Your Curmudgeon is a proud hockey fan, and he is also a political junkie. These two spheres have been mutually exclusive for the most part, and this is as it should be. Sure, there will be the occasional political figure, a governor or mayor, who does a ceremonial puck drop. These functions are to celebrate the game, to honor a team, or christen a new arena, and as such, these are tolerated.
It is another thing entirely to bring in a campaigning pol to get the candidate more face time and media exposure. That sort of thing just DOESN'T happen.
However, that is exactly just what happened last night, when Caribou Barbie dropped the puck at the Philadelphia Flyers' season opener against the New York Rangers:
Now, the Curmudgeon is no fan of the Broad Street Bullies, however it must be acknowledged that the Flyers' fans have a tolerance for bullshit approximate to his own, which is to say no tolerance at all. The crowd- who were there for some hockey- roundly booed this Milfy VP pretender. Booed loudly- enough so that the arena potted up the music multiple times to drown out the dissent.
Good on 'em for that.
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