Let's haver some fun with the VP nomination. Who would be your choice? Feel free to post the rationa

I agree it should be a white man from a swing state. That means Kelly, Cooper or Shapiro. No idea who among them is a good campaigner, their take on the issues, etc.

 

Shapiro is pretty freaking impressive. My wife wanted our college to give him an honorary degree when he was PA's AG and he chronicled the full extent of the Catholic church's role in the sex abuse cover up (naming the names of bishops). Alas, the president of the college didn't want to draw attention to the nutcases who think it's anti-Catholic to protect Catholic children from abuse, and their families from the fallout.

 

I want Whitmer, but Shapiro makes a lot of sense.

 

Shapiro seems like the smart pick IMHO. Beshear would be solid, but he would not flip Kentucky in a presidential election. Besides, I can't remember where I read this but he is aiming to take Mitch McConnell's seat in 2027. This would be a better move and he has a better shot at getting that seat. Shapiro could deliver Dems a big swing state. Shapiro has Appalachia running right through the state and he could provide the anti-JD Vance stance and potentially deliver Pa.

NC seems like a reach for Dems right now.

I like Gov Whitmer. She could deliver Michigan and has the chops to be on the national stage. But, and I hate to say this, two women on the ticket seems like a bad move. I hate even writing this out, but this is the United States and we rejected the most accomplished female politician in decades over a reality TV show host. I know that Hillary received more votes than Trump in 2016, but I don't think the US is ready for an all-female ticket.

 

For me, it's hard to distinguish the misogyny from the last name. She was a woman, yes, an accomplished woman. But she also shared a last name with an impeached, successful former president that was on the recieving end of the Newt machine for a decade.

 

Pete!

Because we need a fabulous ticket.

 

Who was Clinton VP pick?

I have been thinking for 5 minutes and can't remember.

I guess I could Google it.

 

Tim Kaine. I live in Virginia, and he was and still is the Va Sen, so it is an unfair question. I think Whitmer would mop the floor with JD Vance. The Kentuckian in me wants Beshear to stay in Kentucky. My heart says Whitmer, but my head says Shapiro. My stomach says I missed lunch.

 

I want Buttigieg for the reasons below, but also I want him as the same backup that Harris was for Biden and Biden was for Obama

You assassinate me - you get this...

 

Fun fact: My elementary school was at the corner of Clinton and Kane streets.

 

There's two things so far that are gonna be F-U-N to watch:

1) Kamala Harris gets a lot of hate from the left because she used to be a cop. Yeah, they're gonna have to vote for a former cop to if they don't want Trump. Sure, they *could* vote third-party, but that isn't a realistic choice. It'd be like voting for me in a car race when the realistic options are Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr.

2) I'm not sure the best way to paraphrase this next one, so yeah... here's the image:


I do think she has to go with a well-established centrist Dem. You gotta go for the middle swing voters. And yeah, sorry radical progressive leftists...I don't think it will be a minority LGBTQ athiest, whatever. It's probably gonna be a white male and you're gonna be upset, but it's better than the alternative.

 

So you're saying I don't have a shot at it?

 

I think it's not the time to invest in third party alternatives. In fact, I think the RFK campaign is going to whither away and die (like a brain worm).

 

A Black woman and a White woman?
A Black woman and a gay man?

Are y'all crazy?

Biden's choice of Kamala is already going to make this election more difficult than it needed to be. Now you want her to stir the damn pot even more than she already does with XX and skin color? Go for a garden variety White guy before your optimism gets Sounders killed, and probably me, DT, and Charlie.

 

Pete is also a veteran who deployed to Afghanistan (albeit, not in a combat unit).

 

Speaking of veterans... if you want to go whole hog on foreign policy... here's a guy that Clinton considered as her VP in 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Stavridis

 

If they want a ticket that would be quick-witted with snappy piercing one-liner comebacks, then, yeah, a black woman and a gay guy would be perfect - it would be very hard to beat that combination. Both groups have learned how to use language to their advantage.

One of the lines from Glee that I loved was: "Mercedes is black, I'm gay; we make culture" (see clip below). But this isn't a Glee re-boot. Lives are on the line.

 

Yeesh... I saw that as many days as not when I was teaching at failing schools. There's no way you would know this, but it's extremely counterproductive and not funny to me at all (the Black female part- I didn't see the gay part).

400 years of miseducation is a mofo.