I went to the inaugural baseball game at Philadelphia’s Citizen’s Bank Park. It was an exhibition between the Phillies and the Cleveland Indians. Then mayor, John Street, got the worst booing I have ever seen anyone get in any setting. It was loud, it was prolonged, it was unanimous, and it was humiliating. And John Street was a Democrat.
Philadelphia sports fans are the most notoriously ill-mannered sports fans in the nation. Way back in, I think, the 1960’s, Philly fans booed an appearance by Santa Claus. You don’t go to a Philadelphia sporting event expecting love from the audience if you know what you are doing. And that goes double for a Republican. Philadelphia is the most Democratic city in the country. I wouldn’t expect Barack Obama to get a positive reception at a Utah Jazz basketball game and I definitely would not expect Sarah Palin to get a positive reception at a Philadelphia Flyers hockey game.
I honestly have no idea why Sarah Palin has spent so much time in Philadelphia. She visited one of my old haunts in Philly, two weeks ago, and got this reception (which was totally predictable):
She also got her ass kicked when she went to a South Philly cheesesteak joint and screwed up McCain’s policy vis-a-vis Pakistan.
So it should not have been any surprise that the Philly audience booed the hell out of Sarah Palin tonight at the Flyers game:
I think John McCain is angry with his running mate and is sending her out to get abused. The idea that Palin would sell well in Philadelphia is so stupid that this must be an intentional strategy to humiliate his running mate.
