The "Tim Kaine would be a great VP" Roll Call Is Here!

[Colobo]

If you think Tim Kaine would be a great VP, please let us know. :)

[Windy]

1. I would have preferred Webb, Clark or Biden

I don't really know much about Kaine. He seems a bit conservative. I actually sympathize with his stance on abortion and believe that he would not attempt to make it criminal and that he believes in separation of church and state. However, I just read something about his stance on embryonic stem cell research which is a bit troubling.

[hlthe2b]

2. no idea... VIrginians?

[LostinVA]

9. No

[mcctatas]

3. Not my first choice...

but not my last either, so I'm all good:)

[sandnsea]

4. We won't get Kerry or Feingold or Boxer

so Tim Kaine is as good as any of the rest of them.

[saltpoint]

5. Kaine is a very strong pick. His virtues make a long list and his

selection would make McCain's choice of Pawlenty or Romney look even worse than it already might.

Kaine is the choice of his state's voters and remains very popular in a state we want to take from the Republicans in November.

I think he is owed a greater courtesy than he has been shown by some on these boards in the last 48 hours or so.

[hiaasenrocks]

6. 100% on board with that ticket.

[ram2008]

7. Same

Although I personally think Sebelius would be the best, Kaine is great too.

[Flying Dream Blues]

8. After doing some research, I'm definitely on board with this if this is Obama's choice.

But let me also say, I trust the man, so even if I hadn't been pleased I would've figured I just didn't know any better. :)

[depakid]

10. A one term governor and mayor

and another law professor.

That would leave a lot of people shaking their heads....

Except of course, the rumor mongers at Politco- who DUers seem so fond of reading, despite their far right bent.

[PresidentObama]

11. Indeed he would.

[Resuscitated Ethics]

Kaine's career spanning transparency a big plus and a rarity

he is an open book. In the VP office the cheney stench wouldn't stand a chance,

Honesty!

[elocs]

12. Is Kaine the VP pick de jour? Who will it be tomorrow?

Or the day after that, or the day after that...? I bet Obama knows right now, and he ain't telling, yet.

[salonghorn70]

13. I Probably Favor Bayh By An Eyelash

But I do think Kaine would be outstanding. By the way, all the others would be great too (all of the other Democrats, that is).

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

14. AMEN!! Biden for Sec. of State.

[jefferson_dem]

15. Not my first choice... He was my second -- right behind fellow Virginian Senator Webb.

If it happens, Kaine will prove to be a stellar choice and a fine VP.

[NYC_SKP]

16. Not a bad choice, but not my first.

And what the hell is up with the rash of anti-Kaine posts by, IMO, members waiting for Pizza?

Was there a meeting?

woof.

[DJ13]

17. He's a good choice, but the wrong choice for Obama

Obama already has to deal with a level of distrust among independents (and some DLC types) because they "dont know who he is".

Obama needs a well known person to be his VP choice.

Someone who wont become a distraction because the MSM keeps ignoring everything else to pick apart his backround.

Biden, Richardson, Clark, all good.

Kaine, bad choice.

[Awsi Dooger]

18. "I think I can be most helpful in Virginia"

Bravo. No peripheral deflective crap. Kaine knows his role and Obama is correct to artificially influence a vital state like that via VP.

Watch Obama's market price soar if he identifies Kaine. Normally a VP pick has zero impact in that regard. But in this case Obama goes above 70% on Intrade, if not immediately then when the new Virginia polls are released.

I love the pick if it's Kaine. Last year I laughed like hell when Chris Bowers posted on MyDD (before bolting) that it was wrong to try to fool voters in a specific state or region from the VP slot. What a dope. I guess he would have been annoyed if Gore had won Florida 2000 due to Bob Graham at VP. Look what that would have prevented. A pick like this does more to bolster 270 likelihood than millions of dollars or netroots threads.

[KittyWampus]

22. Pointing an arrow to your astute post.

[Thrill]

19. He;s my first choice. Montana Governor second, and the Biden

[bullwinkle428]

20. Well...I guess I'll breathe a sigh of relief that it's not Nunn.

Give me a few years before I ascribe greatness...

[femmocrat]

21. It doesn't much matter what we think....

it's not our choice, afterall.

But.... he doesn't really excite me. Of the "top three", I preferred Biden. I guess I wanted someone who was more well-known.
Richardson was actually my first choice way back when he endorsed Obama.

[Pryderi]

23. No. Don't pull any dem out of office. Obama-Clark 2008

[grantcart]

24. Despite what others may think I don't know

But I sure as hell don't like the way that he is attacked unfairly.



The more I dig the more I like him.



In the end whoever Obama selects is fine with me including Clinton.



I like to think that he will help VA/OH/IN/PA/NC

and with his Spanish FL and TX

[Pryderi]

25. No. Don't pull any dem out of office. Obama-Clark 2008

[Skittles]

26. NO NO NO NO NO

absolutely not

[Douglas Carpenter]

27. I would be neither pleased or displeased. but greatly relieved that it is not a neocon nut like Bayh

If one of these nuts ends up influencing American foreign policy, hope for peace in the Middle East are dashed and the likelihood of new imperial wars in the Middle East are dramatically escalated.

If America finds itself going down this road, the the direct and indirect human suffering caused by this lunacy is more than anything we can ever imagine and the current mess we are in will look like a Sunday school picnic. And we can rest assured that with a wrecked economy caused by stratospheric oil prices, and a bankrupted budget deficit caused by un-winnable and intractable conflict will so massively exceed anything we have already seen even under Bush and Cheney - there will be nothing left for social and infrastructure improvements to move our country forward.

PLEASE,PLEASE!!for the sake of humanity-for the sake of the peace of world-A.B.B. ANYBODY BUT BAYH!!

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/bayh_as_veep_he_cochaired_wing.php

"In 2003, Bayh was an honorary co-chair of the neocon pro-war Committee for the Liberation of Iraq -- a group he joined along with none other than John McCain and Joe Lieberman, according to a press release from during the run-up to the invasion.

Check this out, from the group's press release on February 14th, 2003 (via Nexis):

The Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI) is pleased to welcome Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) as an Honorary Co-Chairman. Bayh becomes the third U.S. Senator to join the committee after Sens. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) announced their participation on January 28.

The Committee is a neo-con group that was formed to propagandize the country into war. It boasted such illustrious neocon members as Bill Kristol, former CIA director James Woolsey, and even McCain senior foreign policy adviser and Chalabi-bamboozler Randy Scheunemann, whom Josh has been blogging about.

Bayh would, to put it very charitably, muddle Obama's message. It's true that Bayh was said to have subsequently removed himself from the group. But Obama's campaign is partly about -- and rightly so -- the judgment he made, and others didn't, in the run-up to the invasion.

The McCain campaign and the Repubs would have a grand time mocking the choice. Indeed, the McCain camp is already trying to make an issue of Bayh's past."."