Tim Kaine splits with Obama on birth control rule for religious groups

[Ken Burch]

37. First, Casey wasn't the ONLY Dem who could possibly have beaten Santorum...

Any Dem with a strong, active campaign could've done that.

Second, Kaine is SHARPLY to the right of Casey-from what I've heard, he doesn't have any NON-conservative opinions. He's pro-globalization, pro-massive war budget, pro-domestic austerity, pro-military interventions everywhere, pro-nuclear power, and anti-labor. If you take the GOP position on all that...doesn't that pretty much leave nothing else at all? At least Casey is strongly pro-labor and fairly green.

It's trivial to just be slightly pro-environment and be slightly pro-civil rights(but opposed to affirmative action) if you're right-wing on all of the above.

It simply doesn't do us any good to settle for defeating the worst of the worst, if we have to nominate the just-barely better to do it. We have a right to expect more from EVERY candidate than nominal party identification. It's worth nothing to have somebody sitting as a Dem who votes against us most of the time, as Kaine is going to.

Besides, Obama CARRIED Virginia in 2008, so that, by itself, proves that we don't have to nominate a Dem who hates what this party stands for to win.

And, if nothing else, why should this party ever give Kaine another chance to do anything after his total and complete failure as DNC chair?