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Posted on 07/20/2005 6:03:19 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
After weeks of cajoling from high-ranking Democrats — including former President Bill Clinton — former football star Heath Shuler announced Monday that he would challenge Rep. Charles Taylor (R-N.C.) next year.
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That would make this board considerably more boring.
LOLOL - He was also a Tony Mandarich before Tony Mandarich.
Well, if Pryce is anywhere near as old as I am she's either crazy or nuts. The republicans were out in the cold so long we grew fur.
I can understand their concern in Ohio, with those disasters as Gov and Senators. But what is his E-mail based on? I would imagine some over-emphasis (IMHO) on this most recent special election.
I don't buy the nationwide tilt against the GOP. Too early to say one way or the other for '06, and GOP fundraising has not shown any signs of weakness.
His website doesn't say beans about where he stands on anything.
Do campaign finace laws allow him to once again launder his calls via a U.Tenn. athletic dept calling card?
Him and his dad both are.
I wished the GOP played up the athletes who are republicans or who endorse them, the left plays up every 2 bit fleabag or hollywood star, it seems like the GOP goes out of its way to avoid any kind of celebrity including athletes.
Sidenote" Steve Young is also republican.
Leaf was a jerk.
he showed up to the combines fat and out of shape.
I've had friends who met him who said he was just and out and out ass.
I respect what he did for his former coach, and he is starting to change now, but everyone in the chargers organization told Beathard not to pick leaf (he also treated everyone around him like crap).
He will go down as possibly one of the 3 worst picks in history.
I thought it was the nickname for the "11 types" pf passes.
I.E. "the tree" or simply put "making all the different types of passes".
There was a story that Shuler couldn't do it with a pro-football, but looked good on some throws and horrible on others but made up for it with with "intangables".
I'll give him credit though, he played hard, he wasn't a jerk, and I've always read and heard that he was a good teamate.
I don't even think it said the word demorat on his site.
He'll probably run as and out and out populist, with a social conservative swig, and some populists economic shots and wrap up it all up in that folksy good ole boy type of slow talk with heavy doses of the word "values".
I also know Mike Ditka is VERY conservative.
Funny you should mention him.
I only met him once (autograph), he seems kind of libertarian but with old school values.
I do not qualify, but he does not seem to like seeing kids showing up for autographs on school days.
I wish he would have ran for office, but his personality is way to honest and that would have hurt him in any election.
But I do promise, I will go to his restaurant.....and I do now know what a real "Chicago" hot dog is.....(I'm a new yorker, we are quite different on that....and pizza, but I still think I'm right about that part).
My only disagreements with him were cultural, but he is a good man, and he has that "Tom Coburn" kind of personality, I would love to see him run.
And like Tom Osbourne, nothing would ever stick to him (for the record......regardless of what he told me, and I hold no grudge......I can too place ketchup on a Chicago dog, unless you can give me a better recipe that goes without).
If you are going to mention Shuler and star in the same sentence you'd better be talking astronomy.
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