Setting the Mood
September 4th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
At the Crowne Royal Plaza, where the Texas delegation is staying in downtown St. Paul, the garish Texas flag shirts have been donned. People are starting to head over to the Xcel Center for the RNC finale: Sen. John McCain’s acceptance speech, which is slated for tonight. Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback is signing cowboy hats for admiring Texans.
But people are still talking mostly about Sarah Palin. “That girl’s got ‘em on a run,” a Texas delegate said this afternoon in the lobby.
Outside, it’s a festive atmosphere. A “Terrorism in America” documentary by the Paul Revere Brigade is showing in a dimly lit bar. Young people are selling McCain/Palin paraphernalia on street corners.
And bored police in riot gear are smoking cigars and posing for photos with pages.
