Tammy Baldwin fits the bill.

Which would be a good thing.

to a black woman.That will really make their head explodes.

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Give me one of the Castro brothers (Julian, Joaquin) and I'll get off my old ass and canvas the neighborhood like its never been done before.
This old lilly white ass man would love to see Momma Rosa in the Whitehouse

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Our country is slowly becoming more and more of a theocracy.

in the White House, but nobody would ever have copped to it.

President. I can dream, can't I?

I really hope so. I think this country would be a much better place.

I think we will. I think the pendulum is swinging away from the religious right for good. People have had it with the hypocrisy. Really, the only reason they had any problem in the first place is because of the coalition Reagan built when he went in to office, and the GOP continued to court them after that. Now they're represented by people like Cruz and Palin, and those two are seen in a very negative light by most sane Americans. When that era has fully passed, I think we'll see more candidates who are free-thinkers.

I think a free-thinker and/ or a Unitarian would represent the country well and would work to safeguard everyone's religious rights as well as the rights of those with no religion. We probably won't have an agnostic or atheist President anytime soon, but I think it's possible.

Gotta be realistic. Only one open atheist has ever been elected to Congress in 238 years.

Don't be in such a hurry to find tokens to hold the office. It'd be easier to win if we would just run qualified candidates. If they happen to be a woman or gay or whatever, sure, but the main focus should be on quality, not on filling some idea of what we should have in office instead of whom we should have in office.

I'm sure that by suggesting we have a fit candidate instead of a candidate who is female or gay, or.... that I will be labeled as all kind of ____ists. I'm not saying that a woman could not be President (I assume the next one will be and am cool with that), I just don't want that to be the main consideration for fitness for an office.

(I'm sure I'll be self-deleting when the flames start shooting)

He certainly wasn't the most qualified candidate in the pack. If he wasn't a token, why assume that a woman or LGBT candidate would be chosen via tokenism?

Picking someone strictly based on those two criteria is just as wrong as not picking someone for a job because of those two reasons. We should work to find the most qualified person for the job, regardless of gender, race... If they are the most qualified and happen to be _______, great. If the most qualified person happened to be a white dude, he shouldn't be excluded from consideration because he does not happen to be a female or LGBT.

in every racial, gender, etc. group, and that it's simply a matter of going out and finding them.

"If the most qualified person happened to be a white dude, he shouldn't be excluded from consideration."

I totally agree with this. But it doesn't contradict the point.

and public support. We have qualified candidates with one or both of those attributes. It's just a matter of whether they are candidates who stand a chance of winning. Many thought that Obama had no chance because of race. Maybe, just maybe, the country is still willing to think outside of the 'straight white male' box.

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And I don't care if she's a left-handed bisexual Polynesian, as long as she can govern effectively, shore up our infrastructure, improve our diplomatic standing around the world, and help those who need jobs find jobs. Oh yes, and tackle some of the problems with Obamacare.

not saying who, tho….

It would at least demonstrate it doesn't matter who is at the helm if the inertia of the ship is on the wrong course.

...I'll be long dead as will my nephew's grandchildren (he's 7) before we see an openly gay president. I am not cynical, I am completely pessimistic. A female is more likely, but still a long shot. VP maybe. Ms. Clinton might be able to pull it off, but I don't know. There are too many homophobic liberals to allow for an openly gay president.

I don't care about gender, sexuality, race or if they once smoked pot.