I heard that Barron Collier Band was there to perform: Did they skip school to go to a political rally?

Would they have been allowed and encouraged to attend if it were a Democrat appearing at the arena instead?

"Christian" radio was all agog over her appearing. For religious conservatives and other fear pushers and myth believers they like "the cut of her jib" from what they have seen, and despite the hints of facts that she is grossly incompetent. They want to see another Bush in office to "protect the faith," even though that would mean the end of the USA.

Re: Post #1 - How do you know that the band performing there was a partisan move? Will you be saying the same thing on Thursday if they also perform for Biden? Or is your comment merely partisan, as well?

"What is it about Palin that would prompt 10,000 normally sane Southwest Floridians to stand in a sun-baked parking lot for two hours to hear a predictable campaign speech?"

Get real, what make's Batten think they are sane?
This is 2008, Bush has been in office for 8 years, the world is in collapse thanks to Republican evildoing and Batten thinks ten thousand Republican fruitcakes lined up to hear a moron rattle off canned insipidy are sane?

Obama is a socialist, mega-taxing, anti-gun, baby killing, racist, anti-American, anti-military, racist, liar!

Naples123, thanks for the intelligent, lucid, and enlightening comment. How did YOU enjoy the Palin rally?

Hope you get back on your meds.

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight..

• If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different." Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.

• If your name is Barack, you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

• Graduate from Harvard Law School and you are unstable. Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, and you're well grounded.

• If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, become the first black
President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law
professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with
over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and
Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate
representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and
serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.

• But if your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

• If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising two
daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.

• But if you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your
disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

• If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the
proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

• But if, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other
option in sex education in your state's school system, while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.

• If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a
prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city
community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't
represent America's.

• But if your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DUI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

• OK, I’m much clearer now.