The Voice of Treason

2006: It’s halftime

Writing by treason on Wednesday, 25 of January , 2006 at 1:33 pm

Funny, I’d just mentioned my Democrat friend who explained to me that Hillary would never win the top job (see 1/23/06). Well, a new poll reveals that Americans aren’t prepared to vote for her, after all. Sorry, I don’t live and die by polls. I say she’ll run and she can win. (There are still unlimited dead people who will vote for the Democratic candidate.)

Well, that Dem friend of mine happened to be at the house last Sunday. I was watching FOX News and he was coming back into the room when he saw John McCain on the screen.

“Oh! My favorite Republican!” He looked at me. “I bet he’s your least favorite, huh?”

“No. Not least favorite. There are others.”

But my friend echoes the sentiments of others in his party. Another recent poll reveals that Dems like McCain. I don’t dislike him - although there’s plenty about his personality to dislike - but I’d prefer it if he didn’t run for president. Would I vote for him? Tough call. If he was running against Hillary? Hmmmm. Let me mull this over.

You know, I’ve tried to like Hillary (I’m generally partial to fellow Chicagoans), but there are too many things about her that make me bristle.

1. She’s shrill.
2. She’s a Socialist.
3. She married Bill.
4. She’s still married to Bill.
5. She doesn’t understand how baseball works.

Hillary called herself a Cubs fan. At Wrigley Field, a Cubs jacket was passed around inside the Cubs dugout to be signed for the visiting Clinton, but players weren’t scrambling for the Sharpie. It was reported that one Cub remarked:

“If her husband lowers my taxes, I’ll sign the jacket.”

Time passed, and this Chicago Cubs fan was running for a Senate seat in New York. Suddenly she was seen wearing a Yankees cap. Smart. A Mets cap would have been an error in judgment. Now I understand Hillary’s thinking. A Cubs fan is a National League fan. To pledge allegiance to the Mets is against all laws of baseball. The ‘69 Cubs were my team, so trust me on this one. If a fan wants to choose an American League team to support, it can’t be the White Sox. For years this was a non-issue because Chicagoans were secure in the knowledge that neither the Cubs nor the Sox would get to the World Series.

That all changed last fall. Clouded by the confusion of actually winning, Chicagoans were torn. Do Cubs fans support the Sox? Bill Murray said yes, because you’re supporting the city of Chicago. Die-hards couldn’t do it. North versus South. Even if they were pleased to see the Sox win (if they can do it, maybe there’s hope for the Northsiders), they weren’t noisy about it. A simple “they played well and deserved the victory” was acceptable. And it was the truth.

So some Cub fans might call themselves Yankees fans. It’s odd, but it happens. Hillary was suddenly a Yankees fan. Her mistake was saying that she’d always been one. It just didn’t seem genuine. You see Rudy Giuliani in a Yankees cap and you don’t question his devotion. Hillary’s another story.

But who cares? Baseball is dead in America. Americans love football. I’ve tried to ignite an interest in the game and I just can’t muster the enthusiasm. It doesn’t make sense to me. Baseball makes sense to me. It’s like geometry and algebra. Geometry makes sense because it’s something I can use. Algebra is foreign, strange, abstract. Like football.

Condi Rice understands football. She loves it. Her dream job is NFL Commissioner. She can talk about the game and she knows who’s who. Senator George Allen knows a little something about the game, too. Advice to Hillary: Find a new cap.

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