Sarah Palin was in Barack Obama’s
hometown Wednesday night and was simply dazzling. She had two appearances: The
first was a GOP fundraiser, where she reportedly wowed the leaders of the
party, and the second was to a sold out crowd at the Rosemont Theater.

As expected, Sarah went after the Obama regime and Congress, relentlessly. She
talked about offshore drilling and the need to toughen up rules and
oversight…while still drilling for much needed oil and natural gas. Sarah
also noted that the modern day Tea Party movement started in Chicago.

Then Sarah went after Highland Park High School for forcing the girls
basketball team to cancel a trip to Arizona. As a former championship winning
ball player herself, Sarah understands what this trip would mean to the team
and how utterly ridiculous the decision to boycott Arizona is, just because the
state chose the Rule of Law over absolute chaos. More on this in a minute.

The gang from HillBuzz.org
was at the event, and give us their perspective:

This was very much a
presidential campaign speech by Palin — as she continues to work out her platform, sound out her supporters,
and hone what works for her. We’d call it a tour-de-force,
but Palin still has a year or so to go before she declares her candidacy…so we need to leave her room to improve
between then and now. If she’s this good today, in May of 2010, we don’t know what to call the caliber of what
she’s capable of with more than
a year more of this under her belt.

These are questions the RNC
needs to ask itself every day — while it gets the heck out of Palin’s way and lets her do her thing.

For those who are not familiar with the Boys From Chicago, as their
organization’s name implies, they are lifelong democrats who founded their
group to support Hillary Clinton. A real sincere bunch, they were quite angered
when Obama, who they call Dr Utopia, secured the democrat party
nomination. They knew first hand what America was in for with the devout
Marxist and his cohorts at the helm. Once John McCain announced his choice of
Sarah Palin as his running mate, these guys became strong supporters, actually
campaigning for the duo throughout Chicagoland.

Since then, the group have become some of Sarah’s strongest supporters, and
have joined the fight to retain our Freedom and Liberty, and stopping the Obama
regime from further advancing it’s horrific agenda. Their website has become a
must read, as they can articulate conservatism quite well, and bring a unique
perspective to it all. You can check ‘em out here.

C.Steven Tucker was at the event and was able to
take some bootleg video that is quite good. It’s interesting to note that as
the video starts, Sarah is discussing massive corruption in government,
comparing the corrupt Chicago machine to the mess she faced in Alaska, and
discusses how she cleaned house, and urges folks to do the same in their state.

This was a serious red meat speech and we too feel this is just a warm up for
what we will see in 2012. Unapologetic and firm in her beliefs, we haven’t had
a leader like Sarah since the Great Ronald Reagan was with us.

This is what America is looking for: Someone who actually stands for something,
and doesn’t compromise their core beliefs for political expediency. Sarah knows
who she is, and doesn’t need focus groups and polling to tell her what to
think, what to say, or how to act.

One of the things the Chicago media focused on was Sarah’s obvious disgust with
Highland Park’s decision to not send the girl’s basketball team to Arizona, a
trip they worked hard for. From the Chicago Sun-Times:

With 4,000 Chicago area fans
cheering her on, former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin trained her sights Wednesday night on
Highland Park High School, which
conservative talk radio has targeted for canceling the girls basketball team’s
trip to a tournament in Arizona.

“Them are fightin’
words when you say a girl can’t play in the basketball tournament … for political reasons … so we’re going
to see about that,” Palin said.

“I said, ‘Wait, I
thought it was already a crime for an illegal alien [to be here],“
Palin said to raucous cheers at
the Rosemont Theatre.

Noting that the Highland Park
girls held bake sales to pay their way to the national finals for the first time in 26 years, Palin suggested
conservatives could get the girls to Arizona despite
High School District 113′s decision to keep the girls home this winter.

Palin noted the school is
still sponsoring a trip to China.

“You know how they
treat girls in China?” Palin said. “It makes no sense. Even if
they have to do this on our own.
… If the kids have to ‘Go Rogue’ girls.”

