I admit I didn't know that many homeschoolers growing up, but the ones that I remember were varying degrees of isolationist fundamentalists (or at least their parents were). I suppose it comes down to the reason people opt for home schooling – lack of faith in the public school system to deliver one-on-one attention and personally tailored education, or desire not to have their children brainwashed by liberal wackos or exposed to anything that might be even slightly upsetting. My experience has been entirely with the latter.

They weren't cheering Palin, though, they were cheering the governor of Hawaii who was merely talking about her (not very well, I might add). It didn't even sound like she was working the crowd, either, it sounded like she was reading lines out of a picture book called something like 'My Alaskan Mommy' and they were a 'cheer' track that the audio engineer was indiscriminately turning up and down.

'In the fall, she picks blackberries!'
[cheer fades in and out]
'She likes to make them into pie!'
[cheer fades in and out]
'Sometimes she freezes the pie for later!'
[cheer fades in and out]
'My best friend Aurora likes to come over and eat the pie!'
[cheer fades in and out]
'Then we play on our roller skates!'
[cheer fades in and out]

And on and on and on and on to the point where it sounded like they were mocking the format. Add the sheer lack of content and the patronizing dumbed-down speeches, and I had to turn it off before Palin even took the stage. I can't relate to any aspect of Obama's background but at least he doesn't talk to me like I'm in the second grade.