Chicago PBS running 30 min Ditka campaign ad

[Doctor_J]

disguised as "Chicago Tonight" talk show. 1 GOP hostes and 2 GOP guests vs. 1 Dem guest, who isn't being allowed to talk.

Gonna be tough, gang.

[Jade Fox]

1. gawd, I can't believe he's actually going to run for senator!

No doubt he will get the Jesse Ventura vote in IL. Damn

[Tweed]

2. You underestimate Obama........

[Doctor_J]

3. hopefully he will run an agressive campaign

call for many debates, run commercials featuring Ditka's drunken appearances on TV, his arrest record, and so on.

[Tweed]

4. Obama is a campaign genius

He got 52% of the vote against a man who spent 39 million on the campaign (yeah he admitted to hitting his wife, but still), and a favorite of the Chicago Democratic Machine, Dan Hynes who also held a State wide elected position and four other candidates. This on top of the fact that his name is so close to Osama. I wouldn't worry about Obama. It might be closer now, but he'll still pull it out.

[Elidor]

5. I can hear it now

Q: What's it like up on The Hill, Mike?

Ditka: It's just like a football game. You gotta hit'em in the mouth on the first play. Make the bastards pay. Never give up. Team work.

He'll be a great draw for the neanderthal wing of the GOP, but the more people see of him, the faster he'll start to stink. God help us if he actually becomes a senator. He's a serious tool. Five minutes of Senator Ditka would be enough to scare anybody into voting democratic.

[buycitgo]

6. president dikka, who will you appoint to the court of St. James?

[LittleApple81]

7. I had never looked at Ditka (no sports person here). He is repulsive.

America adores sacks of testosterone with a square jaw and insulting attitudes. Sorry, but I think it is too embedded in the culture. And that "emotion" that makes them attractive trumps common sense.

I hope Obama, the intelligent, well educated, wonderful guy can overcome voter stupidity.