McCain/Palin/Phillies In 2008

Here, John McCain attempts a last-ditch effort to win the presidency with signs that say he is not for 28 more years of title-free baseball in this town. He is for a World Championship in 2008, and one in 2009, too. And 2010 and 2011 and 2012. Four more years of championships!

[via John]

Tom Ridge: I Shoulda Been VP!

At this point, John McCain would need a super secret brainwashin’ ray to have a shot at winning the presidency next week. Oh, wait, or he could have just picked Tom Ridge as his vice president!

“I think the dynamics would be different in Pennsylvania,” Ridge said when asked if he should have been chosen to run as vice president over Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. “I think we’d be foolish not to admit it publicly.”

Ha, yes, the guy with the color-coded terrorism awareness charts would totally help John McCain more than Sarah Palin; perhaps he’d have more than a 1% chance of winning Pennsylvania then!

Tom Ridge says Race Would be Different if he were VP [Clout]

Scranton Spells Out Its Palin Love

Sarah Palin was recently in Scranton. After being introduced by a guy saying “Sweet Home Pennsylvania” (she’s from Scranton, too, apparently) and “Gonna Fly Now,” Palin entered to see a bunch of random letters in a row (above).

Good job, Scranton. Way to make her proud of ya.

Screencapture from Scranton Times-Tribune video

Rangers Fan To Drop Ceremonial First Puck At Flyers Opener

Philly Edge checks in with a reminder about Sarah Palin’s ceremonial puck-dropping at the Flyers opener. It seems Michael Klein wrote a little ditty on Sunday about a near faux paus by Palin her last time in town:

Bobbi and Garry Adair of Montgomeryville were on a down elevator last Sunday at the Westin in Center City – he in a Phillies shirt, she in a Donovan McNabb Eagles jersey – when the door opened.

In stepped Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (left) and her security guys. Palin wore a New York Rangers sweater with “Palin 08″ on the back.

Bobbi Adair greeted the veep candidate and asked what she was up to.

Going for a run, Palin replied.

“Not in that shirt you’re not,” Adair says she told her.

Which explains why Palin jogged in a green No. 5 jersey, topped by a pink cap. News anchors later praised her sartorial sense.

I can’t believe the Adairs. Could you imagine how funny it would be if Sarah Palin ran around Philadelphia for a photo op with a New York Rangers jersey on? It’d be front page news for weeks. And the team the Flyers play opening night? Of course: The New York Rangers.

Will Bunch is predictably hilariously upset about all of this: “Flyers fans should be outraged — even conservative ones, because this misuse of a hockey game for his political agenda is flat out wrong.” That’ll be five minutes for misuse of a hockey game.

Sarah Palin. To Drop First Puck. At Flyers Opener.

Let the “Hockey Mom” puns begin. Sarah Palin is dropping the puck at the Flyers opener. I assume that Sarah Palin, being a true blue fan of the game and an aw-shucks folksy Alaskan, is not doing any sort of “ceremonial” nonsense; she is probably refereeing the contest as well.

Comcast Spectacor’s press release says otherwise; they must just be pulling our chain. An excerpt:

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.

“Because of the tremendous amount of publicity she has brought to our sport, we invited the most popular hockey mom in North America to our home opener to help us get our season started,” said Comcast-Spectacor Chairman Ed Snider who founded the Flyers in 1967. “We are very excited she has accepted our offer and we are very proud of the publicity she is generating for hockey moms and the sport of hockey.”

See, they’re bringing out a regular hockey mom along with Palin so you can’t boo her. (This is like when Pat Croce introduced Sugar Ray before Game 5 of the 2001 NBA Finals.) Also, why only a regional search for the Ultimate Hockey Mom? Pretty soon John McCain’s going to suspend his campaign to say we should only vote in Alaska.

It’s a good thing Palin finally got some publicity for the sport of hockey, though.

Meet the Flyers new hockey mom: Sarah! As in Palin! [Inquirer]

VP Debate To Draw Up To 5 People Away From Watching Phillies Game

Well, well! It looks like Sarah Palin is a fake Phillies fan indeed! Instead of watching Game 2 like everybody else, Palin will apparently be debating Joe Biden tonight on the teevee.

KYW 1060 details the brand new dilemma: Two things on television at the same time that people want to watch! Who ever knew there could be two interesting things on TV at once? I had no idea the medium had gotten that good.

Of course, the radio station calls in an expert to let us know what will actually be happening:

Miller also points out that baseball is a game with a lot of pauses and down time, and he suspects a lot of remotes will get a workout if there’s a conflict.

Ahh, yes, the so-called “remote control.” A fine new invention, but I doubt it will catch on.

VP Debate, Phillies Game Compete for TV Viewers [KYW 1060]

Sarah Palin’s Irish Pub Trip

Oh, yeah, so: The debate. Eh. I didn’t watch it. I don’t care. But, look, people protested Sarah Palin outside of Irish Pub! And Ed Snider was there, huntin’ moose! And.. ah… oh, that’s about it.

She also wore a Phillies jacket. Quoting The 700 Level: “Rumor has it her next stop is Flushing, New York to help support the Mets post season trip to nowhere.” Ha, ha, ha. Oh, sorry.

Anyway, here’s what

It’s great to be here in the city of brotherly and sisterly love.

As you may know, the word Philadelphia means City of Brotherly Love. Looks like Sarah Palin is using a bit of liberal political correct speech (that’s also, um, incorrect). Yep, if there’s one thing Republicans love, it’s inclusion and political correctness.

No word if Sarah Palin went home with a PUA named JaMMeR who negged her all night. You know, things like, “Hey baby, I hear that Biden guy is more experienced.” Oh, or maybe he told her a story about his friend going on Maury!

Palin Glad-Hands To Cheers In Pub As Protesters Jeer Outside [Fox 29]

Sarah Palin. To Watch Debate. At Irish Pub.

Art from Foobooz passes along this information, another in a recent string of events in Philadelphia that are just so perfect it’s like somebody’s planting news stories for local bloggers to make jokes about.

So, yes, the headline is correct: Sarah Palin is tentatively watching the debate at Irish Pub tomorrow night. If you need to ask which one, just think: Which one could attract a crowd that would vote for John McCain, and which one is in the Gayborhood?

Fox 29 reports Palin is currently in “an unspecified location in our area.” Pat Burrell will, unfortunately, be unable to attend the Irish Pub soiree, as the Phils have a game. Oh, Burrell/Irish Pub jokes never get old.

This Week’s Sign Of The Apocalypse [Foobooz]

Arlen Specter Tired Of This Crap

I just want to find Jessica Griffin right now and thank her for this photo in today’s paper (and currently on the front of Philly.com). There’s John McCain and Sarah Palin, apparently doing a cheerleader routine. (Either that, or Palin doesn’t know how to signal touchdown.) Then there’s ol’ Arlen Specter, the only man in America older than John McCain, looking like he just wants to go home and bitch about politics for a while. I can only imagine his thoughts. “I’ve been a politician since the Depression and she gets to be vice president because she hunted a few moose?”

Or maybe he just wants to get this over with so everyone’s Facebook status messages go back to being regular annoying instead of 2008 election annoying.

Update: Oh, I almost forgot, Sen. Specter even appeared much more gracious when he had to deal with a question about the North American Union and the new “amero” currency. I’m going to print this photo out and hang it on my wall.