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To: mistermj who wrote (266109)	9/5/2008 2:37:34 PM
From: Ron M	3 Recommendations Respond to of 793622

"Read My Lipstick"---Palin supporter in Cedarburg, WI Being a former cheesehead, I watched with interest as they hit the small town circuit. Here is the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal report of the campaign stop: FRIDAY, Sept. 5, 2008, 12 p.m. By Dave Umhoefer McCain, Palin fire up Cedarburg crowd Cedarburg - At a packed street rally here this morning, Republican John McCain used his first post-convention stop to promise a war on special-interest influence and excessive partisanship in Washington, D.C. "We're going to start to work for the people of this country," McCain shouted. "It's over for the special interests. It's over!" The Arizona senator joined Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, his vice presidential pick, in front of an ice cream shop on a well-preserved main street the city says is virtually unchanged since 1900. Without mentioning specifics in a brief address downtown, McCain said the duo would visit small towns across America to talk about real change. Palin drew the loudest cheers and chants of "Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!" Both repeated popular lines from their convention speeches. McCain briefly touched on "tough times" facing job-seekers in Wisconsin and across the U.S. and promised lower taxes and better job training. Palin focused mainly on the war in Iraq. She hit Democrat Barack Obama hard for opposing the troop surge. If Obama's view had won out, she said, America would be less safe from al-Qaida, and it "would have left millions of innocent people to a violent fate." The nominees chose one of the most reliably Republican counties in a hotly contested state to start the final two-month sprint in the marathon presidential race. Ozaukee County backed the Bush-Cheney ticket by 2-to-1 margins in both 2000 and 2004. But polls leading up to the Republican convention showed that McCain still had work to do firing up the kind of core GOP voters that reside in Ozaukee County. Campaign finance reports show that Obama had raised more money than McCain in Ozaukee County - one of the wealthiest counties in America - for the 18 months ending June 30. No enthusiasm gap was evident today as McCain sought to build on momentum gained from Palin's surprise selection and the high-energy reception that both Palin and McCain received at the GOP gathering in St. Paul this week. A lot of the interest seemed to be for Palin. Sara Rattan, 49, of Menomonee Falls carried a sign that read, "Read My Lipstick," a nod to a joke Palin told during her speech at the Republican National Convention. "She makes me want to do more with my life because she's done so much with her life at such an early age," she said. Christina Brockhaus, 30, of West Bend wasn't close enough during the speeches to see the stage, so she climbed the railing of temporary bleachers near the stage afterward, but the most she could see was Cindy McCain's blond hair. "I would have killed to see Sarah Palin," she said. Brockhaus said that as a moderate Republican she found both John McCain's and Palin's speeches "refreshing." "I'm a (deer) hunting mom, and I just think she's phenomenal," Brockhaus said of Palin. "Everything about her appeals to me." McCain and Palin pressed the flesh in an adoring crowd of thousands. Tom Kertscher of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.