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).