Last night, Joe Buck hosted Curt Schilling on “Joe Buck Live.” Were you watching? No? Neither was I! I’d say it’s because I had work to do, but even if I didn’t, you couldn’t pay me any amount of money to watch “Joe Buck Live.” I would literally rather sit over my roommate’s shoulder and watch him do an investment banking model in Excel. It might as well be Chinese to me, but it’s less painful than Joe Buck.

Of course, in my haste to dismiss Joe Buck and Curt Schilling on one stage for ONE NIGHT ONLY, I missed the quote of the year. It’s unfiltered truth like this that makes Curt Schilling a lock to be a Massachusetts Senator one day:

“I think the country is sick and tired of elected officials beholden to special interests,” Schilling said. “I think we’re at a time and a place where we’re voting for the lesser of two evils instead of the best candidate.”

That’s an awesome quote, Curt Schilling. Way to go. Not only did you manage to use the most tired, shopworn, boring political cliche of all-time, but you managed to use a tired, shopworn, boring political cliche that hasn’t been relevant since 2000. Not sure if you noticed, Curt, but in the past decade or so, we as a country have figured out pretty quickly that votes do matter, that candidates are different, that the trajectory of the country can take very obvious, life-and-death forks in the road based on who is elected to federal office. And I’m not just talking about George W. Bush, even though he was the initial recipient of the both-candidates-are-the-same-meme that eight years later managed to look entirely foolish.

This goes for the 2008 campaign too, when it was pretty obvious that Barack Obama and John McCain held severely opposing views on a variety of issues. These things matter, Curt.

Fortunately, as a budding politician, these aren’t the kind of things Curt needs to worry about. He just needs to keep those populist cliches coming. Schill, it pains me to say this … but I have a feeling you’ll do just fine out there.

(HT: SBN)