In an earlier e-mail to
Pioneer Press, school district assistant superintendent Sue Hebson said the decision is not a political
statement, but rather for the safety of students.

“District 113 boasts a
diverse student population and, as a school district, we believe in equal opportunity for each of our
students,” she said. “We cannot commit at this time to playing at a venue where some of our
students’ safety or liberty might be placed at risk because of state immigration law.”

For 70 minutes, Palin
optimistically preached patriotism, praised Illinois for giving the world Ronald Reagan and the Tea Party
movement; slammed President Obama, moderation
and Illinois’ corrupt politicians — who she said reminded her of the people she kicked out of office back home in
“Alaahhhska.”

Palin spoke in a black leather
jacket and mini-skirt with her brunette hair hanging down, and a mammoth American flag behind her.

The former Alaska governor led
off by saying, “I’m really glad to be here on the president’s home turf. … The eyes of
America are on this state, watching what will come out of the political process and the 2012 elections: If it can
be done in Illinois, it can be done
anywhere.”

She urged her enthusiastic
fans not to settle for moderates to represent them: “Some Republicans apparently thought they’d
have to move to the middle to win. I said, ‘No, no, no, no, no. You win by letting the middle move to you. You
let the folks in the middle of the
road know that your ideas are the right ones.“

When she mentioned “Republicans
In Name Only” or “RINO’s,” a member of this very participatory crowd yelled out “Mark
Kirk” — the self-styled moderate GOP Senate candidate who did not attend Wednesday night’s event so he
could vote in Washington, D.C. Kirk has
equivocated on whether he is seeking Palin’s endorsement in his campaign for Obama’s old Senate seat.

When Palin said Obama “buffaloed
a whole lot of good people,” an audience member shouted out “Liar!” –
echoing a South Carolina congressman’s shout during Obama’s State of the Union Speech.

This Palin-loving crowd loved
it when Palin bashed the “Lamestream media.”

“Somebody told me,
‘You know you’re going into enemy territory.’ I said, ‘It’s Chicago — it’s not MSNBC.”

Palin said the mainstream
media demonized members of the Tea Party movement – which includes Palin, and, judging from
the cheers, many members of this audience.

“We’re being called
‘racist’ and ‘seditious’ and ‘redneck,’” she said. “I really
don’t mind the ‘redneck’ part. I’m
fine with that one. It’s no mystery who we are: We’re Americans; everyday hard-working patriotic
Americans. The 21st Century Tea Party movement, it starts right here in Chicago. This is where it starts. So
Illinois, your place in the history of
this grass movement has been instrumental.“

Earlier, Palin impressed
Illinois’ top Republicans willing to spend $500 to $25,000 at a fund-raiser for the state party.

“We talked about the
situation in Illinois — the deficit, the high taxes, job creation,”
said the party’s nominee for
governor, State Sen. Bill Brady of Bloomington. “I told her, ‘Your being here is helping rally the troops
and get the message out.’”

Brady and his lieutenant
governor candidate, Jason Plummer, both made last-minute decisions to attend the party
fund-raiser.

“She came in and was
gracious enough to help us raise money,” said state Sen. Jim Durkin. “It was very low-key,
no speeches. She just met with people and talked with them. She said we have the chance to win many
seats. People were very eager to take out their check books.”

Durkin brought a picture he
took with Palin, himself and Mike Ditka at a Latrobe, Pa., rally a week before the 2008 election,
which Palin signed for him.

“She said this could
be a good year for Republicans,” State GOP Chairman Patrick Brady said.

“It was a moving
experience,” said former GOP candidate for governor Adam Andrzejewski. “She was very
personable. She was encouraging us to keep up the fight for reform in Illinois.“

Some 4,000 Sarah Palin fans
paid the more reasonable $56 to spend “An Evening with Sarah Palin” later at the Rosemont
Theatre.

