A bunch of dudes are still hammering it out for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination, but that doesn’t mean that “experts” who are paid to “speculate” aren’t thinking ahead to 2014 and 2016, when we once again have a wide-open field, full of the promise of even more white dudes clamoring for your vote for President. Because, of course, the one thing you want to think of in the midst of this tantalizingly exciting campaign cycle is…we get to do this again in just less than four years.
Good news for everyone, of course, is that, barring some extenuating circumstances such as the declaration that the United States is a benevolent dictatorship, Barack Obama will be incapable of running for a third term. Which means, he can retire to the shores of Oahu where he will be free to romp shirtless in the waves and ride bikes in Mom jeans and play round after spectacular round of golf without having all that, you know, icky work to deal with.
Bad news is, Michelle Obama is on the short list of possibilities to challenge Sen. Mark Kirk in Illinois. You knew this couldn’t be good news. I mean, come on.
In November 2016, Illinois voters will go to the polls to decide who they want to occupy the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Sen. Mark Kirk. And although it is a long way off, could one of the names on the ticket be first lady Michelle Obama?
At the end of this weekend’s broadcast of “The McLaughlin Group,” show host John McLaughlin made that bold prediction, saying a Michelle Obama run for the seat her husband won in 2004 would happen.
“Michelle Obama will run for the United States Senate in 2016 and she will be thereby mimicking, if that’s not the right word [then] duplicating the career of Hillary Clinton,” McLaughlin said.
Can we just pay these two to go away, ah, NOW!