Burgum Shmergum

Doug Burgum is running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.  He's the governor of North Dakota.

These jokes write themselves, folks!

Burgum made something of a splash when he announced his candidacy last week, mainly because no North Dakotan has ever run for President before - so there was the, um, historic angle.  Burgum thinks he has a chance just because he founded a computer software company out of Fargo (right, I understand that Fargo is the Silicon Valley of the Great Plains) and became a billionaire when he sold it to Microsoft.  So, that's likely why he thinks he can govern this country despite governing fewer people than the borough president of Staten Island does.  So what if he's the richest billionaire in North Dakota - he's the only billionaire in North Dakota!

Burgum's platform is the typical Republican plate-boiler biz - low taxes, pro-life, and small government - well, he has the small-government thing down.  How?  Perhaps you weren't paying attention - he's the governor of North Dakota.

I predict that Nia-Malika Henderson will laugh at her own mention of his name - and not because it sounds like a character from "Li'l Abner." I also predict that Molly Ball will pretend to forget his name.  Yes, I predict that Doug Burgum will be the Martin O'Malley of 2024.  But at least Maryland is a more substantial state, with a real city with two major-league sports franchises and a world-class university.

As for laughing at the mention of Doug Burgum's name, I'm laughing at it right now.

As for what happened to Martin O'Malley in 2016 . . . I'm not laughing at that.