Former Redskin Clint Didier on a Mission to Save America
by Kevin Ewoldt on Jun 4, 2010 9:14 AM EDT
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When I called Clint out of the blue last night, he was on his farm fields moving hay and alfalfa that had got blown around from a rain they got. Clint didn't hesitate for a second to continue the interview. For the youngters, Clint Didier was a 12th round draft pick by the Redskins in 1981. He played 7 years for the Redskins as TE and was on two of the Super Bowl winning teams. He currently lives in the state of Washington where he is running for Senate (and currently winning).
In Part 1, we'll cover what motivated Clint to run for Senate and how certain coaches including Joe Bugel and Joe Gibbs helped make him who he is today. In Part 2, we'll get into Russ Grimm.
What was your deciding moment to make a run for the Senate?
Didier: When I see our kids and grand-kids' freedom being jeopardized by an over-intrusive government. They want to keep taking away our rights and individual liberties.We've gotten away from the basics...the Constitution.
How are things going with the polls? The election is August, 17th, right?
Didier: Yes, August 17th. Things are going well. The GOP has finally got their establishment candidate. Dino Rossi. He has now entered the race. One week into it. That's fine and dandy. Joe Gibbs always told us competition brings out the best in everyone.
Anything Joe Bugel taught you that you'd bring to Washington? I was thinking we could make Buges head of the Border Control.
Didier: (laughing) Well, Bugel is the one that gave me my thick skin. He was one hard-nosed coach. He was pretty tough on me as a player, but it was only because he knew the potential was there and he wanted every ounce of it. And that's what I respect about Joe Bugel.
Heath Shuler of course is a former Redskin, arguably the worst of all-time, it would make for some great journalism if you two cross paths in the Capitol hallways.
Didier: Yea, that would. I've never gotten to meet Heath. I'd be really interested in sitting down with him for a cup of coffee and talking about the current state of affairs in this country of ours and where it's gotta go to get resolved. I think all we need to do is go back and look at some game tapes. Probably the best one would be Ronald Reagan coming away from the Jimmy Carter debacle. Or maybe it was JFK coming away from that mess he inherited. Or maybe Harding back in the roaring 20s. What did they do [in times of trouble]?...They lowered tax rates. They gave incentives to businesses to create and risk. For businesses to grow and create jobs. The opposite is being done by this Administration. They're suppressing the American spirit and they're not allowing anybody to want to take the gamble and create a business right now. That's what we got to change.
(Towards the end of our conversation, I congratulated Clint for his recent State Championship win coaching High School football)
Did you have the 50-gut and 70-chip in your offense?
Didier: Oh yea. I ran the Joe Gibbs 1-back offense. I called Jumbo - that's our short-yardage and goal-line where we run 70-chip. 50-70 chip, 50-70 lead, we got play-action - everything we ran with the Redskins. We went to 4 state championships in 9 years with that same stuff. We went to 6 semis, 7 quarters and every year we were in the playoffs with Joe Gibbs' 1-back offense.
I was told by a lot of people it's too complicated. These kids can't learn it. I said, "Do you want to bet?" We don't give our kids of this Nation enough credit. They are so smart and they are being starved of an educational process. We have got to get competition back into our school systems big time. And that means we got to get rid of the Department of Education and give it back to the States and there's a 10th amendment. And hopefully they'll give it back to the Districts and create competition, and then we'll be back to number one. We're 33rd today. We were [ranked] 7th when Ronald Reagan was President...today, 33rd in the world. It's sad.
More info on Clint and his campaign at clintdidier.org. You can also follow him via twitter @clintdidier and his Facebook.
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Not sure if this helps or hurts Clint...
But Sarah Palin endorsed Didier. Up in that parts it probably helps substantially.
Hogs Haven. On Twitter. And Facebook.
Lately she's batting around .500 in endorsements.
Godspeed, Tea Partiers, thank you for splitting the Republican Party.
"By far the worst performers on the team are in the front office." – Sally Jenkins
Polls show him behind
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2010/senate/2010_washington_senate_race.html
He probably won’t beat Rossi in the primary, who is the establishment pick by the Reps. One guy stepped aside (Benton) and endorsed Rossi.
My god this man is ignorant.
They lowered tax rates. They gave incentives to businesses to create and risk. For businesses to grow and create jobs. The opposite is being done by this Administration. They’re suppressing the American spirit and they’re not allowing anybody to want to take the gamble and create a business right now. That’s what we got to change.
"By far the worst performers on the team are in the front office." – Sally Jenkins
Calm it down...
Former Redskin…SAME TEAM SAME TEAM…
Who is this punk smutsboy1…Nancy Pelosi? lol
Two party Politics don’t work. Maybe the Redskins have been so soft because they were too liberal cough LEFT cough.
But then again the more I read maybe he is ignorant……i mean JFK didn’t come away from mess he inherited, there were only 10,000 men in Vietnam training soldiers…before that Blessed bullet went through his skull the number jumped ten fold. Carter then JFK in order of worst presidents ever!
this probably wasn't a good topic to put on here kevin
football is one thing, but when you bring politics/religion into it, it just doesn’t go right.
SpottieOttieDopaliscious
Politics
Yea, it was never meant to be a political discussion. He’s a Redskin, he’s entitled to his beliefs like all of us…
The next post when he talks about Grimm and Donny Warren will end any banter.
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by Kevin Ewoldt on Jun 4, 2010 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
well when you post on facebook “what he is doing for america is inspiring to say the least” and “vote for this man” – kinda makes it sound like you endorse him and want to the discussion to get political
Posting something on Facebook and here is completely different
There’s no discussion there and these articles feed to tens of thousands of people.
