noon today — just to make sure they'd get her to personally sign her tome, "Going Rogue," selling here for $17.39, plus tax.
By 9:30 Saturday night, some 250 of the faithful were camped outside the store, sitting in lawn chairs, covering themselves with blankets and sleeping bags, warming up with portable propane heaters.
"She stands for what we stand for, which is greatly lacking in Seattle," said Debi Danielson, 54, of Yakima. "Only in Seattle can you come up with a government that has the idea that they know how to do everything."
Danielson was here with her husband, Dale Danielson, 55, a craftsman who works for the Bureau of Reclamation.
Also accompanying them was Debi Danielson's mom, Vi Grauman, 80.
"This is the biggest book-signing event ever at the Hastings store here, said Justin Cardenas, the manager, and probably the biggest one ever in this town.
A coffee shop associated with the store was kept open all night to serve those outside. The Haisting's rest room was opened to the waiting customers as well.
Signs at Hastings declared there was a two-book limit for Palin autograph seekers, and that the GOP vice presidential nominee would not write personal messages. Palin said she would sign as many books as she could between noon and 2 p.m.
Just to make sure she'd get one of the prized signatures, Nancy Daniel, 54, of Benton City, arrived at 10 a.m., parked her lawn chair and claimed the No. 1 spot.
"She's standing up for conservative values, for ending corruption," Daniel said of Palin.
She was on page 121 of the 413-page book. While critics have mostly panned "Going Rogue," Daniel is a fan. "It's a great book. She sounds like a regular American," she said.
Most of the crowd was older and there were few people waiting in line who looked to be in their 20s or under. But there was one group of young women. One of them was Kassie Elfering, 19, of Pasco. She's a sophomore at Columbia Basin College, majoring in pharmacy.
"I like her morals," Elfering said about Palin. "What she says, she believes in. She proves it in real life."
"Going Rogue" was released November 17. Its publisher, HarperCollins, said it sold 700,000 copies in its first week of sale. The publisher said it has 2.5 million copies in print. "She's a modern American mom," Elfering said."You can just relate to her."
-- Compiled from reports from the Yakima Herald-Republic and The Seattle Times
yesterday, Going Rogue became the number one best selling non fiction hardcover book on the New York Times best sellers list.
Mra. Palin is the first Republican conservative to reach that honor.
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I wonder how many critics who were said to have not liked the book are liberals.
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And I wonder if they realize the dire staights that the publishing industry is in right now. They should be in favor of any book that breaths excitement into sales and maintains jobs.
Danielson was here with her husband, Dale Danielson, 55, a craftsman who works for the Bureau of Reclamation, doing stuff like fixing fish screens. Also accompanying them was Debi Danielson's mom, Vi Grauman, 80. "The state should be chopped in half," said the husband, about the eastside/westside political split. Debi Danielson described the crowd patiently waiting outside in the cold.
"We're conservative. We won't leave a mess like liberals do," she said. "Ever seen the parks after they leave? All garbage."
Divisive, polarizing language from these "conservatives" illustrates clearly why our side of the State is so far behind in so many ways, both socially and economically. There is no room for compromise, discussion, and reasonable solutions when this is the attitude we project to the rest of the State. Eastern Washington would become the largest welfare/entitlement regions on the West Coast (not that we aren't already) if the wish to break the State in two was ever realized. What unrealistic lunacy - and for what? Sarah Palin only enables this stupid, isolationist mentality, not to mention creating more social division.
I bet most of the people waiting for a copy of Going Rogue are from Yakima. The Yakima neo con movement has a common intelligence level with Sarah Studip.
She is the only author in America that has wrote more books than she has read.
I love the anti government comments from the lady whose husband is taking home a goverment check every month. GIVE it back
Another good one about cleaning up corruption. Why do you thing she resigned. CORRUPTION investigations.
God I hope she is nominated by the GOP
SEVEN MORE YEARS BABY
yakrob,
i am disappointed in you. I feel bad for you.
Please read Hillbuzz, the gay blog in Chicago. Please just give it a try.
Woman have supported the gay movement. Please don't stick a knife it their backs
"She sounds like a regular American," she said."
This says a lot. In a time when politicians have lost ALL touch and credibility with us "common folk", Sarah comes along to save the day. If she ran for Prez, I would surely vote for her, just for a fresh outlook. She was certainly more qualified than that idiot McCain, and history will show, the ObamaNation as well.
Now THAT would be REAL change.
Frances, what did YakRob say about gays? I am confused at your admonition. It was probably something totally unoriginal, reeking of liberal dogma and rhetoric, since that is his stock-in-trade.
"the only author in America that has wrote more books than she has read."
Shouldn't that be, "has written more books than she has read"?
