Palinmania Grips the Upper East Side of Manhattan... Kinda

I read on The Corner that a group brandishing McCain/Palin signs was at Lex and 86th. I called up a blogger in the UES blog-bureau, Ari, and asked if she'd gotten pictures.

"Oh, you mean the four people on the corner waving signs?"

Yes, alas.

Okay, so it's not exactly the Beer Hall Putsch. (But honestly, what could be? Good times, good times.)

Still. This is where Woody Allen lives with his wife-slash-daughter. So, it's something.

Posted by: Ace at 07:58 PM

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1 I bet all four are hot babes though. No dirty hippies holding these signs.

Posted by: BillyBob at September 10, 2008 08:03 PM (v9vTw)

2 Wanderers in an unholy land.

Posted by: Bob T at September 10, 2008 08:03 PM (DmlVS)

3 I love the internets, thanks for the investigative reporting, sources and all. I would have loved to have heard the commentary

Posted by: Jawbone at September 10, 2008 08:05 PM (r/OHH)

4 "Ari"? Sounds Jewish. The pic is probably a fake from Mossad.

Posted by: runninrebel at September 10, 2008 08:05 PM (qAMnO)

5 okay let me be the first to say it: Id tap that.

Posted by: sithson at September 10, 2008 08:05 PM (K1+tY)

6 At least these people won't have to make up a story of when they were behind enemy lines.

K

Posted by: Kestrel at September 10, 2008 08:06 PM (8IQ2U)

7 Sounds from the street:

"Oh moy Goawd! What arh you eeevil facists dewing heya!"

Posted by: runninrebel at September 10, 2008 08:06 PM (qAMnO)

8 Mind you, if they had been for Obama, the close up shots would have been magnificent, and the headline would called it a crowd, or possibly a throng.

Posted by: Cautiously Pessimistic at September 10, 2008 08:07 PM (ltwze)

9 I wonder if they would refuse to sell a superfucking-awesome-sweet bowl to a couple of Obama/Biden supporters?

Posted by: Tomosexual at September 10, 2008 08:11 PM (aRRWd)

10 "Yo, hey Tony! Check iddout! It's couple a doze moose killas!"

Posted by: eman at September 10, 2008 08:13 PM (TE1SV)

11 Damn! I would've hopped on the 6 train and joined them! Then again, I might've had the shit beat out of me by the millions of Marxists as a show of their universal love and tolerance.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 10, 2008 08:21 PM (np0pW)

12 Hey don't scoff at this. That's the whole 4 republicans that live in Manhattan. How many people get 100% turnout?

Posted by: Rocks at September 10, 2008 08:26 PM (7rbe9)

13 Suckers of cock!

Posted by: Max Power at September 10, 2008 08:26 PM (q177U)

Good times indeed.

One of the things I learned from watching Full Metal Alchemist: The Movie is that I was married on the anniversary of the beer hall putsch. I hadn't noticed.

Just one of many ways anime has enriched my life.

Posted by: Anachronda at September 10, 2008 08:28 PM (1OYcp)

15 I'm that shallow, chirpy person with those vaguely alarming eyeglasses.

Posted by: Roger Ebert at September 10, 2008 08:30 PM (9OT+1)

16 Except for a link this morning on HA, I haven't heard anyone mention the latest NE smear on Palin. I guess people are getting tired of that b.s.

Posted by: grc at September 10, 2008 08:33 PM (sonUU)

17 The Obama team is imploding, day by day. Show your support for McCain and Palin as our next President and VP (as well as your opposition to Obama and socialism) by visiting my site: http://zazzle.com/politix

Posted by: Politix at September 10, 2008 08:35 PM (z+KAa)

Unrelated, I know, but I can't help it. This ticked me off.

Today I was listening to The Situation Room on CNN. A Dem strategist was calling Palin a liar and a hypocrite because she "slashed funding for special needs kids." Actually as we all know she tripled it, that rumor was debunked by FactCheck.org two days ago, but no one challenged her.

