Forget Curt Schilling. It’s Tom Brady who should be running for the U.S. Senate.

His campaign slogan will be, “Let’s go!”

After all, if the famous quarterback of the New England Patriots is going to get grief for being President Donald Trump’s friend, or for a visit to the White House, then he should at least make the most of it.

Brady should challenge hard left Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is running for re-election in 2018, defeat her, and get to Washington. After 17 years of playing for the Patriots and accumulating five Super Bowl rings, he may be looking for a change. It is assumed Brady votes Republican.

Brady will be 40 in August, and after 17 years of NFL football he could be ready for a new challenge. And, once elected, if he misses the game he could always play part time for the Washington Redskins if, in this politically correct era, the team changes its name.

The Redskins name could become an issue in a Senate campaign. Warren is a former blue-eyed Cherokee Indian who left the tribe when she was elected to the Senate.

It is true that Brady wants to continue playing football for a long time. But there is no truth to the rumor that he wants to still be in the game at age 55 so he can throw Patriot touchdown passes to his sons Jack and Ben, who are now 9 and 7.

So the Senate is appealing, and Brady’s connections to the president, as well as his charm, demeanor and good looks, would add to his national appeal. Those football fans who dislike him would be happy to see him in the Senate as well, rather than on television every Sunday beating their teams to a pulp.

Once in the Senate Brady, along with Trump’s other two Patriot friends, team owner Bob Kraft and coach Bill Belichick, could help Trump run the country and the world.

Belichik could serve as Trump’s communications coach and run Trump’s war against the liberal establishment press. After a couple of Belichick press briefings the White House press corps would be begging for mercy.

Kraft would be given a special State Department assignment to deal with Vladimir Putin, who pulled a fast one when he pocketed Kraft’s 2005 Super Bowl ring that Kraft foolishly showed him during a Moscow business meeting. Kraft wants the ring back.

And that is because my non-existent, imaginary sources in the intelligence community leaked to me that U.S. intelligence agents planted a minuscule bug under one of the diamonds in the $26,000 ring.

That way U.S. intelligence could overhear and record Vlad’s comments about Trump when Vlad flashed the ring in front of his fellow thugs at a vodka party in the Kremlin. “I wish I had his hair,” Putin was recorded saying.

If the Patriot Trio could do for the Trump administration what they have done for the Patriots franchise, then America would indeed be great again.

And it does not matter if the football writers and some football fans, both inside and outside New England, hate Trump and are critical of Brady for being friends with Trump.

The Patriots are winners, and despite adversity the Patriots showed the world that they could get the job done. Just like Trump.

Yet even some Boston Globe sportswriters have turned on Brady, even though he executed a brilliant comeback against the Atlanta Falcons to win the team’s fifth Super Bowl. That is because Brady does not share the Globe’s unhinged, leftist view of Trump.

The newspaper is also upset because Brady, along with Kraft, Belichick and most team members, are going to the White House to be honored by Trump.

The liberals want Brady to boycott the meeting, the way those cowardly Democrats boycotted Trump’s inaugural.

One Globe sportswriter wrote this past week, “The Patriots don’t have to stiff-arm the president, but they would be wise to at least start distancing themselves from some of his policies.”

What policies? Like enforcing current immigration laws and deporting criminal illegal immigrants? That is what Trump was elected to do — enforce the laws that Barack Obama ignored.

This is to take nothing away from Curt Schilling. He was a great former Boston Red Sox pitcher, and his bloody sock performance in 2004 against the New York Yankees in Game 6 of the American League championship will long be remembered.

But the fiery and outspoken conservative, who is quick to shoot from the lip, is almost too much like Trump. And who needs two Trumps in Washington when it can hardly deal with one?

Brady is the man.

Let’s go!

Peter Lucas’ political column appears Tuesday and Friday. Email him at luke1825@aol.com.