North
Carolina
state
director Dallas Woodhouse, seen on the big screen, stated that
"fire ants are very much like liberals." "They bury themselves in
the sand, they don't produce anything, they provide nothing worthwhile,
and simply come and and sting those of us who do," Woodhouse
said. He urged the
crowd to "put out the liberal fire ants." Without mentioning
political parties, Woodhouse had a forceful response to the common
Democratic refrain that electing Republicans would take the country
back:
"They're going to say well we
can't go back. Ladies and gentlemen, I am ready to go back!
I am ready to go back to the time when the health care decisions were
made by me and my doctor, not by a bureaucrat in Washington. I am
ready to go back to a time when elected officials worked for me, not
worked me over. I am ready to go back to the time when I did not
have members of Congress trying on purpose to raise my gasoline and
raise my electricity prices. Please take me back, please help me
go back! Put me on the express train! Buy me a direct
flight! I don't even have to pass go because I know Obama already
took the $200. Please help me go back...back to a more prosperous
future!"