GOP Delegates Not Greeted Warmly

From the Boston Globe:

NEW YORK -- Attention, New Yorkers. Republican delegates from all over the country want you to know: They don't hold any of it against you.

June Rentmeester, of Richardson, Texas, doesn't blame you for the man who spat on her in the street the other day. Janice Koehne, of McQueeney, Texas, doesn't think you're responsible for the person who quietly said ''fascist" as he passed her. Jan Baldock, of Milwaukee, truly believes you want her to return to New York, even though people yelled, ''Go home!"

They believe most New Yorkers were tickled pink to have them in the city. They believe most of the troublemakers were professionals. Imports. Angry at everything. Lacking core beliefs.

I'm not sure they're right.

I think that a lot of Americans are concerned about the type of people who would get chosen as delegates at the GOP convention. Many seem to represent the nut case wing.

Naturally, I am horrified that people would spit on the delegates. But I'm not sure they're correct that most New Yorkers loved them. While the media tried to make protestors the villains months before the event, New Yorkers were NOT looking forward to the GOP convention and know that much of the GOP holds New York City in less than high respect. It was some of the extreme wingnuts, after all, who suggested that NYC was a great target for 9/11 because they "have so many foreigners" and is like a modern day Sodom.