Alan Colmes Replacement Poll: Who Should It Be?

Now that Alan Colmes has decided to take his leave of Fox's Hannity And Colmes, who will replace him? Brian Stelter figures that it will be nobody, leaving Sean Hannity to go solo. But hope springs eternal over at Stelter's old stomping grounds, TV Newser. They've got a reader poll up, soliciting responses on possible replacements. Among the choices are the solo option, wooing Harold Ford, Jr. away from CNN, giving Al Franken a thorny place to land if the Minnesota Senate recount doesn't go his way, Susan Estrich (OMG, no, please!), Bob Beckel, and Kirsten Powers. Democratic strategist Peter Feld endorses his "articulate, liberal friend" Powers for the job, saying, "It will be an improvement." Why not? Powers is a columnist for the New York Post and a former contributor to the American Prospect, and is an Alaskan who can speak in complete sentences - even using the final "g" sound in gerunds!

Feld provides this clip of Powers causing Ann Coulter to have an emotional breakdown on the air all without doing anything more than being reasonable and speaking in an unraised voice.

What other within-the-realm-of-possibility personages would you like to see face off against Hannity?

Comments

[thankulord13]

I love the fact that someone shut that pain Ann Coulter down!

[walkaway]

"Meeka" Brzezinski! She has been practicing every day on Morning Joke.

[AirForceWx1701]

James Carville- now THAT would be entertaining. Or Bill Maher; it would be fun watching Hannity come t h a t close to a cerebral hemmorhage due to Bill's utter, unfettered contempt for him.

[progressivelady]

Elizabitch Hassllass of the View

[Sardonica]

Robert Gibbs.

[c-lupa]

It was fun watching Coulter get claustrophobic like that, but at the same time the two Democrats were kind of flat. I couldn't "feel" what they were saying. They need to shalax a bit on camera and ease into what they're saying, it sounded a bit jumpy underneath. We need a James Brown Democratic pundit to rock our worlds and carry us through what's happening. In bad times we're vulnerable to cult of personality, but quite frankly, that's what we need.

[HFR]

Bill Maher

[Plank]

With all the idiots on that channel, Joe the Plumber would be a natural fit.

[zitlight73]

How about Howard Stern? Hell,I might even watch that crap then.