Vice President

[Boxlicker101]

I would vote for either VP candidate for POTUS in preference to either Silly Hilly or the Donald. It's not that I know enough about the VP candidate, it is that I do know enough about the other two to know I have nothing but disdain for them.

 

[sr71plt]

I would vote for either VP candidate for POTUS in preference to either Silly Hilly or the Donald. It's not that I know enough about the VP candidate, it is that I do know enough about the other two to know I have nothing but disdain for them.

That's not your choice. Why spin wheels on it? I can't say I could stomach Trump's vice president pick as much as I could Trump who isn't really either a Republican or a conservative--and is so crazy that whether or not the Republicans or Democrats control Congress, they'd pin him up in the White House probably even more than they have Obama.

 

[JackLuis]

If only. And to be honest, I almost picked Deval Patrick, and I don't know that the Clinton people ever considered him.

But Democrats in particular like to choose sitting senators for veep (I think the only exceptions in my lifetime are Geraldine Ferraro and Sargent Shriver, and McGovern originally wanted a senator instead of Shriver). Once you eliminate senators whose seats would be vulnerable to a GOP governor, all women Dem senators (it never made sense Hillary would take that risk), and certain others for various reasons (Leahy is too old, Menendez's ethics are lousy, etc), there weren't many names left.

Kaine basically feels like someone who was born to be a vice president.

I chuckled at this thinking, "Yeah, like Harry Truman?"

 

[RUlookingup]

Yaaaaaaaawn. Put on your Mom jeans.

 

[Liar]

Kaine basically feels like someone who was born to be a vice president.

He's pretty much Biden 2.0. Non controversial, experienced, well liked in Washington and considered a Really Nice Guy.

Remains to be seen if he has Uncle Joe's swagger.

 

[phrodeau]

He's pretty much Biden 2.0. Non controversial, experienced, well liked in Washington and considered a Really Nice Guy.

Remains to be seen if he has Uncle Joe's swagger.

Sounds like an actual politician.

 

[xby2]

You are right

Tim Kaine.

* From a swing state
* From a state with a Democratic governor (so his Senate seat wouldn't be lost)
* Ideologically compatible
* Inoffensive, no known quirks or drawbacks, has no chance of being a Cheney-like power-grabber or otherwise overshadowing a president
* And yes, male (plenty of qualified women on the Democratic side, but I am assuming there would never be a two-woman ticket)

You got it very right.
Congratulations

 

[BotanyBoy]

Lame, if she were being honest she would have chosen a Sachs exec or a Saudi prince.

Either one would have made her a rock star.

 

[sr71plt]

He's pretty much Biden 2.0. Non controversial, experienced, well liked in Washington and considered a Really Nice Guy.

Remains to be seen if he has Uncle Joe's swagger.

No, he doesn't have Joe's swagger. He also, though, thinks before he speaks. Joe doesn't always do that.

 

[Liar]

No, he doesn't have Joe's swagger. He also, though, thinks before he speaks. Joe doesn't always do that.

Boooooring.

Which, I assume, is the point.

 

[sr71plt]

Boooooring.

Which, I assume, is the point.

Well, yes, what you need in a statesman isn't the same as what you need in a TV game show host, even though a large segment of the American electorate doesn't seem to understand that.

That said, I don't think of Kaine as presidential timber, but then I don't see that in Joe Biden either--both pretty much on the mark for the vice president slot, though.

 

[patient1]

Lame, if she were being honest she would have chosen a Sachs exec or a Saudi prince.

Either one would have made her a rock star.

Made me chuckle.

 

[underguy1]

He's pretty much Biden 2.0. Non controversial, experienced, well liked in Washington and considered a Really Nice Guy.

Remains to be seen if he has Uncle Joe's swagger.

Joe Biden the regime changer? Joe Biden, the writer of the Patriot Act? Joe Biden who got his son on the board of a pirate Ukrainian fracking operation after the coup?

That nice guy?