SYMMES TOWNSHIP - Hundreds of people flocked to a Kroger on Friday to meet Sarah Palin on her national book tour, driven by passion, lured by white-hot celebrity and united by the belief that America would be better off today if she were in the White House.
Many camped outside Thursday night,
braving temperatures in the 20s and snow flurries, to be assured of getting Palin’s signature on her book, “America By Heart.” Some came from as far as Columbus, Chillicothe, Toledo and Michigan. One 50-year-old man even drove six hours from St. Louis to get an autographed book as a Christmas present for his wife.
David Richardson, 66, of Loveland who lined up outside the Harper’s Point supermarket at about 5:30 p.m. Thursday –
17½ hours before Palin was set to sign her book – believes he knows the answer.
“I think she’s behind the single biggest change in politics and political discussion in the United States," said Richardson, one of about 200 people who spent the night outside the Kroger to be certain of getting one of the 500 wristbands that guaranteed them a Palin autograph.