If a butterfly flaps its wings..

[VaticanAssassin]

In 2004, Mike Ditka mulled a run for Illinois's vacant senate seat. The prohibitive favorite was state senator Barack Obama, and the Republicans couldn't find someone to go against him. Committee chair George Allen, son of the hall of fame coach, met with Ditka and urged him to run. Ditka considered it, but eventually declined, citing his busy schedule. It still eats away at him to this day.

As noted by the Atlantic Wire, Ditka spoke at the opening of a North Dakota oil facility last week. He said not stopping Obama's rise to power remains his greatest regret:

"Biggest mistake I've ever made," Ditka said. "Not that I would have won, but I probably would have and he wouldn't be in the White House."
I'm not saying someone should write a sequel to The Man in the High Castle set in an alternate universe where Mike Ditka became president, but I'm totally saying it.

http://deadspin.com/mike-ditkas-big...ource=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

[anchoredinocean]

yeah it's too bad you're too illiterate to write it. i'm sure it'd be a real hit with the Turner Diaries crowd.

fucking stooge.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Conservatives sure do talk a good game, but when the going gets tough, they fold faster than Superman on laundry day.

Thanks for sharing yet another example of the typical conservative lack of intestinal fortitude.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

yeah it's too bad you're too illiterate to write it. i'm sure it'd be a real hit with the Turner Diaries crowd.

fucking stooge.

Conservatives sure do talk a good game, but when the going gets tough, they fold faster than Superman on laundry day.

Thanks for sharing yet another example of the typical conservative lack of intestinal fortitude.

 

[KingOrfeo]

"Biggest mistake I've ever made," Ditka said. "Not that I would have won, but I probably would have and he wouldn't be in the White House."
I'm not saying someone should write a sequel to The Man in the High Castle set in an alternate universe where Mike Ditka became president, but I'm totally saying it.

Ditka is only saying he could have become a senator. But POTUS? Maybe some time after Jesse Ventura's second term.

 

[honeylick]

guess he had bigger priorities in '04.

i wish more people thought/spoke about the 'go-forward' instead of a constant stream of what-if's and hindsight.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Ditka is only saying he could have become a senator. But POTUS? Maybe some time after Jesse Ventura's second term.

No. Dikta is saying if he became state senator, Obama probably would not have become president. I would probably agree with that. Would he have won? No idea. But he is the Dikta and it is Chicago. The rest is just Deadspin.

 

[anchoredinocean]

No. Dikta is saying if he became state senator, Obama probably would not have become president. I would probably agree with that. Would he have won? No idea. But he is the Dikta and it is Chicago. The rest is just Deadspin.

i see you must have snuck into daddies liquor cabinet. you're gonna get a spanking!