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Can this squirrel thing get any more bizarre?

Via CNN: Michelle Obama said Monday she’s “definitely” not jumping into politics, but suggested the United States might not be too far away from having its first woman commander in chief. Asked at the Washington event if she would consider a political career once her husband leaves the White House in 2017, Mrs. Obama gave a flat no. But, she …

The Republican Party has launched a bizarre campaign featuring the “HRC Squirrel” – a giant sports mascot-type who has been showing up at Hillary Clinton’s book signings. As you can see, the squirrel has a Twitter account. RNC chairman Reince Preibus appears in the below clip.

At an appearance in San Francisco, yesterday Texas Gov. Rick Perry said he doesn’t know if “ex-gay” therapy works. And then he compared homosexuality to alcoholism. The Texas Republican Party this month adopted a platform supporting access to “reparative therapy” for gays and lesbians, a widely discredited process intended to change sexual orientation. In response to an audience question about …

Almost a year after he said he would do it, Sen. Ted Cruz has finally renounced his Canadian citizenship. Spokeswoman Catherine Frazier said Cruz’s action became official May 14 and that Texas’ junior senator received written confirmation at his home in Houston on Tuesday. She said the tea-party-backed Republican “is pleased to have the process finalized.” “Being a U.S. Senator …

From Britain’s right-leaning Telegraph.

NBC Chicago ponders: FLOTUS for Senate? It wasn’t that long ago that such a slogan would seem absurd, but political wags are beginning to wonder whether Michelle Obama is mulling a run for Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk’s seat in 2016. A Thursday column in Reuters suggests that Obama would be the only candidate with a large enough profile to unseat …

Evan Gahr writes at Daily Beast: Dr. Ben Carson, the Republican right’s favorite African-American neurosurgeon, often says that President Obama’s health care law is the worst thing since slavery. But in my recent interview with the good doctor—who is riding high in the presidential preliminaries, having come in a close second to Sen. Ted Cruz this past weekend in the …

But only if God tells him to. As you might recall, in 2012 God told personally Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum that he wanted them to run for president. Because he loves a hilarious clusterfuck.

Via the Washington Post: Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley (D), who is weighing a 2016 presidential bid, spent part of his Memorial Day doubling as a street musician in downtown Annapolis. As captured by photos on Twitter, O’Malley played a six-string banjo at City Dock on Monday night, wearing a Baltimore Ravens t-shirt, cargo shorts and flip flops. He appeared to …

Via Talking Points Memo: Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus provided back-up to Karl Rove on Sunday, arguing that it’s “fair game” to discuss Hillary Clinton’s health and age. And like Rove, Priebus isn’t entirely convinced that the former secretary of state will run in 2016. “I think that health and age is fair game,” Priebus said on “Meet the …

“Hillary is banal, corrupted, drained of vibrancy and passion. I mean, she’s been around forever, the Clinton circle. She’s a fucking hawk and like a neocon, practically. She’s surrounded by all these sleazy money types who are just corrupting everything everywhere. But she’s going to be the first female president, and women in America are going to be completely invested …

“A diamond is but a rock until it undergoes intense pressure and heat. Steel is purified by intense heat. We cannot seek to live a life where our goal is to go from one oasis to another. Sometimes we have to cross a desert in order to develop inner strength. Many are asking me to consider a huge undertaking. If …

In March a federal judge ruled that Michigan’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. That ruling was stayed pending appeal but not before over 300 gay couples had married. The ACLU then filed suit on behalf of eight of those couples with a demand that the state recognize the marriages conducted during the days in which it was legal. While …

Darrell Trigg is running for president as the candidate of the Christian Party, whose platform calls for establishing Christianity as the official state religion, mandatory Bible study in public schools, the criminalization of homosexuality, the banning of curse words and pornography from television and the internet, and prison sentences for adulterers. Watch the uncharismatic Trigg’s campaign clip below.

“You say you can ask the question a million ways. I’m going to only answer it one way. With apologies, I’m sure you’ve heard this answer before. I am a recovering politician. And the longer I avoid a relapse the more confidence that I will not succumb to the temptation to run yet again. But I’m a recovering politician. I’ll …

“Chelsea Clinton is having a baby, she announced it and lo and behold, Hillary was by her side. Hillary is going to be a grandmother. And an expected grandmother while she runs for president. I don’t mean that they’re making up she’s pregnant, OK? But what great timing! I mean, purely accidental, purely an act of nature, purely just left …

Tea Party darling Dr. Ben Carson is laying the groundwork for a 2016 presidential bid with a video posted yesterday. The last time someone with zero political experience was elected president was six decades ago. And Eisenhower was a five-star general who had been the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces during WWII. RELATED: Last month Carson declared that the …