Orange County has an endless supply of ironies.
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And get this: In a county that's home to Disneyland, McMansions and staunch Republicanism, Clinton–the bitter scorn of conservatives–drew a larger crowd.
But Palin's event, organized by the Republican National Committee, was undoubtedly more energized.
That's saying something because folks in their 20s and 30s dominated Clinton's crowd and the former Alaskan governor attracted people whose median age was probably 65 or older. Yet, the GOP crowd was twice as loud in its cheers.
”It's good to be here!” Palin told the indoor audience on a cloudy, misting day. “It's like walking on sunshine. . . . Positive change is just right around the corner.”
Palin said California voters have a “clear choice” on election day of voting for “more taxes, more government outreach, more regulation and more unemployment” or for Republicans who'll provide “real change, positive change for we the people.”
She then made a bold prediction.
“Soon we'll be dancing because California will be put back on the right track,” she said.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.