Tim Kaine still mentioned as a Veep Candidate
In Chuck Todd’s most recent column, Gov. Tim Kaine still gets mentioned as a “comfort” vice presidential pick for Barack Obama.
For Obama, a comfort pick would be Tim Kaine, Kathleen Sebelius or even Jack Reed. All three could bring a little something to the ticket. But we in the media like to focus more on what each would not bring, and what could make these picks potentially treacherous.
For Kaine, that “treacherous” landscape probably has been his ineffectiveness as governor in creating compromise and consensus around a transportation plan.
So, since everyone else is having fun speculating, we might as well too: from a Virginian’s perspective, who makes sense to be the VP pick for either party? What potential VP candidate best represents the issues you care the most about? And, how will that help the presidential nominee?
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For Democrats, I think Sam Nunn, Bob Graham, or Kathy Sebelius would all be top picks, and I’m surprised the first two in particular don’t get more consideration.
For Republicans, the best political pick and the best pick on the issues for me is Mike Pence. He would also energize the activist base of the party who has been securely behind him for the last few years.
I would LOVE Tim Kaine to be on the Dems ticket. Imagine the money Bill Bolling could raise in the next 6 months!
Kaine will be on the short list, to be shore… Interestingly enough so will Ohio’s Ted Strickland… WHy? Popular gov who was a Hillary fan… a way to get Hillary supporters on board and get a popular Dem Gov.
I still would kinda like to see an Obama/Bredesen ticket myself. Bredesen strikes me as more of a technocrat than an idealist, something that i’d like to see on the ticket. However, that is rather short sighted, as i don’t think he’d be strong top-ticket material in 2016.