Wanna make Rush Limbaugh crazier than he already is?

[SheilaT]

78. I think we cross posted.

I agree that 2 former first ladies is not a very good idea.

There's a lack of critical thinking on the part of those who go, "Oh! Wouldn't it be nice if Michele Obama runs for President? How about Chelsea Clinton? Caroline Kennedy?"

I have two names to suggest: Lurleen Wallace and Evita Peron. For those of you who don't immediately recognize those names, I'll pause while you Google them.
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Okay, have you looked them up? Now do you understand why it's a lot better that people who are already involved in electoral politics run for office, rather than the wives or daughters of those people?

This is connected to why so-called business leaders, like Donald Trump, Mitt Romney, Linda McMahon, Herman Cain, Ross Perot, and probably several others I cannot name right now, why those people make terrible candidates, and in the rare circumstances when they win an election they make terrible politicians. The only example I can actually think of who won an election is Mitt Romney, who was an awful Governor of Massachusetts. In his case, because he never actually ran a business, he had no understanding whatsoever for the need to provide infrastructure. He also thought that running and winning were sufficient, and didn't seem to understand what was actually involved in governing a state.

The business world is utterly different from the public political sphere. In recent years it has become fashionable to pretend they are interchangeable. I think that's a result of the business school model. In business school you're taught that if you can run one business you can run any other. It's my experience, as a low level employee, that it's simply not true. Each business is different, perhaps unique. Some skill sets are transferable, but not all. You would not hire an electrician to work on your plumbing. But it's considered perfectly fine that a person who ran an airline could now run an automobile manufacturing company. No wonder so many companies are is such dire straits.

To get back to the original point of this post. Just because a person has been in close proximity to a job, does not mean that person can do it. I was married for 25 years to a computer programmer. I could not program anything to save my life. Being married to a President, being the daughter or son-in-law of one, does NOT make one capable of being President.

I will say, that in Hillary Clinton's defense, she did run for office on her own, and from what I can tell, was a pretty decent Senator.

But, she is seriously too old for 2016, has said she has no interest in running again, and it's time for new blood.