How would you feel about Hillary as a running mate?

[fbc]

I'm not a huge Hillary Clinton fan, but she does have a lot of name recognition and seems to be fairly popular with some democrats. Would she make a good running mate for Bernie Sanders, a sort of "unify the party" deal after the primaries? I bet she would be up for it since being VP to a 73 year old president might be her best shot at the presidency.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I kind of doubt she'd want it if she lost the primaries.

[Kalidurga]

2. nope

[restorefreedom]

3. absolutely not

plus i doubt she would want to be second banana to bernie

[TM99]

4. If we are concerned about 'optics'

then Barbara Lee is a far better choice.

Not only is she a slightly younger black female, AND she is also an amazing progressive who has worked with Sanders again and again.

That is my dream ticket!

[JDPriestly]

15. Would you please post a really complete bio of Barbara Lee for DUers.

I remember things she has done that I like, but it would probably be easier for you to work up a really good list than for me to try to do it because I don't know as much about her as I would like to. I know she voted against the Iraq War. Did she also vote against Bush II as president?

[TM99]

17. Well, honestly,

there is a decent bio on Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Lee

Notably she has been a chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and a co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

She voted nay on both AUMF's. She is staunchly anti-war and has voted against military action and military appropriations with regards to Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Libya.

She is against the death penalty, strong on housing and social work, and yes, in 2004, she voted to not count the electoral votes from Ohio.

I have a great deal of respect for Ms. Lee. I had the pleasure of meeting her in DC while visiting siblings who are government employes. She is intelligent, friendly, strong on economic AND social justice, and a progressive through in through. She is definitely NOT a neo-liberal Third Way'er.

Here is her official website -- https://lee.house.gov/

[JDPriestly]

31. Thanks.

[Le Taz Hot]

21. OK, GMTA

I was wondering the other day who would be a good running mate for Bernie and that's the exact name I came up with. Barbara Lee would be a PERFECT choice.

[CrispyQ]

27. She would be a fab pick!

[swilton]

33. +

No more Clintons - untrustworthy and unable to reconcile neo-liberal policies with Sanders' democratic socialism.

[HooptieWagon]

5. Hell NO!

Anyway, neither would go for such an arrangement. Bernie is capable of picking his running mate when the time comes. He doesn't need our help.

[eridani]

6. Someone who is 73 needs a younger VP n/t

[Admiral Loinpresser]

18. +1 n/t

[SheilaT]

7. No. If Bernie gets the nomination, which I sincerely hope happens,

there is no way Hillary Clinton will take the number two spot.

Bernie will select someone who is much closer to him ideologically. Elizabeth Warren, maybe, but this far out it's quite silly to be speculating on anyone's v-p choice.

[SusanaMontana41]

16. I agree. WHy would he want her?

[Scootaloo]

8. I'm indifferent. But if Obama didn't pick her, I don't know why Sanders would.

[MuseRider]

9. I can't see either one of them

in the circumstance as vice. They are world's apart, thank goodness.

[SamKnause]

10. No

[aspirant]

11. What would Bill be called

if Hillary is VP, Second .........?

[Maedhros]

12. I do not want Hillary anywhere near the White House, in any capacity, ever. [n/t]

[Paka]

13. NO!

A thousand times over. Not a good team.

[JDPriestly]

14. No. Hillary would not be a good match for Bernie.

Bernie needs a vice president that Wall Street does not one.

One thing we learned with JFK is that a presidential candidate needs to choose a VP candidate that the right-wing nuts won't prefer.

The VP needs to be viewed, since Kennedy, as an insurance policy for the president.

Sad but true.

The Wall Street and right-wing crowd would prefer Hillary to Bernie. Therefore they are not a good match.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

19. I'd find it horrible in terms of wanting primary Bernie voters to vote for him in the general.

You'd immediately turn off any of the new voters he'd brought to the voting booths, who we see him as selling out to the establishment.

[Le Taz Hot]

20. Nope.

Ideologically they couldn't be farther apart. It would be Gore and Lieberman all over again. She would LOSE him votes.

[MissDeeds]

22. Agreed

She is the antithesis of Bernie and what he stands for. I can't imagine him sharing the ticket with a corporatist war hawk.

[winter is coming]

23. No, thanks. n/t

[daleanime]

24. no

[polichick]

25. Her corporate ties are what we're running against...

Clinton I, Obama, Clinton II = administrations filled with corporate lobbyists.

Sanders = an administration filled with lobbyists for the people and planet.

[Shrike47]

26. No, she would not be a good VP choice for Sanders. I doubt she'd accept, anyway.

I don't see HRC playing second fiddle to a man ever again.

[CrispyQ]

28. I hope she retires & enjoys many hours with her beautiful granddaughter.

[frylock]

29. No thanks.

[LWolf]

30. I'd prefer Warren. nt

[SoapBox]

32. Nope.

Her time in the White House is over.

[sadoldgirl]

34. Definitely NO

I would hope for someone, who is heavily engaged
with Climate Change programs.

[Pastiche423]

35. NO!

And thank our stars that will never happen.

That would be like having a Dem Pres w/a rep VP.

[Scuba]

36. Bernie's life expectency would be measured in minutes.