WARNING: IF YOU ARE A DIEHARD HILLARY SUPPORTER, PLEASE SKIP THIS POST AND GO TO THE NEXT.  I’M SERIOUS, GO TO THE NEXT.

Yesterday, the New York Post floated Caroline Kennedy as a possible Senate candidate from New York in 2018 and possibly president in 2020.  Coming home after a successful Ambassadorship to Japan (and summarily fired by Cheeto Jesus on Friday), she is apparently weighing a Senate run and there is speculation she could run for president in 2020.  In the article, the Post said that she could be the “next Hillary Clinton, but without the Clinton baggage”.  For God’s sake, let’s not call her the “next Hillary”.  Talk about jinxing her before she ever gets started.

I know this is going to piss off my Hillary friends (hence the above warning), but the last thing we need is to invoke Hillary’s name with a candidate who could very likely be a winner, especially against the clown infesting the Whitehouse for the last 4 days.  Hillary not only has a trainload of baggage, she also sucked as a candidate.  And I mean SUCKED. What highly qualified white woman could possibly lose the white female vote in a national election?  Hillary.  What woman candidate could possibly lose in labor states against a misogynistic narcissistic billionaire who’s never worked a day in his life?  Hillary.  What candidate could possibly lose a national election to the Worst Candidate in History?  Hillary.  The last goddam thing (sorry, Momma) we need is for Caroline Kennedy to be tainted with all that nonsense that followed Hillary around, a lot of it brought on, or made worse by her.  The right will have enough ammo raising the ghost of Teddy Kennedy; we don’t need to give them more ammo by connecting her to Hillary.

Kennedy has the right last name, is HIGHLY qualified, and could burnish her record even more by a short stint in the Senate.  She just needs to stay as far away from Hillary as possible to minimize the damage.  Hillary would be great in those closed, high dollar geriatric Clinton-style fundraisers, but she’d be a gigantic liability on the stump for Kennedy, especially with millennials, with the possible exception of parts of California and New York.

So, please, please, please, when you talk about Caroline Kennedy, don’t shipwreck her by making comparisons to Hillary.

I’m begging you.