Leslie Sanchez was there to represent the Repubs so Wolf Blitzer says, "anything you want to say to that charge, Leslie?" and she just stammers, "Oh, I hadn't heard that particular rumor but there's certainly a lot of false information out there!" Way to do your homework, dumbass.

How is it that you and I know this stuff but the people they're sending to CNN don't?

I don't expect Wolf Blitzer to pipe up, even though I'm guessing he knew perfectly well that rumor was false. But fuck, come on Leslie, do your fucking homework.

Posted by: Average Jen at September 10, 2008 08:38 PM (OINAg)

I live on the Upper East Side, and I can confirm that these four, and me, are the five only conservatives on the entire godforsaken island.

And by the way, it has been Obama Country for quite some time, long before he sewed up the Dem primary. Go figure.

Posted by: Sean at September 10, 2008 08:53 PM (ak6Lu)

20 Hey, If they'll move down 30 blocks all go outside and cheer them on.

Posted by: Holdfast at September 10, 2008 08:55 PM (Gzb30)

21 7 Sounds from the street:

I don't know why but that made me laugh.

Posted by: adamthemad at September 10, 2008 08:57 PM (kIjlp)

Looks like all 4 Republicans in NYC got together.

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Posted by: Jones in CO at September 10, 2008 09:01 PM (KOkrW)

23 As a sizeable fraction of a constantly outnumbered counterprotest in Studio City, I salute them.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at September 10, 2008 09:03 PM (9F9aW)

24 Woody Allen lives with his wife-slash-daughter.

NYC is really just the Ozarks without the trees and with infanticide instead of cousin-brothers and sister-neices.

Posted by: Potosi Joel at September 10, 2008 09:07 PM (TPRbZ)

25 Geez, Ace, that's just sad. Where are all the PUMAs?

I went to a real McCain/Palin rally on Monday, pix here, if you want to see what one really looks like.

Posted by: Nice Deb at September 10, 2008 09:24 PM (0Hyyy)

Manhattan?

Big ones. Plain and simple.

The most lunatics I've ever seen in one place was the day before the President's Day blizzard in N.Y. in 2001.

There it was, still fresh hell from 9/11, and there were thousands of of jackasses walking the streets in protest. I was sick as all get out and was majorly pissed that my trip to N.Y. was ruined and then, on the way back to the car, the police had redirected the foot traffic way the hell out of the way in order to keep the protesters in line. There were folks standing there, in front of the line of police, calling them every imaginable (though unimagnative) name they could think of.

I lost it.

I stood in the street screeching at the crowd, calling them every dirty thing I could think of. Many of the police offers who stood in the street that day had likely been at the WTC site on that awful day, risking their lives to save others. Those who had not been at the site that day were likely to have been touched personally by the tragedy and those bastards were calling them names.

I was with a customer btw, did I mention that? My customer dragged me, still screaming, back to the car. I hadn't even stopped to think of how I would be perceived by him and, afterwards, dreaded what I might face when I returned to the office the next week.

When I returned to Jax, there was a dozen roses from him waiting for me at my desk.

Again, those four folks...holding McCain signs...BIG ones.

Posted by: jmflynny at September 10, 2008 10:07 PM (mx8gc)

27 "It's up to you, New York, New York...."

Posted by: exdem13 at September 10, 2008 10:24 PM (fenBi)

28 I just had to link to this article about Palin. This is really one extraordinary lady.

Posted by: joe at September 10, 2008 10:48 PM (TOly9)

29 Hey, I'm going to have some free time starting next week. I'd start waving signs on the UES.

Of course, the real tough area is the west side. I don't know. I generally don't deign to cross Madison, much less 5th ave.

Posted by: juno at September 10, 2008 10:53 PM (7uTCa)

30 Oh, and I have 3 kids under the age of 6. Maybe that would scare the townies.

Posted by: juno at September 10, 2008 10:53 PM (7uTCa)

31 Wow, they're braver than I am. I keep my politics very close to the vest in Manhattan. None of the liberals do, of course. Every day I have to hear about how he's gonna bring hope and change!

