Republican Draft Al Effort Appears to Fail

by: huntsu

Sun Jun 17, 2007 at 08:20:14 AM EDT

We're not entirely sure why Wally Edge decided to promote this particular Draft Al project.  The effort is, apparently, simply a blog (on Blogger) of four posts in four months and a new MySpace page with a whopping 10 friends.  Only one of those friends is a human being.

The Draft Leiter effort is now facing a bigger problem: On yesterday's Mets-Yankees pregame show on WFAN radio, Joe Benigno specifically asked the former pitcher if he would be running for political office anytime soon.  Here's a fairly accurate transcription of what Leiter said:

No way.  I'm not willing to do the things that politicians have to do to get elected.  I talk with Mayor Bloomberg, who's a friend of mine, and there's no way I want to do the things he has to do to get elected.

The Democratic Draft Al effort at least has a reluctant but listening candidate -- the Republican Draft Al effort has a candidate that wants nothing to do with them.

UPDATE: Terrible error: Dino didn't found Red Generation, and it's now called Red Jersey.  Since I don't bother to read their site I didn't know the latter, and the former doesn't really matter all that much since he posts a lot there.