In an ideal liberal world, this nation would wake up tommorrow and see the light. The Revolution would be upon us and we'd sweep the White House clean with recall elections and protests in the streets and flowers and rainbows and...
But we live in the real world. Just as there are diehard Democrates, there are many diehard Republicans. If your Senator eats kittens for breakfast, the diehard will vote for him so long as the RNC (or DNC) gives the nod and smile. Breaking a person - much less a state - of this mentality is hard and no mean feat. However, that does not mean this person is lost. There are divides among Democrates and Republicans alike. Some Democrates (like Zell Miller) look more conservative than their Republican counterparts. Some Republicans (like John McCain) have a surprisingly liberal attitude.
This is one part exercise in open-mindedness and one part recognition of reality. The goal is to remind us that politicans are people too, not just organs in some grand biological party-created monstrocity. And it is to remind us that there are people we can all agree or disagree with regardless of party line. Pope Benedict XVI, Tony Blair, Vladhmir Putin, Kofi Annan. These are not Democrates or Republicans, but they are people we continue to have opinions on. Alan Greenspan, Shane Ross, and Ross Perot all seem to stand outside the political spectrum we've grown up within.
Regardless, it is the duty of the ideologue to promote the ideology, not just the posterboy party. Therefore, I'd like to round up a list of names - local names or national figures, politicians or prolitariate - who meet the criterion of "Non-Democrates you'd honestly vote for".