Don Surber encourages the Dems to nominate Bill Clinton as the next First Lady:

1. Clinton’s presidency haunts the Democratic Party in a way Richard Nixon never haunted Republicans. That was because the Republicans gray hairs of the day, like Barry Goldwater, thought beyond the next election and ousted him.

Had Al Gore told the party either him or me in 1999, he would have won in 2000 regardless of what the party did to Clinton.

But he didn’t. He was not man enough to be Gerald Ford and put this long national nightmare behind us.

We laughed then.

But President Ford was wise.

So, now, are the voters of South Carolina. In repudiating Bill Clinton on Saturday, South Carolina did what Ted Kennedy, Robert C. Byrd and all the other gray hairs failed to do 10 years ago.

Like I said, it was race this time. But each attack reminds people of Bill the Alienator. Most people don’t like that. But that is not the only problem with Bill.

2. He makes a lousy campaign spouse.

The good ones just sit there as smiling, waving props. Even the much accomplished Ladybird Johnson knew the routine.

Some may argue that Hillary changed all that in 1992. But face it, Bill won despite her grating disdain for the nation’s married women, a demographic he never won. If not for H. Ross Perot, Bill would be a failed governor of a failed state.

He is one of the few two-term presidents who never received a majority of the popular vote. Even Bush 43 got a majority in 2004.

A reporter for the Gazette once told me of covering JFK’s campaign in West Virginia in 1960 and seeing Jackie Kennedy just sitting there, quietly and alone. She felt sorry for her and began talking to her, just to chat.

Mind you, this is a woman who would go on to become perhaps the most revered first lady in the 20th century.

She got it. Ladybird got it. Pat Nixon got it. The campaign is about the guy running for office, not about the wife.

Bill needs to don a dress.

Or failing that, take a page from Denis Thatcher and just hold Hillary’s purse as she campaigns.