Lest you think Sarah’s ire over Highland Park’s decision to keep the girl’s at
home was simply political theater for the crowd, she was also banging away on
her Blackberry and posted some pointed message on twitter (See Slide Show)

Bloomberg News’ John McCormick reports:

Sarah
Palin, speaking in President Barack Obama’s adopted home state of Illinois,
rallied Republicans for electoral victory in November in places that have traditionally
voted Democratic.

“The eyes of America are on this state,” she said. “If
it can be done in Illinois, of course, it can be done anywhere.”

[***]

“We’re looking for principled conservatives who won’t pull a
bait-and-switch when they get to D.C.,” she said, predicting victory
for her party in November’s elections.

“We will get there,” she said. “God has shed his grace
on thee.”

The former governor, 46, said Obama won by misrepresenting himself, and his
popularity has fallen as Americans have gotten to know him better.

“He buffaloed a whole lot of good people,” she said. “But
now, their eyes are opened because he today, finally, has something he didn’t
ever have before — he has an actual record in office.”

“I almost feel a little bit sorry for the president and those on the
far left,” she said. “He expected us, I believe, to actually
thank him for providing constitutional rights to terrorists.” Palin
and some political allies have criticized the Justice Department for advising
some terrorism suspects of their rights to remain silent and to have a lawyer.

‘European-Style Socialism’

Palin said Obama is directing America toward a “European- style
socialism with a European-style debt crisis right around the corner.”

Palin’s appearance was sponsored by a Chicago radio station that features
syndicated programming from Glenn Beck, Dennis Miller and other conservative
commentators.

Sarah is shown with WIND Chicago’s Amy Jacobson from the Big John and
Amy Show in the lead photo above.

More from Bloomberg:

Palin has remained coy about her presidential aspirations while traveling
nationwide selling her memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life.”

Her next book, “America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag“
is scheduled to be released by publisher HarperCollins on Nov. 23. HarperCollins
is a unit of News Corp., which employs Palin as a Fox News
contributor.

[***]

A heroine of the Tea Party movement, which has protested federal deficits,
growth of government, and Democratic health- care legislation, Palin has
continued to keep a busy travel schedule. Later this week, she is scheduled to
appear in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the National Rifle Association’s annual
convention.

Last month, Palin headlined the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in
New Orleans, where she criticized the Obama administration’s plan for added
offshore oil and gas drilling as insufficient to address energy needs.

‘Drill, Baby, Drill’

“Let’s drill, baby, drill, not stall, baby, stall,” she said,
reprising one of her lines from the 2008 campaign.

That was before the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig
off the Louisiana coast. BP Plc has struggled to control the leaking well,
which has spilled an estimated 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) per day.

Palin didn’t back away from that position in Illinois.

“We do have to drill, we cannot stall,” she said. “We
do need oil. We might as well get it from here, where we do have stricter
oversight and more concern for the environment.”

All in all Sarah has shown she is more than willing to take on all comers and
is on a mission to not only defeat the steady march of Marxism, and the Obama
regime, but to take on those who play petty politics. As I write this, early
Thursday morning, it seems Sarah’s call for the Highland High School girl’s
basketball team to “go rogue” has caused quite a stir in the
national media, with the school being called out for playing politics with the
team.

This is the first time in decades the team has won the right to compete at this
level and it would be a crime for a bunch of far left, radical zealots to
punish these girls. If these loons want to hold the opinion that the Rule of
Law is bad, well…OK..free country, but to impose their will on these girls,
to oppress them in this manner, cannot be allowed to stand.

This is yet another example of the totalitarian nature of the radical left
Marxists that make up the democrat party.

BTW…if folks think Sarah was done when she left the Rosemont theater….She
was still banging on her Blackberry into the night and sent out one last tweet
saying how she couldn’t wait to get to Arizona, and taking a not so subtle
swipe at the so-called “Defenders of the Wildlife” group that
has been mis-representing her positions on wildlife management. (See Slide Show) 

*Stacy Drake contributed to this report

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