Herschel Walker Is Trying to Pull a Bill Bradley. So, What Do You Think, Bill Bradley?

[MissMillie]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/herschel-walker-is-trying-to-pull-a-bill-bradley-so-what-do-you-think-bill-bradley/ar-AA14JDVY?cvid=1b6b5ef4f13f4bf8bbd95aecf2a731a9

The former senator knows what it means to be elected on sporting fame. He knows what comes next, too.

A famous athlete, running for the U.S. Senate in the state where he was a collegiate legend, despite grumblings that he had moved there just to fulfill his political aspirations.

Today, that’s Herschel Walker in Georgia.

But once, it was Bill Bradley in New Jersey.

“I don’t begrudge anybody using their fame to run for office, whether you’re Ronald Reagan or Jack Kemp or me,” Bradley says, referring to the 40th U.S. president, a former actor, and the Bills star who later served in Congress and was Bob Dole’s running mate in 1996.

Bradley embodied the allure of the athlete turned politician before he ever turned politician. In 1966, when he was 22, Sports Illustrated floated the possibility that he might be president someday. Such speculation increased after New Jersey elected Bradley to the Senate in ’78, but when he finally ran, in 2000, he was soundly defeated by then Vice President Al Gore.

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Back in 2000, Bradley was my first pick. It seemed to me that he was extraordinarily smart, and that he had a way of working with people. He tells some stories in this article that, if true, would indicate that my impression of him was correct.








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[hlthe2b]

1. Bradley was smart as a whip. Herschel is a "Tommy Tubervillle" by comparison.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. oh, no, not even. He's Tubbyville's sphincter lint.

[hlthe2b]

3. speaking only in comparison to Bradley.

[Sneederbunk]

6. No reason to insult Tuberville here.

In comparison with Walker, Tuberville is Socrates.

[hlthe2b]

11. That is hardly saying anything.

[11 Bravo]

12. And Tuberville is dumber than a sack of petrified mouse droppings.

[gratuitous]

8. Now, now, no need to fight about it

Walker and Tuberville are both bone-stupid. But I would say that Herschel Walker is the Ron Johnson of Tommy Tubervilles. (I would have said Louie Gohmert, but he's not a senator . . . thank Cthulu.)

[hlthe2b]

9. I never said Tuberville was dumber than Herschel.

Only that he is in the same class as Herschel. Dumb as a stump and should NEVER be compared to the likes of Bradley. That, I found offensive. And, I actually met Herschel on a few occasions years ago. He was friendly, and athletically talented, but dumb as a stump then. Clearly no improvement today

[rsdsharp]

4. Bradley went to Princeton (after declining 75 athletic scholarships),

and was a Rhodes Scholar. Walker couldn’t spell either.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Bradley is very intelligent and can speak in complete sentences

Walker is NO Bill Bradley

[11 Bravo]

7. Bill Bradley was a Rhodes Scholar who actually DID graduate from college.

Furthermore, he can complete a coherent sentence and has also acknowledged the child he sired.

[hlthe2b]

10. Exactly. Why he is even being brought up in a discussion of Herschel

just leaves me aghast. A brilliant guy and was quite capable of representing his state as Senator. Herschel (and fellow moron, Tuberville) are clearly not.