I’m going to vow right here and now that I will try not to be lazy again when it comes to politics or following my gut about politics.

Yesterday John McCain and Sarah Palin were in town. There was a lot of coverage on both local and national news. I’m sure many of you saw it on TV with Palin doing her folky stitch and sounding more like Ed McMahon warming up for Johnny Carson ( for you younger folks she was like Paul Schaffer to David Letterman) and she hit all of the Palin talking points. McCain was trying to get the Tea Party voters by saying all the right words but, by all accounts, people were there to see Palin and not necessarily there to support McCain.

The two were going to show up at another rally today. I was reminded of this, and where I had to be most of the night was about five miles away from the rally. Unfortunately I didn’t have my camera with me, which I desperately wanted to have, which was 30 minutes away. I thought most of the night about going back home, getting the camera and coming back, but it would have taken at least an hour to do that and when I would become free was 7:00am and the rally was opening up at 7:30am for a 9am start.

After a lot of calculations I figured if I did go it might be a waste of time to document and I decided not to go.

I was at home, working on some things and watching the local news. Weekends is always a slow time for local news here, mostly relegated to gardening tips, boat shows, pets of the week and other fluff stuff. I figured with the amount of coverage yesterday there would be some reporters at the rally in the morning, but there was one station that even had semi-live coverage of the event and from the looks of the space and the crowd, from my vantage point, it looked like it wouldn’t be big. Secured that I had made the right decision I went on with my day.

About an hour ago I got a tweet from two national reporters I follow. The message was some protesters at the rally had been roughed up enough to where police were called in to take the people away. OK, that got me mad because I thought I could have been in the middle of that with my camera if I had planned better. Not sure if it was an exaggeration, I went online to look for some footage.

For the past hour and a half I have been trying to check all sources for a mention of the rally. There are lots of stories about the rally in Nevada, which Palin was attending after she finished here, and there were follow up stories from yesterday, but nothing about this morning. The local stations had nothing either, which I though was quite strange.

Just a few moments ago I saw a local station had posted raw footage of one of the protesters being roughed up by McCain/Palin supporters just before the police arrived. It wasn’t Rodney King violent, but those supporters did a pretty good beat down on the guy before the police could come in. And about that, I’m pretty sure the police were trying to move people off the guy, but I’m not so sure.

I found it ironic in the report some people were wondering why a protester showed up if they didn’t support McCain or Palin. It seems to me if you wanted to protest you would go to the rally, not wait and send threatening letters, faxes, calls or attempt to rally others to do the same.