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Jonathan Herman would be my choice...

I like Darrell's answer, NONE!

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. Seems to be the only way to get a Republican Governor.

If that's the best that they can come up with then that explains why Maryland is in the position they are in now. Darrell's is the best answer so far.

Only two more years of the current tax and spend loser! Where has the time gone? Only seems like six years ago that the citizens of Maryland had two billion more dollars in their pockets. That is how much thie slime ball MOM and the rest of the losers of Annapolis have raised the taxes and fees of Mayland citizens, all in the name of "moving Maryland forward". This governor and democratic legislature are nothing but scum but then the bigger idiots (the voters) put them in now didn't they? Doesn't matter who comes in next, could do no worse then what we have now.

Anthony Brown, if not than Jim Smith or SRB.

Does it matter? Solid one party rule in Maryland.

Don't blame me - I didn't vote for any of them. But my vote never seems to make a difference in this state.

Tiffany Alston qualifies. Convicted of a crime while in office, bitching about being thrown out of her seat, corrupt. All the qualifications needed in Martyland.

Because of Baltimore city I'm sure another democrat will win... They don't have to work and still get money because of our wonderful governor.... Md is just like the rest of the country SCREWED..

The extremes have failed...seeking balance at any level...

STEALA Dixon!!!! Free gift cards for all (of her family members)!!!!

How long before Baltimore becomes Detroit under one party liberal rule for decades?

"only 54.3 percent of these — or 305,479 individuals — actually do participate in the labor force, meaning they either have a job or are looking for one.
Another 257,576 of Detroit residents age 16 or older — 45.7 percent of that demographic — do not participate in the labor force. They do not have a job, and they are not looking for one.

In fact, these 257,576 people in Detroit who do not have a job and are not looking for one outnumber the 224,846 residents who do have jobs. But of the 224,846 residents who do have jobs, 34,500 — or 15.3 percent — have jobs with the government. Thus, this city that boasted 1,849,568 residents in 1950 has only 190,346 private-sector workers today.

There are 264,209 households in Detroit, and 91,204 of them — or 34.5 percent — get food stamps.

Very few of the people who are staying out of the labor force in Detroit are staying out because they are stay-at-home moms with working husbands. Of the 264,209 households in Detroit, only 24,275 — or 9.2 percent — are married couple families with children under 18. Another 78,438 households — or 29.7 percent of the total — are "families" headed by women with no husband present. Of these, 43,742 have children under 18."
http://cnsnews.com/blog/terence-p-jeffrey/obamas-america-will-become-detroit

Jack Johnson or his wifey, they know how to get cash needed for the citizens!

Carl Snowden is another good choice. Or Larry Young.

ROTFLMAO What did anybody expect the Conservative News Service to say?

Nothing happens in a vacuum. There is a reason there is one party domination in Maryland. The MDGOP is in a shambles and they are incapable of fielding an acceptable candidate.

So, Franchot, the best Dem in the state, has opted out. Could Dutch be persuaded to give up Congress? Can't really think of anyone else I'd vote for - Dem or Rep. Jim Smith?

Apples and oranges. Baltimore isn't even close to becoming Detroit.

Seriously, does it matter who runs? I mean a puppet could win the governors seat in this state as long as he or she is a Dem, promises to "move Maryland forward" and gets O'malleys endorsement.

Wow so many bad choices,I'll get back to you

Can we please have an intelligent conversation with polite dissent? Personal vituperative comment is not a reasoned argument. I'm don't know what's more discouraging, Maryland politics, or the state of our discourse.

Mary Pat Clarke

I don't live in cave. I just don't like talking like a caveman.

Isn't that like picking the smartest kid in special ed?

MMZ,
MARY PAT CLARKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! UGHHHHHHHHHHHH. That would be as bad as KKT. And not DUTCH either, he is too busy being an Afghan commando. How about somebody who hasn't sucked from the public trough for their entire adult life, someone with some business knowledge who would do something about creating private and not public jobs for Maryland, but silly me, after all this is dumb democratic Maryland.

I have thought long and hard about who should even be considered to run for governor and I'm at a total loss as Peter Franchot has decided not to run for the position. The Democratic party here in Maryland will be hard pressed in finding a viable candidate that will truly work for the good of the citizenry of Maryland that aren't outright liars or thieves. Too many of todays politicians are only interested in what will benefit them and not the people who put them in office.

This would be a great opening for the Republicans... if there was a Republican party in this state.

How about Ulman from Howard County. That way I won't have to make that tough decision about what I want to drink.

I would say Randy "Macho Man" Savage, but he has passed away. Perhaps either Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka or Hulk Hogan, if O'Malley can get them as Maryland residents. Why you ask? Under the policies of President Bush of sending kids off to war to face horrific injuries without paying for it and President Obama, whose policies have almost finished off the country, we are hanging by a thred. O'Malley has done his part to the working people in Maryland. He has applied many swinging neck breakers, suplexes, hit us with foreign objects, but has no finishing move. He can get Hogan or Snuka and tag out to them. Hogan drop the big boot on us or Snuka can climb to the top rope and hit us with the flying headbutt. The results will be the same, 1, 2, 3, its all over for the working people of Maryland.

not a dem but Steele should run

The Democrat candidate, and of course the winner of the election, will be the candidate the Democrat machine selects. The likely candidate will be Lt. Governor Brown. He was selected as Lt. Governor because he was a presentable black man from PG county.

I'm wondering what MOM has on Peter Franchot? Did the state Dems give him a big payout? I'd have voted for Franchot

Franchot was and still is a liberal, but after he became Comptroller he had a real chance to see how wasteful the ever taxing dems really are. I don't know why he decided not to run that was his choice. I do know that the citizens of Maryland will NOT be well served by whoever the dems put up because they are all only worried about party and what is good for it and not what is good for ALL citizens of Maryland.

Heather Mizeur, a voice for Progressives, and a brain for Maryland.

Puh-leeze, Steve. It doesn't matter whether MOM is running or not. Doesn't mean can't influence others.

Understand something people, Maryland been just a waystation for MOM, something to fill his time while he dreams of that little white house 30 miles to the south. He has spent the last two years running around the country, getting face time on tv as president of the democrat governors assoc. or whatever, all for the purpose of gaining the holy grail, to be called MR. PRESIDENT. I'm sure somewhere he has hidden a mustle tee shirt that says "MR. PRESIDENT" and he sleeps with a doll dressed the same way. Except for taxing the hell out of the citizens of Maryland, similar to what his hero BOB wants to do at the national level, he has long left the best interest of Maryland citizens in the rear view mirror.

Reader, you are absolutely right and by the way, I have seen the work of MOM over the years, and I can't think of a time when he honestly had the best interest of Maryland citizens. Seems to me that MOM has always been interested in MOM. Maryland government is such a joke and if I could, I would move far away from this corrupt, greedy place.

MOM is a scumbag and cares only about himself and not the citizens of this state. Honestly I do not have anything nice to say about this clown and would spit in his face if given the chance. Moved here from PA last yr and it was the worst decision I ever made...needless to say I'm looking to move back to PA soon. The citizens of this state who have been robbed of their hard earned money via ridiculous taxes from this f#ckface should drag him into the middle of downtown Annapolis and give him a well deserved beatdown...I know I'd be the first one to take a swing haha (I heard o'dipshit likes to fight people lol). Time to weed the garden in Annapolis...