Sarah Palin is Pucking Her Way into Pennsylvanians' Hearts
Sarah Palin, what a multitasker! In the short time we've known her, she's proven her ability to be a pitbull, a part-time cosmetics consultant, a beer enthusiast, the governor of Alaska, a voracious reader and John McCain's vice presidential candidate.
But this weekend, Palin will be recognized for her most important role on the national stage: hockey mom…
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the nation's most popular hockey mom, will join the winner of the Philadelphia Flyers regional search for the "Ultimate Hockey Mom" contest and drop the puck at the ceremonial opening face-off as the home team Flyers host the New York Rangers at the Wachovia Center on Saturday, October 11 at 7 p.m.
If you go, be sure to stick around after the game, when the winner of the Philadelphia Flyers regional "Ultimate Hockey Mom" contest will be appointed to the Supreme Court.
Update (from Dennis): Listen, I'm from Philly. I've sat in the 400 Level of old Veterans Stadium and watch crazy assholes get drunk and shout crazy asshole drunk things at any non-Philadelphians (and many Philadelphians) a goodly number of times.
So, having experienced that — and having experienced how Blue most of the city is — my first thought when I read this post was "bad idea." And I'm not the only one…
If there is one thing I know, it is Philadelphia sports fans. The reception will be loud, and, I don't think particularly positive.
Paging Angelo Cataldi: If you can stir up fans to boo a then-rookie Donovan McNabb, you can organize this, too.
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I'm not a hockey fan so I'm a little confused. "When speed, skill and finesse dont work …just slam them into the boards or trip them with your stick." Was that a reference to the Flyers' defensive skills or to the McCain campaign's less-than-effective strategies? 'Cause I imagine it could be either one, and I liked the comment, however you meant it.
The funny thing is that Flyer tickets are so expensive (along with Eagles & Phillies) that the majority of the fans attending a game are mainline suburbain yuppies.
I had an opportunity to go to an Eagles/Dolphins games at The Vet wearing a Marino jersey in college. Someone urinated on my foot in the "restroom."
Politics of Attack
It is a sorry fact of American political life that campaigns get ugly, often in their final weeks. But Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin have been running one of the most appalling campaigns we can remember.
They have gone far beyond the usual fare of quotes taken out of context and distortions of an opponent’s record — into the dark territory of race-baiting and xenophobia. Senator Barack Obama has taken some cheap shots at Mr. McCain, but there is no comparison.
Despite the occasional slip (referring to Mr. Obama’s “cronies” and calling him “that one”), Mr. McCain tried to take a higher road in Tuesday night’s presidential debate. It was hard to keep track of the number of times he referred to his audience as “my friends.” But apart from promising to buy up troubled mortgages as president, he offered no real answers for how he plans to solve the country’s deep economic crisis. He is unable or unwilling to admit that the Republican assault on regulation was to blame.
Ninety minutes of forced cordiality did not erase the dismal ugliness of his campaign in recent weeks, nor did it leave us with much hope that he would not just return to the same dismal ugliness on Wednesday.
Ms. Palin, in particular, revels in the attack. Her campaign rallies have become spectacles of anger and insult. “This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America,” Ms. Palin has taken to saying.
That line follows passages in Ms. Palin’s new stump speech in which she twists Mr. Obama’s ill-advised but fleeting and long-past association with William Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground and confessed bomber. By the time she’s done, she implies that Mr. Obama is right now a close friend of Mr. Ayers — and sympathetic to the violent overthrow of the government. The Democrat, she says, “sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”
Her demagoguery has elicited some frightening, intolerable responses. A recent Washington Post report said at a rally in Florida this week a man yelled “kill him!” as Ms. Palin delivered that line and others shouted epithets at an African-American member of a TV crew.
Mr. McCain’s aides haven’t even tried to hide their cynical tactics, saying they were “going negative” in hopes of shifting attention away from the financial crisis — and by implication Mr. McCain’s stumbling response.
We certainly expected better from Mr. McCain, who once showed withering contempt for win-at-any-cost politics. He was driven out of the 2000 Republican primaries by this sort of smear, orchestrated by some of the same people who are now running his campaign.
And the tactic of guilt by association is perplexing, since Mr. McCain has his own list of political associates he would rather forget. We were disappointed to see the Obama campaign air an ad (held for just this occasion) reminding voters of Mr. McCain’s involvement in the Keating Five savings-and-loan debacle, for which he was reprimanded by the Senate. That episode at least bears on Mr. McCain’s claims to be the morally pure candidate and his argument that he alone is capable of doing away with greed, fraud and abuse.
In a way, we should not be surprised that Mr. McCain has stooped so low, since the debate showed once again that he has little else to talk about. He long ago abandoned his signature issues of immigration reform and global warming; his talk of “victory” in Iraq has little to offer a war-weary nation; and his Reagan-inspired ideology of starving government and shredding regulation lies in tatters on Wall Street.
But surely, Mr. McCain and his team can come up with a better answer to that problem than inciting more division, anger and hatred.
She will surely suck Ed Snyder's Comcast Cock in the Corporate Suite or perhaps Ed Snyder will suck her Alaskan Moose Cock in the Corporate Suite. The things you do for future considerations by the FCC or to be VP.
Puck her, and the moose who rode her in, the lying harpy.
@Dennis: GO SOX! We're coming to get your stanky team. Say hi to Wild Thing.
First Tampa, Next Philly–the dirtiest city in the country.
BOSTON'S TENTH MAN COULD NOT BE WRONG!!!
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