It’s a particularly gray morning in Austin – overcast and 52, with spitting rain that’s supposed to give way to downpours and an eventual afternoon “high” of 43.

I drove in this morning with Bev, both of us listening to NPR on the radio (neither of us are talkative in the morning – this is why we carpool well together) and the usual sort of journalistic mental masturbation we’ve been hearing a lot of about the upcoming presidential race. They were interviewing one of the Super Delegates (cue theme music: duh da da daaaa!) because at this point it’s pretty clear that the Democratic nomination is probably going to be in their hands.

My mind drifted off because, well, I’m bored with the whole thing. The blessing is that we won’t have the Republicans and Democrats sniping at each other for months on end, but that’s only because we’re going to have the Democrats sniping at each other in the interim.

And then a phrase from the radio caught my attention: “They’re going to need some sage advice in order to walk that fine line between assertive and being negative.”

And it just clicked in my head: Hillary and Obama need Tim Gunn!

Granted, this thought might have come into my head because I watched the Project Runway finale last night, and I remember thinking, as I always do, that some of the contestants are just stupid for not listening to Tim Gunn. When Tim Gunn offers you advice, you take it. When Tim Gunn offers you mangled animal carcass, you take it.

Tim to Chelsea Clinton: “This ’3 AM’ ad worries me. Make it work.”

And then I had this mental image of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton standing on the runway at Parsons, and Heidi Klum saying to one of them, “Congratulations. You are the winner of the Democratic nomination for President. [looks at the other candidate] I’m sorry, that means you’re out. Auf wiedersehen.”

This would, of course, be after Michael Kors goes after Obama: “We’ve seen that same blue suit over and over and over again. Navy blue just screams, “I’m a politician.” What’s wrong with a little thinking outside the box. We need to bring back color.”

Nina Garcia would then tell Hillary, “The pants-suit is so masculine. You are a woman. Don’t be afraid to show that feminine side of yourself once in a while.”

And then guest judge Victoria Beckham would say something like, “I used to be a Spice Girl, but now I take myself way too seriously and pout all the time.”

The really funny thing is that it seems to me that Heidi Klum might be the only judge in America that either party won’t try to sue afterwards …

Tags: barack obama, fantasies, hillary clinton, politics, project-runway, Television