American politics are rich with characters and stereotypes—Joe the Plumber, Harry and Louise, Nascar dads and hockey moms, to name a few. But one persistent type hasn’t gotten much attention: the Republican football coach.
During the 2008 campaign cycle, college and NFL head coaches (and their wives) contributed a total of $13,286 to John McCain and the Republican National Committee. From that same group, Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee received just $4,600—half of it from Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears and the other half from San Jose State’s Dick Tomey.
In all, 20 coaches active in the 2008 season gave to Republican candidates seeking federal office. Three donated to Democrats. This disparity is even more striking given that, among the individual donors in the ’08 campaign cycle, Mr. Obama outraised Mr. McCain by more than a 5-to-1 margin.
Dennis Prager says on his radio show today: There is probably no area of life where there is as direct a relationship between work and deserved reward than there is in sports. There’s no affirmative action in sports. There’s no compassion in sports. It is entirely merit. There is no other criterion.
Hockey teams tend to be all-white and NBA teams tend to be all-black. And nobody cares. The best players play. Most NBA fans are white and are cheering their brains out for the blacks playing on their team.
This is the reason athletes are conservative. They don’t believe that you hire and fire on compassion, to make up for past deeds. Blacks succeed in the NBA not because they were historically maltreated, but because they play well.
If liberal policies were applied to sports, it would be the end of sports. Why would it be the end of sports but not the end of medicine, of the military?
That is why you have almost no liberal coaches or athletes because they know that almost all liberal policies destroy the institutions they are designed to help.
