I would also be interested in Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren.

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I'm not a fan of purity tests. I think we need to look at the full package for anyone we want to carry the banner.

I would love to know her views on other issues. Cecil is a badass, without a doubt.

While I don't think that would make her the second coming of Trump, I want somebody who understands government and how it should work. There will be lots to fix after Trump, I want somebody who can hit the ground running.

I'd be glad to have her have a prominent role in the next administration around women's health.

And do you really not understand how deeply hated Planned Parenthood is?

There are probably more of these women than the haters.

But I do think there are women in government now who could be possibilities...

But she still doesn't have any real qualifications to be President.

I haven't talked to her for over a year now (we do email), but she never expressed any interest--to me, anyway, and granted, I am not her most intimate confidant--up to then in running for national office. She's smart enough, that's for sure, and has administrative experience during adversity as head of PP. But she never said anything at all about running for Congress or Governor of Texas, much less president. Unless she has changed her mind, she's not looking for the job. I don't think it's realistic to go floating the name of every smart, capable Democratic woman as a potential presidential candidate. Any candidate that wants the job will make that known in due time.

I do NOT think her time as head of Planned Parenthood is a negative. I reject the notion that PP is hated by anyone who doesn't watch Fox Noise (and believe what they hear) or swallows the lies of phony "evangelical" groups who claim that PP is mainly an organization that provides abortions. Since all of about 3% of their efforts have anything to do with abortion, and the rest have to with women's health and contraception (what do people think "planned" means, anyhow?), equating PP only with abortion is a phony tactic to justify male control freaks wanting their women to have no say in anything that affects their bodies. Sure, men like THAT hate PP, probably almost as much as their women hate them.

Really?

Being a lobbyist on a relatively narrow set of issues is not a substitute.

The love of outsiders a very American trait.

We've had enough proposals of people who have no real qualifications for the job. Just because someone has some good attributes with which we agree is not a qualification for a successful run for that office.

No more amateurs as candidates, please. We need to actually win and have someone with the chops to hold that office.

Feh!

I think we should consider her for TX Senate.

She astute; I have no doubt she could learn what she needed. Dems should do some polling to get a favorability rating.

We are in a war and we need to win. We need to pick people who will win, represent their constituents (not special interests), and vote to advance the well-being of the American public.

However, the Presidency should NEVER be an on-the-job-training job. EVER.

The anti-choicers would have a fit but with women turning out in droves now running for office and generally raising hell, she'd be wonderful...