Gretchen Whitmer, she has experiance in dealing with gun nuts and crazy people trying to kidnap her. She would drive the RW nut jobs, well nuts.
That and she is well qualified politcally, fairly young, an attractive personality and knows how to react to SNL digs on her state.
Jon Stewart, after the way he totally embarrased that pro-gun rep.
My Governor, Jared Polis:
Sherrod Brown. A funny liberal-populist curmudgeon is what we need next.
I value foreign policy experience more than most here, I think. I don’t believe Americans truly appreciate that how we stand in the world greatly affects how we live at home.
I’m also not enamored of youth for youth’s sake in office. Give me the mature, experienced dog every time.
In our current situation, I’d probably pick Chris Murphy. He’s young, smart and religiously unaffiliated. I’d want him to work on his climate change policies, though.
Liz Warren with Jon Stewart as veep.
Um … I changed my mind. 
I’ll third Gretchen Whitmer for all the reasons you mention.
And BTW, the SNL skit was not really a dig, it was very sympathetic to Whitmer (ok, it did kinda portray Michigan as a woodsy backwater). The care package from the Whitmer administration was to correct the grevious error that Cecily Strong made of showing Gretchen drinking a Labatts instead of a good Michigan microbrew.
Yeah, and that’s why I wouldn’t vote Dolly. There are people with a weird enough personality that they want to be president, and okay, hoss, I’m not gonna kink-shame, fly that freak flag high. But for anyone who hasn’t demonstrated a weird masochistic desire to be president, putting them in that position would be downright vicious. I don’t want to use it as a punishment on my enemies, because my enemies would do terribly stupid shit with that power; but I also don’t want to give that power to my friends, because I don’t want to punish my friends.
The only choice is to find someone weird enough to actually want that kind of power but sane enough to do reasonable things with it. Rara avis indeed.
AOC is my choice.
Someone not eleventy billion years old, for sure. Tammy Duckworth was my first thought; Gretchen Whitmer sounds good as well. Maybe even Pete Buttigieg, though I think he’s been a little bit of a disappointment so far.
What I’d really like to see is a round-up of younger, spirited Democratic candidates all fight hard (but reasonably civilly, not eviscerating each other) for the nomination with lots of substantive debates where they challenged each other’s platforms and demonstrated their experience and mastery of policy. Then, I’d choose the one I thought was best from that group.
(Yes, I know, it’s a fantasy that will never happen.)
Lock them all in a room and let them debate until they all agree on who should be the nominee.
Hillary Clinton.
Since he keeps a gun in his house, I’d like to see that. Have you a link?
There was a day not long ago when suggesting someone like Dolly would have garnered nothing but scoffs, but the fact that she’s probably magnitudes smarter than PAB, and would actually try to do her best (I’m just guessing) makes her uber viable.
If my vote also removes their reservations from serving… Obama.
Michelle Obama.
Yup that’s the one. I was just about post it when I saw it pop up.
Oops, my bad. Stewart probably does not own a firearm.
Thanks for the link.
That would be so great.
Not Jon Stewart. Al Franken. He has as good a sense of humor and he was an actual Senator.