Why is every overhyped sports hero (R) and every superbabe (D)?

[Enraged_Ape]

Seriously, look up any over-publicized sports star on www.newsmeat.com (e.g., Karl Malone, Troy Aikman, etc.), and you will see that they donate heavily to the DARK SIDE. Look up any--and I mean ANY--hot woman that you can think of going back 30 years and you will see that they are solidly (with the exception of a very few whackos like Bo Derek) Dem.

(I must admit that there is a wonderful exception in Steelers' Superstar, and my boyhood hero, Franco Harris, who appears to be on the side of the angels!!)

Tonight I looked up Heather Thomas, formerly of ABC's "The Fall Guy" back in the early 80s. This is the way I so fondly remember her:



And here's her political donation resume:

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=CA&last=Thomas&first=Heather

What is with this? This can't be a testosterone-estrogen thing. After all, Tim Robbins, George Clooney, Harrison Ford, Paul Newman, Alec Baldwin, John Cusack, and a host of other manly men appear to be on our side as well, so what gives?

[Mr. Blonde]

1. Troy Aikman is from

an oil town if that explains anything.

[LTR]

2. DAMN! She's nearly bankrolled the DNC!

Never realized she had so much money.

The cool thing is she also donated to Wellstone.

[Enraged_Ape]

6. Heather Thomas is a Goddess in every sense of the word

Seriously, if they were to start a Heather Thomas religion, I would be a most willing High Priest. She is nigh to perfection.

[JVS]

3. Franco Harris held me when I was a baby!

I have been in his great arms!

[Tummler]

4. Michael Jordan supported Bill Bradley's campaign

Plenty of athletes, particularly African-Americans in the NBA, support Democrats. It's just the right-wingers who get all the press.

[Guy Fawkes]

5. Steroids kill brain cells? But seriously...

Maybe team sports encourage group thinking. Democracy encourages *free* thinking. Thus, sports players are scared of being democrats.

Supermodels are free thinkers. Thus, they enjoy democracy. They like to think for themselves.


(end satire)

[delete_bush]

7. Not all sports are team sports, though

there's golf with the sterotypical but probably real tilt to the repubs, tennis, and the lesser ones such as billiards, poker, etc.

[Bombtrack]

8. It doesn't mean that hot chicks are all liberal and not conservative

it shows that liberal hot chicks are more likely to donate to political campaigns. Although believe me, I wish liberalism=hotness was always the case.