Tom Brady for Senate?

Elizabeth Warren has shown some weakness in the polls ahead of her 2018 re-elect. But you can’t beat somebody with nobody. So who’s going to beat her?

Probably not the outspoken former Red Sox hurler Curt Schilling, who now spends his days at the Breitbart website. Schilling has been talking about making a run since before the 2016 election.

Political columnist Peter Lucas, writing today in the Lowell Sun in Massachusetts, wants Bay State Republicans to start thinking touchdown pass instead of strikeout.

So — Tom Brady for Senate, anyone?

After all, if the famous quarterback of the New England Patriots is going to get grief for being President Donald Trump’s friend, or for a visit to the White House, then he should at least make the most of it.

Brady should challenge hard left Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is running for re-election in 2018, defeat her, and get to Washington. After 17 years of playing for the Patriots and accumulating five Super Bowl rings, he may be looking for a change. It is assumed Brady votes Republican.

The problem with Schilling? “[T]he fiery and outspoken conservative, who is quick to shoot from the lip, is almost too much like Trump,” Lucas writes. “And who needs two Trumps in Washington when it can hardly deal with one?

It goes without saying that stranger things have been tried. And worked.

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