Posted by: Kensington at September 10, 2008 11:48 PM (xFNQx)

32 I'm tempted to check out the location now...I can imagine this funny therapy-ish event wherein closet New York McCain/Palin fans come out of the closet...could be funny.

Of course, on the Upper <i>West</i> Side, it would be funnier and uglier.

Posted by: FloofyParisParamus at September 10, 2008 11:56 PM (KSF7K)

33 86th & Lexington - and I'll be there next week. Hope they are there again too. Hey, I might bring a sign too.

Posted by: Porky's at September 11, 2008 12:02 AM (IVN2U)

34 Hey, I put a McCain/Palin sign in the front window of my South Philly house. So far, no bricks or molotov cocktails. The Messiah's not playing to well among the bitter, clingy, ethnic (ie:Caucasian), working-class city folks either.

My next step will be to put a bumper-sticker on the car. The W sticker I put on my beater in '04 cost me a few hundred bucks in paint, and 2 taillights.

Posted by: Dr. Remulak at September 11, 2008 12:23 AM (srd67)

35 What, is Wednesday at high noon the time at W. 86th? Maybe a can meet an attractive, or semi-attractive non-Lefty woman there? It's really tough to accomplish such in NYC!

By the way, why are all the McCain shirts blank on back? Mitt Romney's shirts had his name front and back!

Posted by: FloofyParisParamus at September 11, 2008 12:26 AM (KSF7K)

36 I'm convinced that if voting for McCain/Palin didn't seem like such a taboo here, more NYC'ers would do it. I'm putting a bumper sticker on my work bag. My fellow personal injury attorneys will flog me.

Posted by: FloofyParisParamus at September 11, 2008 12:32 AM (KSF7K)

37 Well, I just got back from a Young Republican meeting on 37th and Lex that had at least 25 people there. And there's another YR group that meets the week after next. So there are certainly more than 5 Republicans in Manhattan...Did I mention that the guy who sold "W" ketchup in 2004 lives in the apartment below me?

And for the record, Woody and Soon-Yi used to live on 92nd between Park and Madison. He sold the place. I like to think that the 2 times I encountered them and start screaming "Shame!" and "Child Molester!" had something to do with it. Woody always ran for the nearest cab. Soon-Yi wanted to punch me in the face. I wish she did. I would have paid off my student loans by now. Hell, I wouldn't even have had to borrow money to go to law school. Then again, with my settlement money, I probably would have stopped working and developed a heroin habit and never gone back to school.

Posted by: Oschisms at September 11, 2008 12:52 AM (MEOwc)

38 IMAGINE a world, and a New York City wherein the media was not staffed primarily by unthinking, undisciplined, pseudo-intellectual liberal and leftist twits...

Posted by: FloofyParisParamus at September 11, 2008 09:30 AM (KSF7K)

39 They would be left alone since the rest of the people would expect them to be carrying, as rednecks are wont to do.

Posted by: roy at September 11, 2008 09:46 AM (cB77O)

Well, I just got back from a Young Republican meeting on 37th and Lex that had at least 25 people there. And there's another YR group that meets the week after next. So there are certainly more than 5 Republicans in Manhattan...Did I mention that the guy who sold "W" ketchup in 2004 lives in the apartment below me?

The way Republicans are discussed in Manhattan makes me visualize those meetings like a scene from "The Diary of Anne Frank". Held in secret, under the stairs, while the tolerant ruling class marches outside.

Posted by: Jay in Ames at September 11, 2008 02:19 PM (UEEex)

If folks had gone just one avenue east, they'd have seen a whole lot more than 4 people stumping for McCain on Sunday:

http://flickr.com/photos/mccainmanhattan/sets/72157607173905019/

(3rd Avenue Street Rally, as organized by McCain Manhattan.)

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