Posted on 07/20/2005 6:03:19 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
I've known about Aikman and Staubach, and it's a very good probability that Warner is a Republican, but where do you get your info on the other quarterbacks? Just curious.
"Taylor needs to retire. Surely there must be some Republican with name ID who can hold the seat for us."
Is the heathen old enough to vote?
I heard Elway was a Republican but I had not seen it confirmed anywhere.
Elway and Young are well known. The others donated to Bush. I believe Favre was on recordings, but wasn't sure about that.
heath's last good day on the field was as a quarterback at Tennessee. how is that going to help him in NC?
Eh, I'm not worried yet. 10% may not be a huge landslide, but that's a lot for a D to make up against an incumbent.
NC hasn't exactly moved leftwards recently. Other then Easly, it keeps going R harder and harder. Look at Bush's 13% win and Burr's come from behind win.
When an athlete doesn't meets certain levels of mental and/or scholarly apptitude, he is said to have failed the "Shuler Test".
The problem isn't the district, the problem is the incumbent himself.
What's wrong with the incumbent? Did he screw an aid or sell a car for half a million dollars to a lobbyist?
Bobby Beathard was a gambler who signed a lot of unknown guys with strong athletic ability and gambled that they would turn into real NFL players. Some of them did (like Stan Humphries) but most of them never developed for the Chargers. He had better luck at Washington.
I still fondly remember the pre-draft debate between picking Drew Bledsoe or Rick Mirer -- the beginning of the Patriots' resurgence to greatness.
Charlie Taylor was in a business arrangement with two men convicted of bank fraud. He is also a business partner with a Russian businessman who was once a General in the KGB.
At best, it looks bad. And this is not the first time Taylor has faced controversy regarding his financial dealings.
Still, Taylor has had "controversy" before and just keeps winning. Patsy Keever was supposed to be a great candidate for the Democrats last year and Taylor won by 10, again. Somewhat reminiscent of John Hostettler in Indiana.
Actually it was the Redskins. He was already a bust long before he got to the Saints.
Heath Shuler was a quite skilled quarterback in college. During workouts for pro teams, I believe he always used his own football.
When he got to Washington, it seems his hands were a bit too small for the larger Pro football, and the ball would slip out of his hands.
I had always thought the "Shuler test" meant giving the guy a pro football to throw. I hadn't heard it had anything to do with mental ability.
So maybe my story is the apocryphal one.
Meanwhile, Taylor is the congressman who "tried" to vote no on CAFTA but says his vote failed due to an "glitch in the electronic voting".
In what has to be a rather hilarious irony, none of the democrats seems to believe that electronic voting could possible go wrong.
Isn't that the Charles Taylor from Liberia though? I keep getting e-mails from his wife, saying that she's got $10 million or more in a Nigerian bank account and if only I'd give her my account number, she could transfer it there and I could keep 25% of it....
"And while there are tentative signs that a playing field tilted against Republicans may be developing nationwide, the evidence and logic behind a much more significant threat for Republicans in Ohio is very strong. Pryce was quoted Monday in the Columbus Dispatch, speaking to the paper's editorial board saying, 'The political situation for Republicans both in Washington and especially in Ohio is just dreadful,' going on to say that, 'in my short political life, I've never seen it so dire.' "
Bush carried the Pryce district by about 1%. Columbus has trended quite decisively and rapidly to the Dems.
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