Schilling for McCain In New Hampshire

Certainly no campaign is immune to the celebrity factor, but at least John McCain, unlike Mike Huckabee, went out and found one relevant to this millennium to work the crowd out in New Hampshire.

So as McCain sees glimmers of hope for a resurgence in New Hampshire, there are few better symbols of inspiration for him to call on than Curt Schilling, a key member of the Boston Red Sox's unprecedented 2004 comeback from a 3-0 hole against the New York Yankees.

Schilling, who knows McCain from his days playing for the Arizona Diamondbacks, joined him at a prep school here last night to praise the Republican senator before a packed auditorium. Endorsements carry only so much weight in politics, and ones by sports figures probably even less than others, but the Red Sox brand is not a bad one for a New Hampshire candidate to be associated with these days, and at the very least, Schilling's presence probably drew an extra hundred or two residents to see McCain -- most of them even over voting age.

Of course, McCain is about to reach his own personal 86-year drought without reaching the White House, so having a Red Sox pitcher join him on that quest seems apt.

This was my favorite comment on Schilling's blog post endorsing McCain.

Why does everybody kiss up to this guy as far as his political intelligence goes? All he knows how to do is throw a baseball. He isn’t always good at that.