Brian Schweitzer is the current Democratic Governor of Montana and someone to watch out for in 2016. He is a pro-gun Democrat who has done very well in a Republican state. He seems to me as a guy who could do very well in a general election. He probably plays well with a lot of constituencies that Democrats generally struggle with. I think for the Republicans to beat someone like this they would be best off running a socially liberal fiscal conservative who could do well in California and New York(probably someone who has similar beliefs to Arnold or Bloomberg. I am not sure that is something Republicans would want to do but there was in talk in both 96 and 2000 of Colin Powell running for president.
Schweitzer is also pretty pro-environment and speaks fluent Arabic (from spending time working in Libya and Saudi Arabia). He stance is not really that clear on many of the other issues. He also is going to be heading the Democratic Governor's Association for the 2010 (and maybe 2012) elections. Come 2016, there may be some Democratic governors who owe him some favors and that could come in handy when running for president.
I've put up three videos of Schweitzer. The first is one of his campaign ads from the 2008 election. I think it would be hard for anyone to say that he is going to be taking anyone's guns away. He was even endorsed by the NRA. He apparently had a pretty prominent pro-gun ad in his 2004 election. The second is his speech from the 2008 Democratic Convention and it was fairly well received. And the last is a good interview with Schweitzer on Charlie Rose. He seems like he understands the Middle East pretty well and I was pretty impressed with him on the issues that he discussed. I disagree with him on free trade though I think. Though he did say that he could support Mitt Romney.
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