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 Thousands of conservatives flocked to the Minneapolis convention center Wednesday afternoon for a rally on behalf of Rep. Michele Bachmann and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, two heroes of the Tea Party movement. "We've been criticized lately ... that we're the 'Party of No' and we're saying: What's wrong with being the 'Party of No,' when you consider what it is that Obama, Pelosi and Reid are trying to do to our country?" Taylor said the girls were home-schooled and she considered the event "social studies." "Will you do the rest of the nation a favor and reelect Michele Bachmann?" Before thousands of Minnesotans, former Alaska Gov.
– A political dream team—for the tea party set, anyway—of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann wowed the faithful today during a joint appearance in Minneapolis. "The tea party is growin' and steamin,'" declared Palin, who showed up to give Bachmann a boost in her campaign for re-election to Congress. She spent much of her speech lauding Bachmann for standing up to the trio of "Obama, Pelosi, and Reid." "Let me ask you, Minnesota, do you love your freedom?" Palin asked the crowd described as "rapturous" by the Star Tribune. "Voting for Michele ... is the belief that the government that governs least governs best." Bachmann returned the favor: "She is so one of us," she told the crowd of Palin, notes CBS.