O.U.C.H. - Palin BOOED....At Hockey Game

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O.U.C.H. - Palin BOOED....At Hockey Game
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Sat, 10-11-2008 - 11:40pm
That's gotta hurt (video).

Especially since it occurs to me that this won't run in the "politics" or "national" section of the paper (though it may run there as well, after getting this kind of attention), but in the SPORTS section, where typically not-very-political folks hang out alongside their more-political brethren. The injection of this story into the sports world may be one of the few glimpses of politics that some segment of the electorate which doesn't bother reading those stories usually will get this season. And it wasn't pretty.

Especially when you consider some of the write ups. Here's Forbes, not exactly a buncha commies:

Palin Gets Booed in Philly! This is sure to be the headline splashed across television and newspapers Sunday morning, the day after the Republican Vice Presidential candidate and hockey mom from Alaska drops the puck at the ceremonial face-off for the Philadelphia Flyers' home opener on Saturday night at the soon-to-need-a-name-change Wachovia Center. What will be missing from the news: the jeers were deserved.


Ow. That's gonna sting. Even the AP, while not identifiable as a conservative or pro-business outlet in the way that Forbes is, said the following...which (unlike Forbes) will be read in dozens of papers around the country tomorrow:

Palin was booed when she first stepped on the ice before the Flyers' home opener against the New York Rangers to drop the ceremonial first puck. Palin, the Alaska governor and self-described "hockey mom," is trying to turn Pennsylvania into a red state.


Someone not long ago wrote up a post here about the "bloom being off the rose?"

I think they were right....just not about the right candidate.

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Registered: 08-20-2008
Sat, 10-11-2008 - 11:44pm
The truth hurts. It's easier for Palin and her supporters to focus on other things.
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Registered: 10-20-2007
Sat, 10-11-2008 - 11:55pm

Not only is she making herself and McCain look bad, but latest news is that Palin and McCain are arguing about the direction of the campaign (see thread McCain and Palin Have Falling Out").


What a MESS they have made.

 

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Registered: 11-11-1999
Sat, 10-11-2008 - 11:58pm

Philadelphia is

dablacksox


Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 12:36am

(((That's right-Philly fans booed Santa Claus.))))


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Registered: 04-17-2003
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 12:42am

hehehe, I'm no kind of Palin/McCain supporter, but I figured she'd have a decent time with this event, having called dibs on it long ago with the whole so-called Hockey-mom persona.

Even that cannot work out for them, they just can't get a break in this campaign. Just goes to show, what goes around comes around.

 

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Sun, 10-12-2008 - 12:43am

 

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Registered: 11-11-1999
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 12:52am

There are a lot of Republicans in the Philly area, but they have a tendency to be to old WASP Eastern Establishment Republicans that are deserting the party now because of the lunatic fringe taking over. The party now, for the most part, are the yahoos from rural areas of the south, west, and midwest. Philly itself is Democratic as is the Irish Catholic and working class areas of the suburbs.


Philly is a really interesting place. Any place that could spawn someone like my late wife is definitely in favor with God, even if they do boo Santa Claus.

dablacksox


Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

dablacksox


Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.

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Registered: 02-10-2008
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 12:57am

LOL, karma is a b*tch! The irony of Palin being booed at a hockey game is delicious. It proves that her narrow view of conservatives and the average American is flawed. She banked that her thinly veiled rhetoric of hate would be acceptable to white middle class moms. That her fear tactics would work. What she did not realize is that many Americans intensely dislike injustice and hypocrisy. McCain's legacy has been severely damaged by this woman.

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Registered: 08-05-2004
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 9:17am
I'm personally not a Palin fan at all, but I felt a little sad when I saw that.
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Registered: 01-12-2007
Sun, 10-12-2008 - 9:24am

Aww another punch a little kids by the left.

   

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