A worthy foe for Obama in Illinois?

As a result of the numerous scandals that the Republican party in Illinois has been devastated by, it seems that noone is willing to play the fall guy and have their political career swamped by the tsunami that is super-candidate Barack Obama. However, people (like me) who have predicted an Obama cakewalk even before Jack Ryan tried to stage every loser Star Trek fan's wet dream in a Parisian sex club (Illinois politics, gotta love it) did not take into account that most powerful of all forces of nature:

Da Coach!

I must admit (with appologies to SNL and Edwin Edwards) that even if Ditka were caught in bed with a live boy AND a dead girl he would still probably only beat Obama by, say, seventy-five percent. And that's factoring in him running as a write-in candidate.

By Tim