Seems to us that the American people want their President to be a manly man. Someone who can go toe-to-toe with Vladimir Putin. Somebody who can chop wood. Somebody who can fire a fastball down the middle of the plate.
Maybe that’s why there’s a bit of a correlation between the moment President Obama began slipping in the polls and the night he threw out that girly first pitch at the 2009 major league all-star game.
If that’s the case, then Charlie Crist, turncoat Republican and now Independent candidate for governor of Florida, assured his own defeat on Thursday when he threw out the first pitch at game two of the American League playoff game between Tampa Bay and Texas. It may have been the worst first pitches in the history of baseball.
Based on our previous experience with President Obama, it’s unfair to say that Crist throws like a girl. But it’s not unfair to say he throws like a Democrat.
