Tim Kaine Auditions as Hillary Clinton's VP, Slams Donald Trump

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Source: abc


By JESSICA HOPPER
Liz Kreutz
Josh Haskell

Jul 14, 2016, 5:46 PM ET





PHOTO: Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Sen. Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, wave during a campaign rally at Ernst Community Cultural Center in Annandale, Virginia, July 14, 2016.Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images


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"We were ready for Hillary because Hillary's ready for us. Hillary's ready for Virginia. Hillary's ready to be president. Hillary's ready to be our leader. Hillary's ready to make history. And that's why we're ready for Hillary," Kaine said to the cheering crowd in Annandale, Virginia.



"I appreciate so much the leadership that he has shown for this state and now he is doing the same in Congress," said Clinton of Kaine. ...............................


While Kaine praised Clinton, he painted Trump as the ultimate "trash talker" and someone who would be a "you're fired" president. He called Clinton a "bridge builder" and a "you're hired" president.

"So you want the trash talker? What about the bridge builder? What about the bridge builder who served on the Armed Services Committee and worked to make us strong and worked to respect troops and worked to build up and support military families and worked to build alliances and our nation is better as a result," said Kaine. .............................

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Some Human Told Hillary Clinton It Would Be a Good Idea to Say “Pokemon Go to the Polls"

By Jim Newell


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Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine walk into a bar, boy are their arms tired!

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Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine is not an exciting speaker. Neither is Hillary Clinton. Neither of them are very clever or able to deliver strong "zingers." This doesn't mean that Hillary Clinton shouldn't be president, or that she shouldn't pick Tim Kaine as her running mate. They have other qualities! But neither Tim Kaine nor Hillary Clinton really has "lines."

OR DO THEY?


Sahil Kapur ?@sahilkapur 14h14 hours ago

Tim Kaine brought lines to this Hillary rally: "Do you want a ‘you’re fired’ president or a ‘you’re hired’ president?"


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Clinton is hosting a joint rally with Kaine in Northern Virginia today, presumably as a VP tryout for the reliably boring Virginian. Your trusty Slate correspondent (me) chose not to go because he thought it would be sort of terrible. Instead, it was... well...

A solid set for the NoVa suburban dad demo. But the master is still the master:




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African Fighter ?@Africanfighter 13h13 hours ago

@ABCPolitics Look at all those young Millenials in the crowd!! #ImWithHer #StrongerTogether


Look at Kaine, just dying over that, near wingspan-length clapping; Clinton nodding like she just bought the place and you can all pop off if you don't like it. She knows it, oh she knows it.

[BlueMTexpat]

1. Hillary looks great

campaigning with anyone! She makes them look good too!

I am so proud that she is our candidate!

[forest444]

17. She does. Being a grandmother suits her perfectly, brings out her warm qualities.

Voters need that in these trying times.

[Android3.14]

2. Hmmmmmm.

We need more oooomph than Mr. Kaine.

[Lean]

3. Kaine is a Weak Choice

...and a safe choice. He is a Blue-Dog, Republican lite, just like Hillary. Does not inspire enthusiasm with the masses.

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. Agreed. Is this serious? Talk about new voters deciding to sleep in on election day.

[phylny]

7. He's not exciting, but he's experienced.

He's been a mayor, governor, and now a senator. He knows how to run a government, which is the requirement for any vice president. He's also from Virginia, a sometimes purple state.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. He's got lots of experience bad mouthing LGBT and hindering our rights, odd that in a

cycle when Democrats are wanting to contrast themselves from Trump's bigotry they are so casually eager to name a VP who has traded in the same sort of bigotry and division.

Would you all dig a candidate who 'used to' trash talk another minority group? No. DU would raise it's back and go insane with fury if Kaine's words had been about any other minority group. Speaks volumes.

[Fast Walker 52]

19. ughh, oh no

have any specific examples? I need to see what we're dealing with.

[phylny]

21. You can read through this.

He's "evolved," not unlike many of today's Democrats.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Tim_Kaine.htm

[Fast Walker 52]

22. thanks

[BigDemVoter]

20. He's more conservative than she is

She should be choosing somebody who is MORE liberal.

[Fast Walker 52]

23. but that would appealing to us silly liberals and the Dem base, not the great centrist middle

[IronLionZion]

5. They should keep pokemon at polling places

anything to help encourage turnout

[Iggo]

10. Yep, an exclusively special kind of pokey-man...

...that you can only get if you're registered to vote and you're checked in at your polling place.

I'm really only half kidding...lol.

[ginnyinWI]

6. My Republican niece, age 25

Says she doesn't like either of them and just might stay home and not vote.

[phylny]

8. Good. Encourage her to do so. n/t

[IronLionZion]

11. Good, because then downticket republicans in congress won't get the votes

[Vote2016]

9. We can - and MUST - do better than Kaine, who is a weak moderate status quo choice.

[Wounded Bear]

12. Watched a bit of that...

I think I see now why he has never made the cut, even though his name seems to come up every cycle lately.

Not real inspiring, but maybe that's the point.

[hamsterjill]

14. Sigh. I was just hoping for someone better.

I love Hillary, but I was simply hoping for someone better as her VP choice. Of course, I'll respect her decision, but this guy just does nothing for me.

[Curtis]

15. Julian Castro

Is a much better choice. I've been saying that for over a year and hope she makes that choice

[stuffmatters]

16. Franken, Brown, Warren, Merkley

Pick somebody who actually stands for something instead of Kaine, who would just double down on Clinton's biggest problem, the perception that she's a Wall Street tool.

Kaine brings zero to the ticket. As ur-stupid as Pence is, at least he counterbalances a few of the negative perceptions of Trump.
Kaine just exaggerates Hillary's negatives.

[snooper2]

18. That top pic of him reminded me of Jack Nicholson in the Shining