GOP: Kaine is too moderate

[David Horn]

(07-24-2016, 09:03 PM)playwrite Wrote:

(07-24-2016, 03:35 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:

(07-24-2016, 11:26 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I think Hillary had personal personality reasons for choosing Kaine; I heard that she thought Gore was too interfering. She likes things to run smooth and people around her who won't rock her boat too much. Warren might have been bothering her all the time with disagreements and her own agenda. Clinton and Kaine are very compatible with each other. But the VP pick is not necessarily any more important than cabinet and advisor choices. Trump left the moderate field open with HIS choice, so she is filling it. Let's see if she goes any further left than Obama and Bill Clinton did for those other positions, or whether she sinks back into their more neo-liberal type of picks.

Clinton would have been foolish to pick Warren for this reason:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Baker.  GOP governor picking Warren's replacement for the Senate.  Same issue with Cory Booker.

Correct, and on top of that Warren will be much more able to pursue her own agenda as Chair of Senate Finance.  Her dragging up Wall Street critters to hearings is going to make the Benghazi hearings look like camp fire singalongs. The same is true of Bernie Sanders.

And this time, there will not be a 1st-timer President in the White House telling them instead to play nice, be bipartisan and seek compromise; there will be a clear-eye, revengeful she-devil there and I mean that as a huge complement.

You are way too optimistic on this.  Hillary triangulates in her sleep, just like Bill.  If she didn't, Michael Bloomberg would never have offered a helping hand.  I might feel different if I saw a full-court press to elect Dems to the House, but I don't.  Getting a Dem Senate is weak tea ... except for the SCOTUS of course, but the money bills originate in the House.  The TPers still seem destined to hold sway there. 

In other words, there will be no real movement, but Hillary will get the blame.  That seems ideal for the GOPpers, who don't want Trump, but don't want Hillary to succeed either.  Like everyone else, they want to win in 2020, when it really counts.