Dana Milbank

There’s word that “Stunning” Steve King, congressman from Iowa, wants a Saturday reprise of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann’s “Superbowl of Freedom” rally against health care reform. Before a second “House Call” protest blurs memories of the original, here is a sampling of reportage from a pair of eyewitnesses to Bachmann’s achievement on Thursday.

A pair of pieces from The Washington Post demonstrate in detail the dilemma the Republican ticket faces and how Gov. Sarah Palin has set about solving it. Life in Michigan has flatlined along with the economy, leading folks to vote Democratic — while at a rally in Clearwater, Fla., Palin gets the crowd riled with her “kind of rough” rhetoric. Links, quotes and video from a rally that got ugly after the jump.