If Sarah Palin was on a Jihad to get her ex-brother law Trooper Michael Wooten fired, my guess is that the Republican advance man who came up with the brilliant idea of the hockey puck drop at a Philidelphia Flyers game tonight is next on the hit list.

It’s hard to blame Sarah Palin for her booing on the ice in Philadelphia this evening. It’s almost a truism of politics that if you send a pol to a sporting event, he’s going to get booed. Politicians, as a class, aren’t all that popular, and it’s what sports fans do. According to legend, Eagles fans once booed Santa Claus. Still, not a great moment.

The Times hockey blog says the boos were “resounding.” The Wilmington paper says it was an “avalanche.”