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Snarkoleptic

(5,997 posts)
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 11:24 PM Sep 2014

Former Chicago Bears coach, now Florida jackass supports Rauner for IL. Gov, yet can't vote for him.

Which sounds a bit like pissing in a pool you don't have to swim in.
Seems like another manifestation of traumatic brain injury in a former NFL star. (he supported carpetbagger, Alan Keyes for senate as well)

“I think he’s a better person for the state of Illinois and people of Illinois than Quinn. Period. That’s it,” Ditka said in a phone interview Monday with Early & Often, the Chicago Sun-Times political portal. “It’s about choices in life. This is my choice. I would choose to vote for [Rauner] if I was living in Illinois. But I don’t.

“It doesn’t matter if I’m qualified or not. What’s ‘qualification’? Is Quinn qualified? I don’t know,” Ditka said. “The other man ran a business, very successful. He made a lot of money, paid a lot of people, helped a lot of people. What’s Quinn’s qualifications? Who’s qualified for what?

“You qualified to interview me? I think so,” he continued. “It’s not too complicated. It’s only common sense.”



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Former Chicago Bears coach, now Florida jackass supports Rauner for IL. Gov, yet can't vote for him. (Original Post) Snarkoleptic Sep 2014 OP
Whatever...Rauner wife is supposedly a staunch Democrat and she supports him too. Stellar Sep 2014 #1
When it comes to Governors, Illinois and Pennsylvania change back and forth all the time yeoman6987 Sep 2014 #2
Yep...the Dems are just as bad as the Pubs in Illinois. Stellar Sep 2014 #3
Ditka Probably Moved To Florida For Tax Purposes..... global1 Sep 2014 #4
Duh coach told espn that ChairmanAgnostic Sep 2014 #5

Stellar

(5,644 posts)
1. Whatever...Rauner wife is supposedly a staunch Democrat and she supports him too.
Mon Sep 8, 2014, 11:58 PM
Sep 2014

With Rauner anybody can come crawling out of the cracks to support him...he's rich enough to buy them all off.

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
2. When it comes to Governors, Illinois and Pennsylvania change back and forth all the time
Tue Sep 9, 2014, 12:06 AM
Sep 2014

Kinda weird in a way.

Stellar

(5,644 posts)
3. Yep...the Dems are just as bad as the Pubs in Illinois.
Tue Sep 9, 2014, 12:28 AM
Sep 2014

George H. Ryan Republican 1999–2003
Rod R. Blagojevich Democratic 2003-2009

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)
5. Duh coach told espn that
Tue Sep 9, 2014, 06:24 AM
Sep 2014

He regretted the Rice decision. "He has lost his earning power."

That will go over well with people.

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