'Democrats are shaking in their boots' over the thought of former football coach Mike Ditka running for the Senate in Illinois:
Does Iron Mike know what kind of game he could be getting into?
That is more or less the question a top Washington Republican was planning to ask Mike Ditka.
Virginia Sen. George Allen, head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee and son of a Hall of Fame coach himself, flew into Chicago Tuesday to personally huddle with Ditka, one day after the Bears legend said he was thinking about running for the U.S. Senate.
"Sen. Allen is planning on meeting with Coach Ditka tonight in Chicago to discuss the level of thought that Ditka has put into the race and the implications that that would have on the life that he lives right now," a GOP strategist in Washington said Tuesday.
Which is, of course, the big problem. Can he put up with the annoyances of political life including the dung flies in the media,
the goofs who currently run the Illinois Republican party, and the buffoons in the Senate? But it would be
a breath of fresh air in the fog bound halls of the Capitol:
The 65-year-old football Hall of Famer told WGN that he was just evaluating the idea, but added, "If you're going to tell me I couldn't be a better senator than Ted Kennedy — I could be."
Indeed he could.
