CBS evening news says Ditka is going to "sit on the sidelines"

[Not Me]

They claim he has decided not to run...

[geek tragedy]

1. But but but the Drudge Report said he would

and Drudge is ALWAYS right.

[Bluzmann57]

4. Likeb the New York Post is always right.

hahahahaha.

[DenverDem]

2. He knows a losing team when he sees one.

Dikka doesn't want to play a game he can't win.

[Bluzmann57]

3. In my humble opinion

he had about.0001% chance to win anyway. Not all Illinoisans are Bear fans, and Illinois is a hugely Democratic state.

[buycitgo]

6. NBC said no such thing

wonder if CBS has a scoop

sure hope not

they played three very unflattering clips of him on NBC, in one of which he said goddamn and shit

[AP]

7. Even if he ran and lost, just having him in would demean the entire...

...process.

Obama seems like a really decent guy and to have to run against a joke celeberity hot head would have demeaned Obama, ditka, the voters, and the entire process. I'm surprised the Republicans wouldn't run him to do that, even if they knew their party was a sinking ship...you know, just out of contempt to make Obama seem smaller.

[buycitgo]

9. repubs.......decency?

remember their first candidate?

look who's squatting in the WH

come on

[Susang]

10. Illinois Republicans have been demeaning the entire process for years now

Licenses for bribes, widespread indictments and convictions, hell, a lot of the heavy hitters of the Illinois Repub party are in jail these days. I should be surprised that they'd stoop so low as to recruit Ditka, but I'm not.

They want someone who will spend their own money, since they're pretty sure whomever they run against Obama is going to lose anyway, and they don't want to throw money away by running a legitimate candidate against him. Quite a few folks have already declined the honor, if you know what I mean. ;-)

[lovedems]

8. It sure would have been great to watch him spend alot of his own money

to realize people don't love him as much as he thinks they love him!

Damn! That would have been fun!

[ikojo]

11. CHICAGO is relatively Democratic and that

is primarily the city. The suburbs and downstate Illinois are Republican. Ditka might do well with celebrity obsessed Bears fans and downstaters. I think he'd have a chance to win, unfortunately.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

13. Southern Illinois is yellow dog Democrat

Egypt will go with Obama.

[Susang]

5. His wife does not want him to run

She's been pretty vocal about it. I'm guessing she had the final say after all.

[readmylips]

12. My wife does what I say, Ditka says about wife.....

another Pickle wife? No I think Mrs. Ditka wears the pants.

[Tom Kitten]

14. I don't think he'll run.

I think he'll pass.

[demconfive]

15. Maybe he figured...

Being a Neo-con waterboy isn't quite the final legacy he was thinking of.