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Now we can all go outside the box for a 2004 presidential nominee
Let's face it. Gore will get trounced. Gephardt will get trounced. Daschle will probably get trounced. Edwards is a trial lawyer, for God's sake. I can't see Kerry or Dean doing it, either; guys similar to them tanked tonight against Bush's tools.
Who does that leave?

The answer is that it leaves plenty of people. They just need to be found and drafted (hell, we're all probably going to get drafted, anyway)

Wes Clark. Four stars, the ability to stare Bush down, swing state and "swing state personality".

Claudia Kennedy. Only three stars, but you get the gender thing going, and a hell of a biography.

Laura Tyson. Will you be better off than you were four years ago?

Michael Jordan. Don't laugh until you think it through.

Harrison Ford. What does he stand for? Gotta be better than Bush.

Now, I don't know any of these people, and I have zero clout in the Democratic party. However, I can tell you that if we don't nominate someone that can show the center and the non-radical independents that we have something to offer them, I bet you we lose 7 winable Senate seats in 2004 (Boxer, Miller, Bayh, Mikulski, Reid, Schumer, Edwards and/or their replacements) , even if Bush is unbeatable anyway. While I have no doubts that Bush will show an Achilles' heel, it will need to be seized upon, and this election shows me no evidence that politicians who talk in the traditional Dem. style will make it in national elections (notice how I said talk, not act).

So go out and draft one of these guys.

!!!!!!!!!From DUh!!!!!!!!!!!!