Darrell Delamaide's Political Capital: Democrats have hard time finding anyone but Hillary to run

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) So now even Jerry Brown is starting to look good to Democrats, as the anyone but Hillary undercurrent continues to swell.

The 76-year-old governor of California wowed the politicos with his appearance on NBCs Meet the Press on Sunday. He was passionate, sharp and didnt speak in code.

This is Jerry Brown reaching the gold standard, former Democratic Congresswoman Jane Harman of California cooed on the program. Brown first took office as governor in 1975 and is now in his second stint as state chief executive.

Brown has so far deferred to Hillary Clinton as the presumptive Democratic nominee, though he told moderator Chuck Todd without hesitation on Sunday that he would be in the race if he were 10 years younger.

The flutter over Brown came in a week after Ezra Klein made the case in a widely noted Vox article for former Vice President Al Gore to run against Clinton, whose imminent announcement of her candidacy has forestalled any serious rivals.

And the Boston Globe devoted a package of editorials and op-eds over the weekend urging Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to step up and run against Clinton.

While many of Clintons defenders and a fair sprinkling of objective experts are maintaining that the brouhaha over her private emails and even over possible conflicts of interest in foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation will subside, there is a palpable fear in the party that the former secretary of state could be buried under her baggage.

In a week when Ted Cruz, a 44-year-old first-term senator no one had heard of four years ago, became the first Republican to officially throw his hat in the ring, Democrats seem obsessed with finding a political celebrity with nationwide name recognition to challenge Clinton.

The fact that all these wish candidates are, like Clinton herself, eligible for Medicare, does not seem to dent their enthusiasm.

Meanwhile, the Republicans are entertaining a wide field of potential candidates, with their entry in the dynastic sweepstakes, Jeb Bush, a youthful 62.

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