Tim Kaine as VP? Please, just say "hell no!"

[rateyes]

http://www.ontheissues.org/Governor/Tim_Kaine_Abortion.htm

Kaine on abortion:

Promote abstinence; ban partial-birth abortion

I will reduce abortion in Virginia by enforcing current Virginia restrictions, passing an enforceable ban on partial-birth abortion, ensuring women’s access to health care (including legal contraception), and promoting abstinence-focused education and adoption. We should reduce abortion in this manner, rather than by criminalizing women and doctors.
Source: Campaign website www.kaine2005.org, “Issues” , Nov 8, 2005

Tim Kaine:
"I HAVE A FAITH BASED OPPOSITION TO ABORTION. " (caps mine).

[FSogol]

1. He has a 100% lifetime rating from Naral and Planned Parenthood.

That is in no way, "anti-abortion." His views are no different than Joe Biden's.

[lamp_shade]

2. ^^ This ^^

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Joe says his personal views don't motivate his policy views but he sure as shit voted for DOMA

citing his personal religious views as reason. Joe helped get DOMA passed. The way Joe tells it now, he's always been a champion of LGBT. He claims that he told his children we love just like others but he voted that we should be denied rights. So he is not very honest about his own actions and thus when folks like that say 'I am too ethical to let my personal views get in the way' I know they will let their personal views dictate and then they will just claim they did not.

They say 'I'm with you' then they vote against you then later they say 'I was always with you'. This is the pattern with the 'faith based' politicians.

[NewJeffCT]

8. I'm more against Tim Kaine because

he's a boring choice and did a crappy job as head of the DNC (see the 2010 election debacle...)

[RBInMaine]

3. This is single-issue hyperbole. Please think broader and deeper. Plus, he is Pro-CHOICE on policy.

[itsrobert]

6. No way.

We can do better.

[SheilaT]

7. Abstinence-focused education, whatever that may be in practice,

while probably not as stupid as abstinence-only, is still a crock. Young people need genuine information about sex, sexuality, reproduction, and birth control.

States that teach abstinence-only have the highest rates of unwed mothers and unwanted pregnancies.

Anti-choice people also seem to think that if they only outlaw abortion, then no woman will ever have one.

[rateyes]

9. Bingo!

[Pathwalker]

10. Hell No!

No anti-choice candidate, please.

[LynnTTT]

11. Martin O'Malley

If we're going to have boring let's go with O'Malley. Strong on gun control, death penalty and plays in a band!

[John Poet]

12. I'm Not with him.

[CobaltBlue]

13. 'Politico' has a good report…

@ http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/06/hillary-clinton-2016-vp-pick-tim-kaine-213997

(It was probably already posted.)

[mythology]

14. I wouldn't be a big fan of Kaine

While I don't think he would push to do away with abortion, I think abstinence focused sex ed is just dumb. And I'm not a fan of supporting coal power plants.

Clinton could do worse, but she could also do better.

[Snotcicles]

15. Thomas Perez would be a great choice. nt

[Chan790]

16. Hell No!

I'm not sure what the recent love affair is with Tim Kaine by center-left Democrats...he's not one of you, he's actually a conservative Democrat and well to the right of center as well as well to the right of Clinton...a Kaine selection literally reads as "I feel I'm going to lose and I need to do everything I can to get Republicans to cross the aisle for me." That's not the situation on the ground at-all...this election is Clinton's to lose; it's nearly a total structural EC defeat for Trump, meaning he almost has no EC path to victory.

Add into that the absolutely horrible job he did as party chairman...I mean DWS is bad at her job, but compared to Kaine she looks like Howard Dean. (Dean was great at that job.) Also, his out-of-line with the establishment of the Democratic party position on social issues and we have a real winner of a VP candidate. Kaine is by-far the worst Democrat to have their name in VP discussions since Joe Lieberman.

The only good thing about a Kaine selection is that McAuliffe will almost by default be forced to replace him with someone more-liberal because there aren't any prominent VA Democrats even as conservative as Kaine, let alone more conservative. Webb as a replacement Senator would be to the left of Kaine...and James Webb is unabashedly a conservative Democrat in his own right.

[spooky3]

17. I wonder why he rather than Mark Warner has been

The focus of VP speculation? Warner would bring the business background that might appeal to some.

Both Kaine and Warner are middle of the road types (Virginia outside of urban areas and college towns is still pretty red).

[Night Watchman]

18. I Doubt He'll be Chosen

He's got Virginia Pol Disease. Probably caught it from McDonnell.

[bigwillq]

19. Kaine's a bore

No, thanks.

But he is from a swing state, so not an awful choice in that regard.