The title of my post is what I hope the response is to this:

After appearing at a Republican fund-raiser at the Park Hyatt at the Bellevue on Saturday afternoon, (Sarah Palin) is to drop the ceremonial first puck at the Flyers' regular-season opener at the Wachovia Center.

"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," said Comcast-Spectacor chairman Ed Snider, who runs the Flyers.

Last month, after Palin spoke in her acceptance speech about being a hockey mom, the Flyers launched a search for the area's "ultimate hockey mom." The winner will be on the ice with Palin for the faceoff.

Snider attended a reception for the Alaska governor at the Irish Pub in Center City on Sept. 26, the night of the first debate between Obama and Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

In late June, Snider contributed a total of $25,000 to the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee, according to the records of the Federal Election Commission.

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.

1) For all that is good and holy, can Wilson Goode just hold a damn press conference, tell everything and answer any question, so that this can end? Seriously, it is just not a good idea to deny something when one of you emailed around the office pictures that directly contradict you.

2) Low life scumbags have started the process of trying to suppress the vote.

3) Christine Flowers is the worst columnist in the history of the world. I am not sure what is more shocking: that she still has a newspaper column, or that 6-ABC pays to hear her speak on "Inside Story" every Saturday morning.

4) Also, Sarah Palin is also, clearly unqualified, also, to be a City Councilman, also, from Philadelphia, let alone the VP of a sickly, 72-year old triple cancer survivor. Also. When I gave my little reading on banned books at the library I said something like "It is flattering to speak in front an entire auditorium of people more qualified to be Vice President than Sarah Palin." Also.

5) We are going to have a big party for the last debate. Stay tuned for details. Also.

6) Some random SEPTA thoughts. Two things that I know are small in the grand scheme of things, but... 1) People have reacted positively to SEPTA's new regional rail trains. Cool. But, how hard would it have been to put in a bathroom and a router for wifi? And 2), is it so hard for the auto-announcers that give the upcoming stops on the Broad Street Line to be able to actually prounounce the name of Philadelphia streets? On the way to the game yesterday, I passed a street apparently named "Lom-BOOOOREd", as well as some strange British version of Oregon.

Whoever this Ed Rendell dude is, we need to put him in front of the cameras:

"She [claims to be] a reformer," said the Pennsylvania Democrat. "And yet she is being investigated on the charge that she used her power as governor to fire someone who was going through a messy divorce with a relative of hers. Could you imagine if I was doing the same thing in Pennsylvania? You would be calling for my impeachment."

Zing!

In between getting lessons in how to dress from Vaughn Hebron, Big Poppa Rendell also said this:

"[The McCain camp] has tried to again obscure the facts about Gov. Palin. 'She is a reformer and against earmarks.' No she isn't, when she was mayor of that town she hired a lobbyist to get earmarks... 'She was against the bridge to nowhere.' No she wasn't. She was for the bridge to nowhere first... She is a budget balancer. But she left the town in greater debt then when she became mayor, so she is not a budget balancer."

And this:

"First of all, let me say it should be embarrassing for the Republican ticket that Rick Davis, Sen. McCain's campaign manager, said 'this election is not about issues.' Good lord, with all the challenges facing America it has to be about issues...They don't want to talk about issues because when the truth comes out about issues the American people will favor Sen. Obama tremendously."

The Republicans, he added, "would make the all time all-star team for spiders the way they can spin."

Get this man a hoagie and lots of national camera time, because it is about time Democrats started dealing bluntly with McCain/Palin.