As this guy says in the Washington Post, the idea of a Convention selecting an unknown delegate would electrify the country and give it the greatest summertime reality show in half a century:

I'm not sure that would be a very good reality show for the Democrats. Let's compress a primary season worth of intramural mud slinging into a few days. It would probably make "Housewives" look tame.

Then who is the "miracle" candidate who will figuratively slay the Trump dragon?

I can quickly come up with a list of who it's not:

Hillary Clinton
Kamala Harris
Adam Schiff
Michelle Obama
Nancy Pelosi

Nothing against any of them - they'd all make (or would have made had age not caught up with them) good Presidents.

How about some out of the box candidates. I'll name two and you figure what box they're out of.

Adam Kinzinger
Liz Cheney

Would I be happy with all of their policies? Certainly not. Could they peel off enough votes from disgruntled Republicans to win? Absolutely. Will they energize voters to pick more traditional Democrats in down ballot races? Maybe.

If making sure Trump doesn't win is the goal, perhaps a genuine Hail Mary really IS called for.

--Peter