Which Gubernatorial candidates will be potential presidential candidates?

[Deano963]

I have gut feeling that O'Malley is going to be a failure as Governor as he was the Mayor of the city of Baltimore, which seems to have gotten much worse under his management

Wow you know absolutely nothing about O'Malley and Baltimore.

Baltimore, if anything, got better under O'Malley, not worse. Please tell me you did not base your statement that the city got worse on Ehrlich campaign ads?

[Jake]

Baltimore went from 1 on a scale of 1-10 to about a 4. Give O'Malley at least some credit.

To answer the question, Strickland (OH), Pawlenty (MN), and Richardson (NM) are the best bets.

[Kevin]

I have gut feeling that O'Malley is going to be a failure as Governor as he was the Mayor of the city of Baltimore, which seems to have gotten much worse under his management

Wow you know absolutely nothing about O'Malley and Baltimore.

Baltimore, if anything, got better under O'Malley, not worse. Please tell me you did not base your statement that the city got worse on Ehrlich campaign ads?

I remember going to Baltimore many times when I was younger and the city looked pretty bad and crime ridden then. However when I went back there this summer with my church for a religious convention that in the water front area, on our way there I went through areas of Baltimore that looked more like bombed out World War II Dresden or 1983 Beriut rather then an average American city, In matter of fact it looked so run down that I turned to my church consulor and asked he if I was in America or some foreign third world nation. I have a vivid memeroy and I can tell you Baltimore looks a lot worse now then it did ever before.     

[Moooooo]

Baltimore went from 1 on a scale of 1-10 to about a 4. Give O'Malley at least some credit.

I agree with that statement, but the catch is, God himself couldn’t push Baltimore over a 5/5.5 

Like I said before, O’Malley was far from perfect, but overall I think he was above average and when compared to his predecessors he was well above average.

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A lot of his problems stemmed from conflict with other elected officials.  Obviously, Ehrlich anticipating O’Malley’s run for Governor played a role in some of the City’s mishaps.  For instance, O’Malley brought in a hard-nosed Police Commissioner from NYC (Ed Norris) and as soon as crime started to drop as a result of Norris’ policing philosophies; Ehrlich snatched Norris up and appointed him head of the MD State Police.

An even bigger problem was Baltimore City State’s Attorney and complete O’Malley hater -- Pat Jessamy.  She believes in the ‘treat the criminal’ mentality rather than locking them up and punishing them.  O'Malley and Jessamy have butted heads for years and in a city with an enormous crime problem, a State's Attorney and Mayor who hate each = recipe for disaster.

[DownWithTheLeft]

And mentioned not once, was Sarah Palin

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SPITZER 2012

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And mentioned not once, was Sarah Palin

I still don't see her as a "potential presidential candidate" by any stretch

[JohnnyLongtorso]

And mentioned not once, was Sarah Palin

Well, to be fair, John McCain doesn't use the Internet.