I don't believe Schilling will run for Senate because I don't think he has the temperament for it. I could see him running for governor some day--he's got an executive's personality, not a legislator's--though maybe not in Massachusetts. After he retires, I suspect he'll get deeply involved with his philanthropy and play a lot of video games until he gets bored, at which point the competition and ego gratification of politics could appeal to him.

pacino wrote:

I don't believe Schilling will run for Senate because I don't think he has the temperament for it. I could see him running for governor some day--he's got an executive's personality, not a legislator's--though maybe not in Massachusetts. After he retires, I suspect he'll get deeply involved with his philanthropy and play a lot of video games until he gets bored, at which point the competition and ego gratification of politics could appeal to him.

At the risk of doing something I'm not supposed to do here--write about politics--I think it's worth pointing out that what those two guys have in common is a great life story. Obama's almost comically diverse background and unlikely emergence as a post-racial hero offering the potential of partisan reconciliation, McCain's POW ordeal and gradual emergence into a leader who also, at least for awhile, seemed like he could transcend the usual partisan crap and appeal to something more fundamental and benign in the national character. Americans want leaders who make them proud to be Americans; Obama and McCain come a lot closer to filling that bill than, say, a guy who couldn't stop lying or cheating on his wife, or an inarticulate boob who was born rich and screwed up everything he ever touched.