I'm still scratching my head--why didn't they drag Palin to a NASCAR rally or something?

[Bicoastal]

The McCain camp is truly tone deaf.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Huh? Hockey's pretty damn white. I don't blame them for thinking that'd be safe.

[polichick]

4. They seriously underestimated how Philly feels about Psycho Sarah.

[BlooInBloo]

13. Apparently so! lolol!

[Bicoastal]

6. Didn't she just recently smear "East Coast liberals" in one of her speeches?

Among other reasons...

[BlooInBloo]

12. (shrug) I doubt if Joe Hockey cares much for the "Woody Allen types" either....

Obviously it didn't work out for Palin, but it just doesn't seem like all that stupid to think that it *would* work out.

[Matariki]

18. yeah, white people are really stupid.

kidding.

but seriously, what does it have to do with it?

[BlooInBloo]

20. Not as a general rule, but it becomes much closer to true when you limit it to...

hockey fans.

But there's really nothing for us to discuss, if you're going to pretend to not understand the relevance of race in the first place.

[Matariki]

27. fair enough on the hockey thing

Not looking for an argument over this, was mostly kidding around. Interweb communication, you know how that goes sometimes.

[Poseidan]

25. have to be more than white

You also have to be trash.

[BlooInBloo]

26. Well maybe they can downgrade, and try SUNDAY!SUNDAY!SUNDAY! next.

[polichick]

2. Really, how dumb can they get? Last time she was in Philly, they booed her.

[PBS Poll-435]

3. Nascar seems much more appropriate than a hockey game in one of the

Most Democratic/blue cities in America.

[stray cat]

5. Thats why she dragged the little girl out - a political use to try to avoid boos

using your little girl as a political tool and putting her in a situation where she whould be booed by a massive crowd

[RagAss]

7. and she threw a Flyers jersey on the poor kid too.....

[Essene]

8. i think the Mccain campaign is poorly run and they are delusional

[DawgHouse]

9. I'm not really up on this but

didn't the Flyers receive some money for this for their hockey club?

[godai]

10. She's been hanging out in Philly for some reason.

I'll bet she wanted a Phillies game but they probably turned her down.

[antonialee839]

16. She's hanging out in Philly because Snider is one

of the most major, right wing, donor maxed out, tools there is. I'm sure he's busy snuffling out money for McPalin. Too bad for him most of the true Flyers fans are blue collar.

[lib2DaBone]

24. I'm Curious? Is Phily tradtionally Republican or Demo?

Palin went there for a reason. She wouldn't go anywhere where the odds were equal. I'm thinking that Philly is a right-wing town, and that is why she went there to milk the base. I could be wrong? Just asking...

[godai]

30. Overall Democratic, with Repub voters in white ethnic neighborhoods.

Milk the base may make sense, to try to make the Philly margin smaller for Democrats.

[BeFree]

11. Wrong...

... they are in tune up with their base - racist Americans. They know what they are doing, its just that racism is all they got.

It pleases me to no end to know that racism in America is going to go down hard in this election. A major hurdle to progress in the US is gonna be overcome. And in just a few weeks and we will have become a better country for that.

[TornadoTN]

14. They probably thought they would be welcomed, they are that blind. And they brought insurance

Their insurance was the fact that she brought the kids. She's used them as human shields and props all during the campaign.

Bravo, Philly. Life is hard and sometimes kids get brought into the fray by idiotic parents. Hopefully the kids learn from this and perhaps learn that what their mom stands for isn't good for the people in this country.

[ClarkUSA]

15. It was the McCainiac Comcast Chairman's idea (they own the Flyers)

And the McCain campaign obviously wanted to step on Obama's big day of campaigning P.R. in the city.

[TheCowsCameHome]

17. She's never seen a road without ice on it, let alone a track

[Catch22Dem]

19. Because she's the "hockey mom" candidate (n/t)

[Bicoastal]

21. Surely there was a Carolina Hurricanes game she could have gone to?

[knowledgeispwr]

28. I'm not sure the reception would have been much better. n/t

[eleny]

22. oops nevermind

[Occam Bandage]

23. She ain't a 'NASCAR mom.'

[TornadoTN]

29. They are sending the Pill Popper to Charlotte for the race

I'm not sure how the Botoxed Pill Popper qualifies as a key demographic of NASCAR, but they are sending her to that one. Where I'm sure she'll get a rousing round of applause. Mainly because they think she pisses their beer.