Professional bicycle rider Lance Armstrong may run Texas's next open Senate seat. The testicular cancer survivor told the Daily Beast, "If you feel like you can do the job better than people who are doing it now... then that's a real calling to serve." Oh great, now everyone in America is going to run for office.

A seat in the United States Senate. Caroline Kennedy wants one, Fran Drescher is mulling it over, and now Lance Armstrong. Why do so many celebrities go big immediately? Can no one get their legislative feet wet on the city council? Even Sarah Palin started at the PTA. Senators need to pass good legislation and block bad legislation- job requirements which demand a unique blend of backslapping and backstabbing that we're not sure that winning Tour de France teaches. In fact, we're pretty sure you have to be a massive dick to win the Tour eight times AND conquer stage IV cancer. His story sounds somewhat epic, almost McCainian, and we all know how that turned out.

All we're saying perhaps Lance's temperament is better suited to a Governor's mansion. Not that it matters, his senate campaign is in full swing:

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