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Curt Schilling: "I'd Love to Give the White House a Try"

President Curt Schilling could be a thing we say in six, eight years, according to Curt Schilling.
*As of this posting, Donald Trump has not yet been elected and undone 220 some odd years of history, so this is still technically true.

Are you ready for a future campaign ad that is simply the "This is Fine" dog sitting outside the blazing house that is America, waiting on a hero? Because if this interview with TMZ is to be believed, Curt Schilling might actually make that happen. Curt Schilling might actually be that hero.

TMZ had Schilldog on the program to have a substantive and meaningful discussion about the recent presidential debate that embarrassed the entire country (sample exchange: "Is there anything that Hillary Clinton said or did that moved you towards her at all?" "GOD, no!") and casually dropped that he very well could run for president some day. Good luck getting elected without Rhode Island's four electoral votes, Curt!

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In speaking about the relative qualities of Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton, Schilling said:

"We want the anti-establishment person. There will never be a more anti-establishment person than him—unless I eventually run for the White House, which is a possibility…. You know I think I'm gonna run here in Mass in two years, I think I'm gonna run against Elizabeth Warren here in Mass…. It's something I'm getting more serious about…. If governor [Charlie] Baker ends up running for the White House, which is a possibility, I might run for the governor's position here. And then, you know what? I would like to give, you know, six, eight years from now, I'd love to give the White House a try."

OK, so does everyone have that? In two years, he will take on the senior Democratic U.S. Senator in Massachusetts. Then, maybe he'll give the "governor's position" a try for a couple years. And then, heck, maybe we'll see what all the hubbub is about being leader of the free world.*

Schilling continued, "I'm the kind of guy who imagined myself pitching in the big leagues, I imagined myself doing things that other people don't imagine themselves doing. So my whole life has been spent thinking about what I could possibly achieve, not what I couldn't."

Here is a thing I never imagined myself doing, that Schilling actually did:

[TMZ]