Holy crap! She actually showed up! Updated.

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told about 5,000 supporters in Wisconsin to continue to press lawmakers on abortion issues.

Wisconsin Right to Life officials say Palin's low-profile stop in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis on Friday night was more than a year in the making.

A year in the making? You mean she started to plan this back in November of 2008? Before or after she lost the election?

Palin told the crowd they "went rogue" -- a reference to her upcoming memoirs -- with their support of the cause.

What is with her and the word "rogue"? Does she not remember why it was first used by her attack lizard, Meg Stapleton? And does she still not know what it means?

1.a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel. (Sounds good.)
2.a playfully mischievous person; scamp: The youngest boys are little rogues. (NOT descriptive of Palin!)
3.a tramp or vagabond. (Oooh now THAT fits!)
4.a rogue elephant or other animal of similar disposition. (Yep, that works too.)
5.Biology. a usually inferior organism, esp. a plant, varying markedly from the normal. (By far my favorite!)

She didn't mention President Barack Obama by name in her 25-minute speech, but briefly touched on health care reform legislation and pressed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to make sure all voices were heard on the issue.

Does she mean the same voices calling for an overthrow of the government and making up lies about the health care bill? Does she mean those voices?

Organizers said media wouldn't be allowed to cover the event. General admission tickets were $30.

Let's see, 5000 people, at $30 a head, equals a cool $150,000.

Subtract Palin's asking price for giving a speech of $100,000, and that leaves around $50,000, minus expenses, to use to in the battle to take away a woman's right to control her reproductive system.

Gee I hope it was worth it to the Wisconsin Right to Life people. Just doesn't seem terribly cost effective to me.

Hey maybe she decided to skip the speaker's fee and do it out of the goodness of her heart?

Ha, ha, ha, ha, "goodness of her heart", I crack myself up sometimes!

Update: Here is an article about the event from the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.

Palin uses tired old line:

"We were told to sit down and shut up," Palin said. "Wisconsin, you went rogue."

She adds some new detail to her Trig birth story. (Liars always make alterations to their stories. That is why they usually get caught.)

Palin spoke movingly of her youngest son, Trig, who has Down syndrome. She recalled that when she was pregnant, she underwent an ultrasound and the technician told her, "I see boy parts." (That's new.)

Later, the technician told her that the baby's neck "is a little bit thicker," an indication that there might be an extra chromosome. A few days later, Down syndrome was confirmed. (Also new.)

"I was scared," Palin said, adding that she asked her husband, Todd, "Why us?" He responded, "Why not?" (That was also said in the book "Trailblazer" on page 182. Not new.)

Palin learned her lesson about security from her China visit.

Security was tight at the Wisconsin Exposition Center. Spectators were told beforehand that prohibited items included cell phones, recording devices, video and still cameras, as well as strollers and car seats. A line stretched across the length of the facility and out to a parking lot as spectators waited patiently to pass through security.

She then demonstrated her creepy fixation on President Obama by stealing from his speeches.

She used President Barack Obama's mantra of change to make her political points.

"Let's talk about change we can believe in," Palin said. "Friends, a majority of Americans identify as pro life, and thank God for that."

Then she got all "teabaggy".

She called health care reform a "government takeover" and called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to at least allow a congressional vote to prohibit federally sponsored health insurance plans to pay for abortions. (Which is not in the bill.)

"I feel real change is just up ahead," she said. "Wisconsin, we need to ramp it up."

She brought the crowd to its feet with a simple closing line: "Don't let anyone ever tell you to sit down and shut up."

Kind of ironic statement about standing up for your rights coming from a woman who refused to allow cell phones, cameras, or recording devices at her speech. I am just saying.

You can get much more over at Mudflats. They had "boots on the ground" in the Exposition Center.

BTW it look like Sarah made a big deal about giving the group a check for $1,000. (It was one of those GIANT checks, which no bank would accept for deposit.) Does that mean she did NOT get a speaking fee? Because, for Sarah, that would be highly unusual.

Hmm now I am intrigued.