The bigger question is what he should actually do as First Gentleman. He would be “in charge of revitalizing the economy, because, you know, he knows how to do it.” He has “got to come out of retirement” and take on job creation. That struck many people as an awfully broad mandate. Luckily, she seems to have dropped that idea—or, at least, we haven’t heard it lately. It might have been a spur-of-the-moment bid for the hearts and minds of working-class voters in coal country who remember her husband fondly.

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