Sarah Palin made a campaign pit stop in Orlando yesterday to fire up a crowd of approximately 2,000 supporters.

“The momentum is with us, but now is not the time to let up. Now is the time where we dig deep,” Palin said. “You’ve been working hard, making great sacrifices. We need even more, though, in these next ten days.”

Palin expressed support several times for “common sense” solutions. “What this great country needs is a little bit of good ol’ Reaganism,” she said.

In a 30-minute speech, she hit current leadership on several points, but saved particular ire for the stimulus program, giving several examples of frivolous programs funded by the bill, such as a “grant to study the effects of excessive alcohol use on a mouse’s motor skills.”

“Didn’t know Mickey had a drinking problem,” Palin said. “It seems like they took all the crazy ideas in Pelosi’s inbox, and they dumped it out, and they added it up, and said, ‘$787 billion.’ Then what do we call it? Stimulus. Yeah, because nothing will stimulate this economy like a turtle tunnel in Tallahassee.”

Palin also hit President Obama’s admission that “shovel-ready” jobs don’t actually exist.

“Now we know what he’s been shoveling all along,” she joked.

The former Alaska governor and vice presidential nominee praised Marco Rubio for “going rogue” and taking on establishment candidate Charlie Crist in the GOP primary, saying she was, “very proud and encouraged by Marco.” Rubio spoke at the beginning of the rally, but left for another event before Palin arrived.

Also in fine form was Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, who arguably did the best job of working the crowd. The biggest boos were reserved for Orlando congressman Alan Grayson.

“I hear there’s some stuff going on down here that we need to address. And one of them has to do with a certain congressman,” he said as the crowd began to seethe, “named Grayson. I’m here to make it very clear: Stop your perpetratin’.”

Steele also addressed the tea party. “We — this team, the Republican party here in this state and nationally — we are grateful for the leadership of the tea party because they restored our faith in the Constitution and reminded us what we forgot in 2006 and 2008,” he said. “Let’s be clear. This is not victory for party. This is victory by people, for people, of people, we the people.”