Sarah Palin was greeted by a huge crowd of estimated 60,000 cheering her on at her first Florida campaign stop. Sarah Palin told the wildly cheering, flag-waving, chanting crowd that John McCain is “the only great man in this race” and promised, on Sunday, that he will take care of the nation’s economy if voters give the GOP four more years in the White House.

“He won’t say this, so I’ll say it for him,” the Alaska governor said. “There is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you. John McCain wore the uniform of his country for 22 years -- talk about tough.”

Palin’s speech lasted for about 23 minutes in which she stuck to tested themes. She accused Obama of failing to offer a remedy for the nation's slumping financial markets and said that the Democrat would beget higher taxes.

Her remarks did not fail to elicit a response from the Obama campaign.

"Getting lectured by the McCain-Palin ticket on the economy is laughable," said Bobby Gravitz, a spokesman for Obama's Florida campaign. "McCain's plan is just four more years of Bush's failed economic policies that have led us to this financial crisis."