Should Bill Bellichek Be The Next DNC Chairman

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Poll question: Should Bill Bellichek Be The Next DNC Chairman

He has a track record of success and a series of big wins under his belt...


Can anyone truly say with a straight face that any of the other candidates have a track record of success equal to Mr. Bellichek's....

[Ninga]

1. Why would a Republician want to be the head of the DNC??

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I Know Tom Brady Is A Pug...

but is Bellichek too?

[NewJeffCT]

4. having briefly covered sports before...

I've found that basketball coaches tend towards being Democrats, while football coaches trend Repub... obviously, there are exceptions to every rule (Bobby Knight in hoops).

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. I Saw Digger Phelps From Notre Dame Give A Speech In Orlando, Florida

and later in the rest room I heard a buch of knuckleheads criticize Digger for being a "liberal"


I know Phil Jackson is a Dem...

[NewJeffCT]

10. well, some big time coaches are Democrats

Jim Calhoun at UConn could probably win the governorship of CT in a cakewalk if he ever ran for office; same with Dean Smith, former UNC coach (though, Dean is a bit old now)... both are old time liberal Democrats.

I think the difference is a lot of the top basketball coaches have to be open-minded, as the top basketball players are often from poor, inner city minority neighborhoods. Again, there are plenty of exceptions.

However, football is more of a small town & small city sport with many top players coming from a more middle class background. You don't hear about top high school football players coming from New York City...

[KamaAina]

17. Brady? A Pug? Then why was he planning to host a Kerry fundraiser?

You know it's playoff time when this "Brady-is-a-Pug" stuff comes up again...

http://www.absolutebrady.com/Archive/April2002.html

(scroll down to the entry for April 23, 2002)

April 23,2002
Super Bowl QB Won't Stump For Kerry
(EVOTE.COM) - The Boston Herald reports Tuesday that Senator John Kerry (D-MA) tried unsuccessfully to schedule a June fundraising event featuring Super Bowl quarterback Tom Brady. According to the report, the Herald had reported March 31 that Brady was planning to host the June 21 fundraiser -- But two days later, Brady and the rest of Patriots would go to meet President Bush at the White House -- and two days after that, he withdrew from the fundraiser. The Herald piece speculates that Brady may have been unaware that Kerry is a likely '04 challenger against President Bush. The piece also cites an earlier U.S. News and World Report article about how both parties have been courting Brady, and how he wants "all the politicians to shut up and stop making it sound as if he likes any of them." For his part, Kerry did finally pick up a last-minute Republican challenger this week after months of heavy fundraising that has done little to dampen speculation about a presidential bid. 40-year old history teacher Anthony Kandel reportedly plans to make his first bid for elected office against the veteran Senator.

Of course, the Herald (RW Murdoch cat box liner) piece would never, ever speculate that the Bush** White House might have pressured Brady into dropping the event, because it would have looked bad so close to the Pats' (first) White House visit...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. If My Mother Was A Republican I'd Call Her A Pug Too...

That article sure makes his politics look ambiguous...

And wasn't he prominently seated at one of Bush's State Of The Union addresses...


by the way why would I say Brady is a Pug to denigrade the Patriots when I started a thread that said Bill Bellichick should be the DNC leader...

[KamaAina]

20. Heck, my brand-new stepfather is a repuke

his DU name (in my posts) is "Repuke Man" :-)

That article sure makes his politics look ambiguous...

I'll take ambiguous over full-fledged Pug/repuke any day, especially when so many other QBs are full-fledged repukes: Peyton Manning (humiliated by Brady yet again), Elway, Young, Warner (benched for Manning's brother), even Jack Kemp!

Come to think of it, Belichick's skill set reminds me of that of a certain KKKarl Rove (only without the crude conservatism). Perhaps he should have served as Kerry's strategist? I'd just love to see repukes as demoralized as Manning, Roethlisberger et al.

[KamaAina]

21. How about this? ESPN Page 2 agrees with me!

So help me Skinner, I had not read this piece when I made the above post:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=murphy/050124

By Brian Murphy
Special to Page 2

The Hangover is happy.

After 20 weeks of Meat Sweats, pop-soda debates, Al Davis' haircuts and envious admiration of Ed Hochuli's pipes, we have a Super Bowl worthy of Hangover Nation.

We have the New England Patriots, from America's New City of Champions, the most fundamentally-sound, team-oriented, disciplined, focused group you'll ever see in the NFL. They will bloodlessly destroy you. They have the killer instinct and game plan commonly found in campaigns run by Karl Rove.

And again DU anticipates life...

[cali]

6. He's a democrat

at least according to a long post about him I just read over at kos. Wesleyan grad in English Lit and Economics. Supported Kerry.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. That's The Ticket Then...

I take back all the negative things I said about him...

[sniffa]

8. i was gonna say

beLichek was a kerry guy (and i beLieve a Long time dem) - he does a shitLoad of charity work in the inner city too.

i'm not sure about brady being a pub either (yeah, i know of SOTU appearance).

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. That's Awesome

A Dem stands on top of the football world because you know most coachs are Pugs...


Now I am torn on who to root for in the SB...


I want Donovan McNabb to win to discredit Rush for dissing him...

[NewJeffCT]

11. Wesleyan doesn't produce too many conservatives

having grown up 10-15 minutes from Wesleyan, it is known as a bastion of liberalness...

[pf99]

3. Never!!!!

Can stand him dating back to his days in Cleveland.

[dr.strangelove]

12. Bill is a liberal

At least he was when he was with the Giants. I saw him at a fundraiser for Cuomo in the late 80s - early 90s when he was with the Giants. (I can't remember if it was a Governor of NY fundraiser or a DNC fundraiser. I think it was at the Hilton by Radio City Music Hall. I didn't get to talk with him (I was a volunteer and we were told not to bother the donors, I wish I ignored that rule). He was talking with several people about Cuomo as POTUS. I don't recall any specifics, but he was clearly of a liberal viewpoint. I have not heard his name in the local papers since he moved to Mass. I am sure some DUer knows, or can find out if he did anything for Kerry.

[sniffa]

13. what jim brown thinks of him

paraphrasing, "he's the onLy white person i know that i can truLy say understands the experience of the african american"

- in response to the time he put in with the LocaL kids when he was in cLeveLand.

[dr.strangelove]

14. That is maybe the best compliment I have ever heard paid to a coach

Maybe that is why he is able to get his teams to gel so well. Racial tension in the locker room is found in most sports. The Patriots have seemed to avoid these issues. Anyway, even if I'm off base, getting a compliment from Jim Brown like that is something to be proud of.

[Beetwasher]

15. Yup, Definitely Not Just A Dem, But A Cuomo/Liberal Dem

You are spot on...

Though I've never been a fan of any team he's coached, I have always like him as a person and I do think he's one of the best coaches ever. Every interview I've ever seen of him, he always comes across as a very sincere and well-adjusted, super-intelligent person.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

16. I Like Him Since I Learned He's A Democrat

eom

[UrbScotty]

19. HE'S A NEW ENGLAND LIBERAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why should I vote for him?

[sparky_in_ma]

22. Yup, Bill can make any group work together

Rove is an amateur compared to Bill:thumbsup: