The "Rally to Restore Sanity" has inspired satellite rallies all over the country. I guess we could ALL use a little more sanity.

Politico:

Soon after Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity was announced, a handful of satellite rallies were announced via Facebook. Now there are shadow rallies planned in 47 states and six foreign countries for October 30, according to rallymao.com, and predicted attendance numbers keep climbing. It seems the world is going crazy for sanity.

POLITICO spoke to organizers for a few of the farther-flung rallies to find out why Stewart’s event is resonating so far and wide.

Amy Lee, along with her friend Ashley Wright, is organizing the Los Angeles-based Rally to Restore Sanity.

“A couple of weeks ago, while we were having dinner together, we were talking about how much we wanted to go to the D.C. rally,” wrote Lee, a 38 year-old who works in production and H.R, and Wright, a 32 year-old post-doctoral biology scholar at Caltech, in an e-mail. “Unfortunately, we couldn’t afford the time and money it would take to travel all the way to the East Coast.” They said that within two weeks of setting up a Facebook page for their event, 2,500 people had signed up to support a rally at L.A.'s Pershing Square.*

“We are Jon Stewart fans who love the spirit of the D.C. rally to ‘Take it Down a Notch for America’,” Lee and Wright added. The pair, along with a number of volunteer organizers, are trying to raise funds for a LED Screen to broadcast the main D.C. event to the crowd.

Similarly, Alaskan Blake Merrifield, a 38-year-old construction worker, told POLITICO that he hopes the Wasilla-based rally he has planned will give some Alaskans a brief respite from the extremes of the current political dialogue.

“For us this is a temporary cease-fire in a particularly hostile political season. It is a chance for the community to get together and have a laugh and a smile at the absurdity that is politics and media today,” Merrifield said.

Wow, I guess I could ahve saved the money on plane tickets and stayed for the rally in Wasilla.  Is it even possible to restore sanity in Wasilla?

The Chicago Tribune muses that perhaps this rally will give voice to the "Silent Majority."

Many have taken to calling themselves "we the people," because it sounds rebel-ish, in a tri-cornered hat kind of way. The nation is swept up in anti-incumbent fervor, and we're mad. We're mad, mad, mad, mad.

Except that, by and large, we're not really all that mad. A Pew Research Center poll earlier this year found only 21 percent of Americans "angry" at the federal government. And the term "anti-incumbent fervor" loses a bit when you learn that, according to political scientist Michael Robinson, 98 percent of all congressional incumbents who ran in this year's primaries prevailed. If the narratives of this election season can — GASP! — be called into question, it's worth considering whether an upcoming comedic event might present a more serious reflection of our collective state of mind.

You know the opportunity to demonstrate that the majority of Americans are not out of their freaking minds, or disappointed in the Obama administration because the media keeps telling them they ought to be, seems like perhaps one of the best reasons to hold a rally that I can imagine.

Just to give you an update on my plans for the rally, I have recently purchased a small, not terribly expensive computer, called the ASUS.  It is a fast little guy and it will get the job done for any blogging I might do while attending the rally. (And before all of you MAC people start giving me a hard time I looked into purchasing one of their laptops but could not find one for less than $1,200.00 and just did NOT feel like paying that much for a computer that I may only use occasionally when I return home.)

I just got off the phone to confirm my hotel reservations, and it looks like everything is a go. 

I have received a number of e-mails from people who want to meet up and I think that would be fun so I will try to organize a time and place for us to meet.  I do not know the area so any help that you can provide would be wonderful. The Mudpuppies are already organizing something as well and so we can all meet as one group or do a separate meetup if you all want.

I will be in D.C. on October 28th, and leaving the day after the rally so I will have some time to sightsee and meet with people.

As it gets closer to the day of my departure I have to say I am starting to get pretty excited.  I think it will be a blast and am glad I caved into the pressure I received from some of you to attend.

See? Sometimes being a pain in the ass does work!