I’ll elaborate…what I meant by the “inspiring” part was how motivated he was. I’m not going to pretend I know anything about politics, which is why I always steer away from those conversations. But how he talked about how much he wanted to fight for what was right and for his kids…the never give up. Guess you had to hear it, but it was genuine the drive and passion. It was patriotic. Obama had moments like that in his campaign. Again, politics is like Redskins Park….we only know what little information gets out…so I don’t go there. But with the sports, it’s fun guessing.
The ‘vote for this man!’ line was just a quick joke. He lives in Washington state, no one can vote for him anyway.
Hogs Haven. On Twitter. And Facebook.
Forestvillian can! haha
SpottieOttieDopaliscious
You can't vote for or against him
But if people choose they can donate to their opposition candidate of choice. Just saying.
by BayAreaBullet on Jun 4, 2010 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions
ehh I understand why Kevin put it up
Even though I find Didier absolutely loathsome and hope he loses horribly. The dude is a loathsome hypocrite when it comes to Govt. largesse.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011890132_didier18m.html
by BayAreaBullet on Jun 4, 2010 12:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Hmmm....not really in line with his statements about competition...or how big and bad government is...
Let’s just move along to the Donny Warren and Russ Grimm part of the chat.
Didier’s 1,000-acre Pasco farm has received price-support payments for wheat, corn and barley, reimbursement for crops destroyed by hail, and “conservation subsidies” to replace steel irrigation pipes with plastic. His annual take has ranged from $2,700 to $65,000, according to EWG, a nonprofit organization critical of the farm-subsidy program.
Reached by phone Monday as he worked an alfalfa field, Didier acknowledged receiving federal subsidies, but said he favors weaning farms off such payments. (He disputed the amount he has received, pegging it at no more than $140,000.)
Didier said farmers pretty much have to participate in the subsidy program or be at a competitive disadvantage. “If your neighbor has an advantage he is in the position to buy the next farm up for sale,” he said.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Not sure about his political views
but he’s a really nice dude. Met him at a restaurant in Herndon called the Scoreboard back in the early 90’s. It was owned by Rick “Doc” Walker. My dad and I used to go there every Friday for dinner, before my high school football games, and one night it was so packed there was an hour wait. Didier and his wife were nice enough to let us sit at there table cause he heard us saying we had to be somewhere in an hour. Great guy and a hell of a tight end!
That's cool, did you get to talk to him or did you not want to bother him?
"By far the worst performers on the team are in the front office." – Sally Jenkins
We tried not to bother him
but I couldn’t resist asking him what it was like to score 35 points in one quarter in the SB when they whooped the Broncos, especially since he scored the final touchdown in that quarter. All he said was “unbelievable”. =) I got his autograph on a napkin too, but I have no clue where it is. Probably lost it in all the moves since then.
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Poor Clint. More to the point, poor state of Washington.
may have just wanted to keep it to football
HH certainly isn’t doing a great job of not trying to be political here – towing the line of an endorsement
Oh Scott, no reason to instigate.
This is 2nd time anything remotely politcal has been on the site. I didn’t put any opinion one way or the other on this article. It’s a Redskins great following something he believes. There of course will be people and fans who hate and love this…it’s how politics is…but he’s a Redskin and that makes it news here.
disclaimer – Wiggim is a friend of mine.
Hogs Haven. On Twitter. And Facebook.
by Kevin Ewoldt on Jun 4, 2010 12:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Hi Kev
I was actually trying to end discussion – but suddenly realize that was a dumb way to go about it. I’ll take the “End Discussion Fails for 800, Alex.”
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
I was actually taking to Scott (username 'Wiggum')
But you hit the Daily Double.
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He's got my vote.
We’ve gotten away from the basics…the Constitution.
Don’t understand why people are hating on him, he’s tired of an over-sized, over-reaching govt. I’m tired of paying almost half of what I make to the govt. Aren’t you?
No
I kinda like roads, the military, drinkable tap water, a five day work week, rivers that don’t catch on fire … you get the idea.
Really, so much of the [complaining] about the Govt. sounds like that scene in the Life of Brian where they all start complaining about the Romans and “what have they ever done for us” … well, other than public safety, sanitation, drinking water, etc etc etc.
Two things we can all agree with, though: Hail to the Redskins! And Dallas sucks. :-D
+1
for all points and the Python reference
The world looks mighty different when you're peeking out your belly button
by Skins Fan '77 on Jun 6, 2010 10:37 AM EDT up reply actions
There was a recently a series of articles based on a Univ. of Wash. poll that implied for Tea Partyers it’s not so much using government resources but on who they are used on. i.e. it’s cool for medicare and Social secuirty or farming subsidies for them but when it’s used on minorities its a whole nother thing.
“Barreto, citing a recent New York Times poll that found most tea party supporters approved of government spending for Social Security and Medicare, and research by fellow UW professor Christopher Parker, concludes “The tea party movement is not just about small government or frustration. It’s (also) about a very specific frustration with government resources being used on minorities and gays and lesbians and people who are more diverse.”
by BayAreaBullet on Jun 6, 2010 1:26 PM EDT up reply actions
ding ding ding
The tea party movement is not just about small government or frustration. It’s (also) about a very specific frustration with government resources being used on minorities and gays and lesbians and people who are more diverse."
"By far the worst performers on the team are in the front office." – Sally Jenkins
+1,000,000
Anti-govt talk makes for great rhetoric and awful governing policy.
I too am happy to pay taxes for the things I get in return. Police. Fire. Drinking water. Public transportation.
"By far the worst performers on the team are in the front office." – Sally Jenkins
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