With today’s news, I can add Cory Booker to this thread. 
Because I… really like them both a whole lot?
We wuz robbed.
RE: Jon Stewart:
He would probably be the only celebrity I’d consider. And I was quite impressed with his passion for the first responders. But he looked under slept, frail and basically OCD about the first responder testimony. I’m not sure he’s up to much multi-tasking these days. Just my impression.
Which non-current candidate would I WANT to run? Cthulhu, definitely a swamp-drainer. Joe Arapaio, tried and true. Mitt Romney, if he had any guts. Sarah Palin, flashing pale flesh. A deep-fake animation or clone of Tricky Dicky Nixon. Allah.
Which would I EXPECT to run? Any of the usual gang of [del]gypsies, tramps, and thieves[/del] exhibitionists.
Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan.
Who unfortunately doesn’t exist.
– I suspect some person(s) do(es) exist who would do a massively better job of it than anybody currently running. (Maybe it’s even Abrams or Duckworth.) That person(s), however, has more sense than to want the job.
I don’t know how to pry out the people who know better than to want it, and to make them run. I don’t even know how to properly write a qualification for POTUS that amounts to ‘wanting this job is a disqualification for holding it.’ If I could figure out how to write that, I’d be agitating to get it into the Constitution.
Massachusetts representative Seth Moulton. A breath of centrism in a polarizing arena.
I’ll go with this.
Yeah. Giving the win to Huntsman. 
I don’t dislike this idea, but if it were a bait and switch, it would be a shameful misplacement of trust.
I concur.
I came in to say Tammy Duckworth and see I’m not alone. She was born in Thailand though, so while we can dream anything we want, it won’t happening.
I believe experience doing something comparable is a plus, so I like a governor.
I very much want Trump limited to one term, which also points to nominating a governor.
And, like many governors, I am a centrist.
So I’ll suggest Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, if it were possible for the GOP to dump Trump.
Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island should be drafted in the unlikely event of a deadlocked Democratic convention.
Greg Graffin … a UCLA and Cornell professor college professor who has an interesting view on things … he wouldn’t win but hed raise some hell and ask all the uncomfortable questions
he’ also wrote trhese books :Evolution, Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist World-View Polypterus Press(2004)
Is Belief in God Good, Bad, or Irrelevant? with Preston Jones (2006)
Evolution, Religion and Free Will with William Provine, American Scientist, vol. 95, issue 4, p. 294 (2007)
“Evolution and Religion: Questioning the Beliefs of the World’s Eminent Evolutionists”, Polypterus Press, Ithaca, N.Y. (2010)
Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God with Steve Olson (2010)
The Population Wars (2015)
He also has another side project or two …
Are you saying that she’s not eligible or that it will be used against her? Daddy was American.
Still trying to figure out how he was a brain surgeon. And a top notch one too.
The former. You have to be born in the US to be president. That’s why the kerfuffle over Obama supposedly being born in Kenya was such a big deal.
There has been talk of changing that rule, especially when Arnold Schwarzenegger’s political career looked more promising. He was born in Austria so not eligible to be president.
No, although the US President is required to be a “natural-born citizen” of the US, that doesn’t have to mean they were born on US territory, as long as they’re an American citizen by birth (i.e., born of at least one US citizen parent).
Of course, it’s not entirely clear exactly what “natural-born citizen” does mean, and some sources agree with you that it implies a condition on birthplace. But we’ve had Presidential candidates who were birthright US citizens born outside the US, and I very much doubt they’d have been ruled ineligible to serve if they’d been elected.
E.g., John McCain born in the Panama Canal Zone, Ted Cruz born in Canada (about whom the Illinois Board of Elections ruled “The candidate is a natural born citizen by virtue of being born in Canada to his mother who was a U.S. citizen at the time of his birth”), and Tulsi Gabbard born in American Samoa (which doesn’t automatically make her a US citizen by birthplace, but the fact that her parents were US citizens did).
Thanks for that far superior and more accurate explanation, Kimstu. Ignorance fought.
A pleasure and a privilege.
No one has mentioned Tim Kaine? He’d be way up at the top of my list had he ran. Not sure if he could have overtaken Pete in my preference list but he’d be up there.
Probably Nikki Haley. I have assumed that if President Trump were to grasp his chest and fall over dead, she would be the one to try to save the party.