Francesgumm - I wasn't speaking about women or gay issues, I was speaking about the uncompromising diviseness in Eastern Washington among people who identified themselves in this article as "conservatives" and Sarah Palin's enabling of those uncompromising and unconstructive attitudes - I can assure you that I am not a misogynist - I have four strong, independent, and intellegent older sisters and mother - and a father who raised all of us to respect the equality in ability and intellegence, as well as, the unique perspective that women bring to the table. Not to mention that my best friend of 30 years and current roomate is a wonderful and creative woman. So, please, don't draw unfair and untrue conclusions just because I don't support most of Sarah Palin's ideas or her credentials or perspective on how to move this country forward.
As for trying to suggest that Sarah Palin is supportive of gay rights, we have been down this road before - last time you chose not to respond to my challenge to that theory. You based the theory on her veto of legislation related to prohibiting equal State employment rights for registered domestic partners that came to her desk while she was Governor - she has been quoted as stating that she only did so because the Alaska State Supreme Court had advised her legal staff that the law unconstitutional and woudl be reversed by the court if enacted. She also stated at the time that she would support a referendum vote by the people on prohibiting gays from having these rights. What do you think the chance would be of gay equal rights legislation being passed by the electorate in Alaska? Gays don't have housing and employment protection there. How is that supportive? Care to debate this with me or ignore it again. Frankly, before you brought up her support of gay rights, I hadn't even considered her position on that issue because there was already so much I did not agree with her about.
Yak,
Walk into any crowd of a thousand and you're gauranteed to find a jerk. Now, put a Seattle Times reporter in a crowd of a thousand conservatives, and who do you think is going to get quoted?
You mean to say that you haven't heard these types of comments from anyone else in Eastern Washington? On this site? Come on. Do you believe that these individuals are a minority and do not represent conservative viewpoints in Eastern Washington?
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Where did you come up with that quote from the Danielsons???WHY do you have to make up so much HATEFUL stuff???
You libs have come up with the most HATEFUL things this last couple of days. WHY can you not discuss things without being SOOOOO HATEFUL???
CALM DOWN, everything will be OK, Nov. 2010 is coming soon.
Curiously, those comments which reflect so poorly on the Yakima area were edited out of the Yakima story. Gee, I wonder why??
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/home/index.html
"She stands for what we stand for, which is greatly lacking in Seattle," said Debi Danielson, 54, of Yakima. "Only in Seattle can you come up with a government that has the idea that they know how to do everything."
Identify yourself as being from west of the Cascades — specifically, that liberal city by Elliott Bay — and you will be told in no uncertain terms why they love Sarah here.
Danielson was here with her husband, Dale Danielson, 55, a craftsman who works for the Bureau of Reclamation, doing stuff like fixing fish screens. Also accompanying them was Debi Danielson's mom, Vi Grauman, 80.
"The state should be chopped in half," said the husband, about the eastside/westside political split.
Debi Danielson described the crowd patiently waiting outside in the cold.
"We're conservative. We won't leave a mess like liberals do," she said. "Ever seen the parks after they leave? All garbage."
Conservatives "don't leave a mess like liberals do" - excepting of course eight years of the Bush presidency.
Report Violationyakrob said:
""Sarah Palin only enables this stupid, isolationist mentality, not to mention creating more social division.""
If that is not a knife in the back, I do not know what is.
I will not debate anyone on this site. I simply offer observations and move on.
My daughter and i got there at 10:00 this morning and there were probably a few hundred behind us. We were shocked when an hour later she drove up, got out of the car with her baby and started shaking hands. She talk to the crowd,thanked everyone for coming out and waiting in line. My daughter even got a picture with her! She is a very REAL person and I admire her for standing up for the conservative family in this day and age! She's a very lovely woman and her baby was just adorable! I don't know if she can be president but I hope she tries!
Report ViolationSorry frank, you "won't debate" because you aren't used to having people talk back. This area may be highly conservative, but there are the other 40% of us who are willing to defend what we believe in, our values, and our perspective. If that bothers you, then yes, please move on.
Report Violationplease excuse the typing...one handed with one finger...sigh!
i would have loved to have gone, but no way could i stand in line that long. i'm happy people in our area that like her got the chance to meet her.
"I will not debate anyone on this site. I simply offer observations and move on." What you simply offer are untruths to support your opinion and to make others wrong. I wouldn't want to debate either if I had no facts to back up my statements.
"Where did you come up with that quote from the Danielsons???WHY do you have to make up so much HATEFUL stuff??? "
Gramps - read the article again, then read my comment again, and then apologize, please. Or do you want to be part of the problem in our community with divisive untrue accusations as well?
"Thousands of fans, including some who began lining up 26 hours early, greeted Sarah Palin as she arrived for a book-signing event today."
WHY???
The reason why people do not like Sarah Palin is because she is a class act and has brains. Well, these people don't have any class or brains so what do you expect. They belong to the tax and spend party.
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