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D.C. Area Activists Find Plenty to Smile About
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"We get it all the time," said Robert Kabel, chairman of the District's Republican Party and a delegate.
In the crowd, a pair from DC Vote, a nonprofit group trying to win voting rights in Congress for the District, passed out literature. One was dressed up as Abraham Lincoln.
The rally, one of the largest Republican events at the convention, was packed with delegates from Idaho, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. The District was invited by North Dakota, which shares its hotel.
Retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, a Medal of Honor recipient, drew hoots and applause when he called Palin a "gun-toting, hockey- and hoops-playing, non-lawyer mom."
The nine speakers included South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds, Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, former U.S House minority leader Richard K. Armey and former CIA director James Woolsey, among others.
Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming spoke about traveling to Iraq with McCain.
"No matter where we stopped, people knew John McCain," he said. "The soldiers look to John McCain as their commander in chief, and John McCain needs to be our commander in chief."
