Schilling could be John Kerry's opponent in 2008 senate race

A pitch for Red Sox ace Curt Schilling to replace John Kerry in the U.S. Senate.

Today's Boston Herald reports there's a move to draft Schilling as Kerry's opponent in the 2008 senate race.

An online poll of 800 voters has Schilling leading Kerry by 96 percent.

Get it...a "pitch." I wonder if that poll was scientific...

im not sure if those yuppie new englander liberals will vote for a baseball player. and lord knows theres a lot of them in masschusetts.

Schill will eventually say something dumb and kill his political career before it starts.

Is there a source for this story?

I can see Schilling now, on election night, with a towel over his head as the results dribble in.

Good one Grizz.


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With a bloody ballot casting sock on?

Drugs Delaney wrote:Is there a source for this story?

Boston Herald

He's a Republican, isn't he?

Very much so, campaigned for Swann in PA around Super Bowl time last year.

I'm kind of afraid to say anything more about this.

21McBride wrote:

Drugs Delaney wrote:Is there a source for this story?

Boston Herald

Something wrong with my source?

phdave wrote:Something wrong with my source?

No, sorry. Didn't realize that your first post had a link in it.

Ramon Gris wrote:He's a Republican, isn't he?

Is the Republican party conservative and hawkish enough for Schilling?

dsc25 wrote:

Ramon Gris wrote:He's a Republican, isn't he?

Is the Republican party conservative and hawkish enough for Schilling?

Interestingly enough, he's a registered Democrat (at least the last time I checked, about a year ago).

Bakestar wrote:

dsc25 wrote:

Ramon Gris wrote:He's a Republican, isn't he?

Is the Republican party conservative and hawkish enough for Schilling?

Interestingly enough, he's a registered Democrat (at least the last time I checked, about a year ago).

He'd probably be better off as a Republican or Independent, than trying to win a Democrat primary against Senator Kerry.

In the story I read, Schilling noted that his top two choices for president next year are McCain and Obama. I think those choices suggest that his politics aren't particularly ideological; like his baseball thinking, they seem driven at bottom by emotion, though Schilling seems a smart enough guy that I bet he could plausibly BS some kind of connection.

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.

Curt probably identifies with those two guys, given his own weird path in life: moved around as a kid, close to his dad, his dad passed away, bounced from one organization to the next with a Nuke Laloosh reputation, suddenly seemed to catch up with his talent, then did some legendary things over an eight year stretch ('97-'04).

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.

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.a ... E_ID=41160

I had forgotten about this. The link is about his appearance on Good Morning America after the Red Sox won the World Series.

I'm pretty sure he campaigned for W after that also.

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well, here we are