Republican Reaction to Seeing Obama First Hand

Via The Corner:

I went to Barack Obama’s rally here, on Sunday night, with a Republican friend who had never seen the Illinois senator in action before. Watching the crowd of more than 3,000 fill up the convention center, watching the people send up waves of energy to Obama, and watching him play off that energy in a speech that was one of the best political performances anyone has seen this year, my Republican friend said, simply, "Oh, s—t." He recalled the scene from Jaws, in which the small seaside town’s sheriff realizes how big the shark he’s tracking truly is, and says, "We’re gonna need a bigger boat." What my friend didn’t have to say was that he was deeply worried that Republicans just don’t have a bigger boat.

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*Update:

Fred Thompson calls it quits. I thought this guy was supposed to be the GOP's savior? He was so tough though. I mean Fred was a real tough guy. Just plain tough. He's big and tall and talks real tough. Plus he acts real tough too. Like Reagan did on the big screen. Both were real tough guys. He was just tough talking right said Fred. There wasn't anyone tougher than Fred. I just don't understand what went wrong. Damn he was tough!