Who do you think should be President in 2017?

[Ardent15]

I pick Brian Schweitzer, with Feingold as his VP.

[Horse with no Name]

1. After the next few years

and with Congress acting the way they are, who knows what the political landscape will look like?
I mean, seriously, in 1776, the Federalist and the Democratic-Republican parties probably seemed like good ideas too.:shrug:

[Occam Bandage]

6. I cannot resist the pedantic urge.

Neither of those parties existed before 1792, and I still think the Democratic-Republican party is a pretty good idea, though we cast off the "-Republican" part way back when.

[Horse with no Name]

10. Pedantic, indeed.

My dates were off...we shall say in late 1700's.

[stillcool]

2. any number of DU'ers..

[shadowknows69]

17. Ok, I'll do it

[BlooInBloo]

3. I called Schweitzer awhile back (and suggested him for VP). But there's no point...

in such idle speculations so far into the future.

[FLAprogressive]

4. other way around

[Motown_Johnny]

5. Knowing Dems we will do something crazy by then, Maybe a Pelosi/Reed ticket

wouldn't that just be joyful ?

[roamer65]

7. I think we need to focus on 2012 first.

If this economic depression is not dealt with quickly and effectively, we will be out in 2012. This is the cold, hard truth.

[DJ13]

8. If Obama ends up not liberal enough, Dennis Kucinich

I've had about enough of "moderates" and/or "centrists" as they end up like wheels spinning in the mud....lots of noise, a bunch of mud thrown around, but no real change in direction.

[timtom]

16. I was ready for him in 2004

and again in 2008!

All the rest: bought and paid for.

[crimsonblue]

9. It won't matter

The rapture will happen before then. :P

[Warpy]

11. It sounds great to me, but we'll have to do a lot of persuading

to get Gov. Schweitzer to tolerate Washington DC for at least one term in office.

[dysfunctional press]

12. ask me again sometime around 2015. LATE 2015.

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[asteroid2003QQ47]

13. He ran against Reagan.

Increasingly I'm given cause to think I should have voted for him in the past election
and am forced to consider the liklihood of him being the superior candidate in 2017.

[Bonn1997]

14. Sarah Palin

JK
No clue this far in advance. I like the Dennis suggestion though.

[DFW]

15. At least Feingold won't be near 70 by then. A LOT of good people will be.

Howard Dean, Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, Dennis Kucinich, etc etc.

Plenty of today's main Democratic figures, from JBD (just barely Democrats)
to downright progressive, will look downright McCain-ish by then.

Don't forget, in 2000, who outside of Illinois had EVER heard of Barack Obama?
For that matter, who outside of Vermont had ever heard of Howard Dean?

I say, give some new blood some time to make their mark, and wait until mid-2015
before even opening up speculation. It's not like we will be bored in the meantime.

[coalition_unwilling]

18. Joking with a serious sub-text: I'd like

to see a race between Bob Avakian (chair of the Revolutionary Communist Party) running on the left and . . drum roll . . . Dennis Kucinich running on the right :)

Those would be some great debates!

[ConcernedCanuk]

19. Jon Stewart

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who else????