Standing O's for Thompson Talking Palin

Amanda Carpenter | September 02, 2008 10:10 PM

Fred Thompson earned a standing ovation at the convention for riffing on the media for their brutal attacks on Sarah Palin. The crowd is chanting "Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!"

Here's the transcription of his remarks about her, bolded where the crowd took to their feet for the first time several times over during Fred's speech.

Speaking of the vice presidential nominee, what a breath of fresh air Governor Sarah Palin is.

She is from a small town, with small town values, but that's not good enough for those folks who are attacking her and her family.

Some Washington pundits and media big shots are in a frenzy over the selection of a woman who has actually governed rather than just talked a good game on the Sunday talk shows and hit the Washington cocktail circuit.[Crowd gives Fred a standing ovation here]. Well, give me a tough Alaskan Governor who has taken on the political establishment in the largest state in the Union -- and won -- over the beltway business-as-usual crowd any day of the week.

Let's be clear ... the selection of Governor Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic. She is a courageous, successful, reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment.

Sound like anyone else we know?

She has run a municipality and she has run a state.

And I can say without fear of contradiction that she is the only nominee in the history of either party who knows how to properly field dress a moose ... with the possible exception of Teddy Roosevelt.

She and John McCain are not going to care how much the alligators get irritated when they get to Washington, they're going to drain that swamp.