And You Used to Laugh at Me.....

How many times have I been so enamored with Tom Brady that I have told you guys I would vote for him when he runs for president? That Tom Brady has that leadership ability and would go into politics and that he'd have my vote? Remember that you heard it from me when it actually happens.

Tom Brady on the cover of GQ magazine has been the talk of the town for the last couple of days. The photo shoot has him posing as a cowboy. The cover, with him on it, poses the question, "The best there ever was?" One of the pictures is Brady with a goat. The significance of the goat? G.O.A.T. (Greatest Of All Time). His teammates didn't let him get away with it though. Koppen and Light got copies of the GQ cover and taped them to the back of their jerseys so Brady had to look at himself on the covers for the whole practice.

Getting into the article, and the president thing here are some excerpts: (I told you so!)

"Indeed, his ease in the spotlight—the way he actually draws strength from pressure—is what has prompted speculation that he might run for U.S. Senate someday. "As a Patriots fan, I don't want Tom Brady running for office anytime soon because I want him to be our quarterback," says Bob Shrum, who was the chief strategist on John Kerry's presidential campaign. "But everyone in Washington got excited when Brady said he might be interested in politics someday. It wouldn't be automatic for him, but I'll tell you, if I was in the Massachusetts Republican Party, the shape it's in, I'd go after him." "

"Brady professes to be "intrigued" by the prospect of running for office and hedgingly avers that "if the opportunity comes, hopefully, I'll be ready to kinda delve into that." Last year, wittingly or not, he did kinda delve into that, sitting in Laura Bush's box during President Bush's State of the Union address, nestled between Joyce Rumsfeld and Alma Powell in what many observers took to be a tacit endorsement of the incumbent presidential ticket. A Bush staff member e-mailed the Drudge Report to crow, "It was a touchdown from Kerry's own 40-yard-line!"Brady insists his appearance was apolitical. "I was invited," he says. "I thought, 'What an honor. I'm an American. I'm getting to sit with the first lady of the United States at the State of the Union.' I thought it was one of the coolest things I've ever done." "

"Although he says he has yet to sort out his party affiliation, Brady does keep making little sorties into the political arena. While in Washington for the White House Correspondents' dinner in May, he taped a segment for ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos in which he said, "I enjoy the greater good, I think, of what this country has to offer.... The things that I feel are fulfilling for me are beyond, you know, throwing a football. It's making influence in people's lives. And if that's politics, that's politics." "

So mark me down for one vote for Brady for President in what, 2028? 2032?