OT: Tommy Tuberville wins AL Senate primary
Link: https://nypost.com/2020/07/14/tommy-tuberville-beats-jeff-sessions-in-alabama-senate-primary/amp/
So Tommy Tuberville (former head football coach at Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas Tech, and Cincinnati) has won the Alabama Republican Senate primary and will stand for election in the fall (beating Jeff Sessions in the process). Political topic, I know (Tuberville was apparently supported by Trump over Sessions), yet I post this because of the interesting career path and connection to CFB.
If elected (not a guarantee, but very probably considering the state), let's hope he has better results than his last few football stints (his Texas Tech and Cincinnati teams were generally not great... although he did have a 13-0 season at Auburn in 2004 along with a winning record against Alabama).
For the sake of America let’s hope it goes better than his hedge fund
Incredible. And the voters picked Tuberville over Sessions after that mess?
Alabama.
Sounds like he has all the necessary qualities of being a politician already.
Let the feces slinging between Michigan fans begin! ?
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make this the daily covid thread, too. let all the joyful camaraderie of the covid threads show forth in this one, and the rest of the threads can be normal.
That is absolutely NOT how this works man.
Your plea went over well,
worth a shot to try and contain the poison of the political threads. wish they would stop, or at least greatly diminish in number and rancor.
XM, I appreciate your truth.
I am getting really sick of COVID/Mask etc topics. I love reading the board, but this is getting so annoying. Everyone either agrees or persecutes the ones they don't agree with. I miss the sports topics and the fun topics. Covid topics aren't fun anymore (not sure if they ever were).
OK then - I hope his primary's vote count was reported with more integrity than were Florida's covid testing results.
Of course, we all know what Washington really needs right now is some of the fine, upstanding ethics practiced by those in SEC football.
Forgot the American Athletic Conference and the Big 12.
In the SEC, ethics just means more...
Can't spell ethics without s e c.
Reminds me a couple years back when Nick Saban got the third place votes in an Alabama election.
Did you mean to say "Lou" Saban?
Did you mean to say "Sweet Looooouuuuuu" Saban?
Who's Lou?!?!
I don't know how an adult lets himself be called Tommy.
is that akin to a former president who went by the name of Jimmy?
/no politics
ask Tommy Jarvis(Friday the 13th reference)
Sweet eight lb, six oz, newborn infant Jesus!
In the land of Ricky Bobby this is not a character flaw.
This is certainly not a stretch to believe. I mean, Tuberville had almost half of Alabama's votes for just beating Alabama on the football field. Add in the Trump endorsement, along with the vile that Trump has been throwing at Sessions for years, and this is as close to a no-brainer as one can get in the state of Alabama.
I honestly don't know why anyone would be surprised in the least about this.
I wouldn't say it was a surprise he won this particular primary. I think it is more surprising that a CFB coach, who has worked at many high profile schools with varying degrees of success, would want to jump into politics now (at this stage of life and starting off at the National Senate level). Not completely unprecedented, but certainly not common.
I'm not surprised, just depressed that this is where we are politically in this country where a former football coach and hedge fund fraudster is now in position to be a senator
Heh. Skeletons in politicians' closets is far from a new thing. We've been here politically for decades.
Should be noted that he lost Tuscaloosa. Bama fans remember.
Is half of alabama actually auburn fans? I thought it was like 80/20 Tide.
The fuck is wrong with this country? I don't care what party you support, a former football coach with zero relevant education or experience should not be a U.S. senator. Christ almighty.
Umm, the well educated, relevently experienced millionaires that currently make up the vast majority of representatives and senators haven't been doing such a great job. So what 'relevant' education or experience do you advocate?
The solution to poor representation isn't lowering the bar on qualifications. I figured that was obvious, but I guess not.
If you go to a doctor and he does a poor job treating your ailment, the answer isn't to hire a mechanic.
John McCain opened that door with Sarah Palin. Qualified to be governor of Alaska? Sure. Qualified to be president if John McCain went down? Whatever our politics, we should demand that a candidate be well-informed about the world, and not just their own small world view and backyard. If a body in Washington has to be partisan, let it be congress. They can duke it out. But a president should be able to reach across the aisle. Have we had a lot of those? No, but we should.
The door was opened by Ronald Reagan
Reagan was a governor for eight years. He had more governance experience than our last three Presidents.
I'm having trouble following the door-opening analogy, but I think you mean George H. W. Bush picking Dan Quayle. Say what you will about his politics, senior Bush was highly qualified to be VP. Quayle wasn't qualified to compete in a grade school spelling bee.
McCain was his own worst enemy with that choice. I'm amazed he didn't do a better job vetting that dingbat. A decent record as governor of Alaska, a state with a yearly oil stipend to ALL of it's drug and alcohol addicted citizens, has nothing in common with running an entire country. But she is far from the first 'unqualified' VP candidate. Dan Quayle comes to mind...
And yes, a President MUST be able - and willing - to hold hands with both sides of the aisle. The last one I can recall that did so willingly was Bill Clinton (I fully understand that this is an opinion, and is open for legit debate).
clinton was forced to "hold hands" after the dems lost the house for the first time in almost 50 years.
I agree wholeheartedly. Clinton was great at that. I wasn't a fan of his at the time, but it's tough to argue against that political strength. Sarah Palin was an embarrassment to John McCain's career. I didn't agree with a lot of his politics, but he was principled and I respected him. She was an unprincipled choice, more about personality and appeal than about real qualifications. I think about Nikki Haley, whom I loathe, but she's very qualified to be either Pres or VP.
McCain pulled that ticket down. The only way he was even sniffing the race was because of Palin.
Now that's funny!
I mean sure, Jim Harbaugh has 25 years of coaching experience, a Pro Bowl ring, and won NFL coach of the year honors. But based on his performance against Ohio State, isn't it time we let an outsider with no experience have a shot?
So how would you feel if let's say a real estate guy who does his own reality shows wants to be a Senator, no I mean, Vice President, no wait better yet President???
Just as much as a former comedian becoming a senator. Or a singer be coming a congressman. Or an actor becoming governor. Or an actor becoming a congressman. Or a professional wrestler becoming a governor. Or becoming a senator because you were married to a previous president. Or a real estate tycoon becoming president. Or an NBA star becoming a senator. Or someone just with the right last name becoming senator. Or a doctor be coming senator.
We could make an entire thread about prominent politicians that have been elected (from both major parties as well as the larger independent parties) who had little to no "proper" qualifications and experience to be in their positions.
God Bless America...
Yep. It's certainly true that no party has a monopoly on electing unqualified people to federal office.
There are no more truer words than this...
That wrestler was a frogman (US Navy Seal) too.
Franken was a great senator. The way he was railroaded was a huge mistake.
Groping women is okay? Really? I don't care your political persuasion, that guy is a creep.