Limbaugh Nightmare Announcement: 'I Think They're Preparing Michelle To Run'
Would you like to go back to the Obama years? If you’re a conservative, obviously not. If you’re a liberal, obviously yes.
But here’s the thing, according to Rush Limbaugh: Liberals might be looking forward to the Obama years. The Michelle Obama years.
Limbaugh brought up the possibility that many conservatives have been fearing on his Monday show as he critiqued Sen. Kamala Harris’ announcement that she was running for president.
The radio host noted that she “checks off a lot of boxes: Female, African-American, identity politics extraordinaire … She’s from a big state, minority, woman, leftist enough.”
However, Limbaugh didn’t think that was enough star power to get her anything but a vice presidential spot — and that could leave a very familiar first lady in the driver’s seat.
“She could be Biden’s vice presidential nominee. But! But! Over here, if Michelle … Obama runs, then Kamala Who? and Joe Who? and Howard (Schultz) Who? and all the rest of ’em who?
“If Michelle — and I do believe that she’s thinking about it, and I do believe … I don’t think they’ve made up their mind yet,” he added.
“But I think they are preparing for her to run. They’re surveying the land. They’re surveying the circumstances. And if the right shoes drop and the right things happen, I think Michelle … will be in there, and the proof of the pudding is by the utter denial, but all the books and all of the speeches and the all of this and the all of that.”
For the record, Michelle Obama says she won’t be seeking the White House.
“I don’t wanna run for president!” she exclaimed when asked about it in December, according to The Hill.
“My path has never been politics,” she added. “I just happened to marry somebody whose passion was politics. Just because he likes it doesn’t mean that I like it!”
Her husband has also shut down the possibility, saying last October that Michelle is “not running for president, but she is out there telling you to vote because the antidote to government by the powerful few is government by the organized, energized many.”
That’s all wonderful, but the truth is that nobody’s really set the Democrat field on fire yet. Polls show Joe Biden as the tentative frontrunner with Bernie Sanders a solid second and some flavor of the week usually occupying third place. (As of late, that’s been Beto O’Rourke.)
This isn’t exactly a murderer’s row of candidates, and the Obamas know it. Also, keep in mind that Obama had strongly urged Biden not to run in 2016, the former vice president said.
“The president, in Biden’s telling, dropped heavy hints that, for the good of party unity, the vice president should stand down; Clinton’s political organization was formidable, and it was her turn,” Vanity Fair reported in December of 2017. “Obama further cited the excitement with which he personally was anticipating life after holding high office, and asked Biden, ‘Joe, have you focused on that? How do you want to spend the rest of your life?’”
The question remains as to whether or not this was just for the sake of party unity, as Biden tells it, or because Obama didn’t think Joe Biden should be president. I always thought Biden was an odd choice of veeps for Obama, mostly picked to prove his seaworthiness among the party establishment back in 2008 when he was thought to be considerably to the left of that coterie.
That’s not the case anymore; Barack Obama and his acolytes are the establishment, and Biden — once referred to as “the senator from MBNA” for his extensive ties to the banking community — is well to the right of almost anyone in the Democrat field. If that starts hampering the frontrunner and no other candidate emerges during 2019, might Michelle Obama decide her path may actually be politics?
Another four years of an Obama, and possibly eight. Another four years of the pen-and-phone, another four years of far-left judicial nominees and the bolstering of Obamacare, another four years of the Paris climate agreement and the Iran deal, another four years of economic stagnation and higher taxes.
That’s what America voted against in 2016. Let’s hope, if a second Obama candidacy rears its ugly head, the reaction will be the same. If not, the consequences could be chilling.
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