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

[Ken Burch]

39. The loss in Virginia in 2009 was largely Kaine's fault

He recruited a terrible candidate and did nothing to fire up the base for the fight. That campaign proved that Kaine doesn't know how to win elections in Virginia anymore.

What Kaine SHOULD have done was to make the Virginia Dems, finally, into the party of Henry Howell, not keep them as the party of Chuck Robb and Doug Wilder. He should have been leading the fight to make a "New Virginia", not to make the Dems in his state almost as much of a party of the past as the Virginia 'Pugs are. 2009 and 2010 were the proof that "me-too" campaigning will never work for this party again.

And again, what's the use of having somebody sitting on our side of the aisle if he's going to vote against us almost all the time? Party identification isn't everything...I assume you wouldn't have said we were obligated to campaign for George Wallace if he'd won the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972. And the differences between Kaine and Wallace are trivial.