Comments on: Kaine as Obama’s VP Choice?

By: Karla H

Karla H — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:05:24 +0000

Let’s not forget that McCain sponsored the immigration bill along with Teddy (Chapaquiddick) Kennedy… boy… are we screeeeewed!

By: Groveton

Groveton — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:07:48 +0000

Mark Warner is proof that you should sometimes vote Republican.

By: Bridget

Bridget — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:39:53 +0000

Warner declined:

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/08/virginias-warner-saying-no-to-obama-vp-spot/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042805/posts

By: Mr. Anon

Mr. Anon — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:12:25 +0000

I’m suprised Warner isn’t getting more attention as a potential VP candidate. He really is locked in on that senate seat.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:05:34 +0000

Bwana,

I thought that Obama and Richardson were each HALF minorities! LOL

By: Junes_Reston

Junes_Reston — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:10:51 +0000

Personally, I would love to see Obama select Kaine as his running mate … Two unknowns, with little experience - just what Americans do NOT want.

It has been said before that even when the Democrats are winning, they always seem to find a way to shoot themselves in the foot.

I say give Obama the gun and let him blow his foot off …. and Kaines.

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Not that Juan McCain is much of a prize.

By: Loudoun Insider

Loudoun Insider — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:33:03 +0000

All this talk of Kaine for VP is BS. Kaine is one of the single most ineffective Governors in the nation right now.

By: Groveton

Groveton — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:14:10 +0000

Obama’s honeymoon will be far from over by November, 2009. As the bad news continues over the summer it will become more and more obvious just how bad the Bush Administration has been for America. Obama, wisely campaigning as an outsider, will (somewhat correctly) claim that he needs more than one year to undo the mess done by eight years of Republican rule. The arch-conservatives will carp but everybody else will give him the benefit of the doubt for at least two years. Look back at November, 1981 and tell me if Reagan had seen his post-Carter honeymoon evaporate.

The Republicans under Bush have dug themselves at least a deep a hole as the Deomocrats under Carter. Beyond that, the Republican Party has no rudder and is increasingly irrelevent to middle of the road voters. The youth vote has been lost for a decade.

If Obama is elected and turns out to be a horrible president, the backlash won’t start until the run up to the 2012 election. The hope that a failing Obama will save Virginia for the Republicans in 2009 is pure hallucination.

By: NoVA Scout

NoVA Scout — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:49:05 +0000

Who’s the Communist? Who’s the proto-Communist from Chicago? didn’t realize they were still trying to run candidates. Sometimes I feel like I get behind in my reading.

By: Riley

Riley — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 01:47:40 +0000

Bwana, Obama won’t pick Richardson for VP. Pretty much for the same reason why Marky Mark was forced out of the presidential race.

By: CitizenofManassas

CitizenofManassas — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:38:57 +0000

Benton,

Sure we can discuss the issues you want.

Obama says he is concerned with the loss of American jobs that have been transfered overseas, yet supports a program that would allow illegals to stay here and increase the illegal immigration of more workers to take even more jobs from America. How is that good for the Nation? Obama instead wants to place the blame elsewhere like on “big” business. Now, I have no problem blaming companies where it is right to do so. However, I also know that we should not reward illegals and enc rouge even more illegal immigration.

Obama is against expanding domestic oil drilling, which keeps us dependent on foreign oil. How is that good for America?

Timmy Kaine is an awful pick, but it would let us get rid of him, of course, I suppose if he does not resign, we will still be stuck with him once Obama losses to McCain.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:28:03 +0000

Flavius Maximus: Warner was fortunate to govern during a national economic boom, and the only thing he did to really piss off conservatives was to raise taxes

Good point. Bill Clinton also benefitted. And Barack Obama will too if he wins and the economy rebounds during his term, whether he deserves the credit or not. And he will likely get a second term as a result! IS THAT WHAT WE WANT? 8 YEARS OF OBAMA?

By: PWConservative

PWConservative — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:23:59 +0000

Ohhhhh Obama is gonna lose big, plus Kaine will probably resign to campaign full time. if Obama makes this monumental mistake McCain can get Huckabee and trounce (with the help of the evangelical vote) the Wicked, Perverted, Filthy, Sinful, Murdering, Sodomizing, Tax Raising team that would usher in the last days for the world.

By: Rick Bentley

Rick Bentley — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:18:13 +0000

Romney and Biden

it’s a lock

McCain had a backroom deal with Romney when Romney dropped out

By: Bwana

Bwana — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:40:10 +0000

I have a hunch that Obama won’t pick Richardson…too risky to have two minority candidates on the Democratic ticket.

By: Big Dog

Big Dog — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:11:29 +0000

While you folks rearrange the political deck chairs
you may want to look over the side of our economic
Titanic and see the water coming up quickly and,
surprise, there aren’t enough life boats (who needs them,
cost too much and this ship will never sink).
The good Captain W has also distained sissy worries
about icebergs and such — full speed ahead! Damn
the regulations! Even sent down one of his aides to tell
the folks in the water to stop being such wimps
- drowning would be good for them.

— My retirement “plan” 401K is now a 301K and dropping.
— The stock market is in free fall. An estimated 150
banks will go belly up.
— Unemployment rising ( worse summer
for teen job seekers in decades). Inflation skyward.
– And the list goes on.

The VP for either party has to have far more economic savy
than either candidate and much more than that damn
dunce in the WH now.

By: Salem Republicans

Salem Republicans — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:00:01 +0000

Here’s our take on Kaine for VP. I say please pick Kaine for VP Senator Obama.

http://roanokevalleyrepublicans.blogspot.com/2008/07/message-to-senator-obama-please-pick.html

By: John Light

John Light — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:47:08 +0000

I really do not see Bolling stepping down - his ego is just too big for that. Looking at who he has accepted money from for his various campaigns proves that he cares more about winning than about doing what is right.

By: Bridget

Bridget — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:21:58 +0000

Johnson - I was under the same impression - but turned out to be recalling Webb and Warner. Neither one interested in Obama running mate role.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042805/post

Speculations and predictions aplenty:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2045783/posts

By: john clements

john clements — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:47:14 +0000

I sent you a e-mail yesterday containing a link to one of my posts on my blog entitled,” Tim Kaine For VP? A Natural Choice For Obama.” Wanting to know your thoughts on it. Did you recieve it? One thing your post doesn’t mention is Kaine’s appointment of Omeish to the VA. Commision on immigration. Omeish resigned after the media uproar sparked by Littlegreenfootballs and Todd Gilbert. In case you didn’t recieve the e-mail, here’s the link again:http://amerisrael.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/recent-news-has-it-that-virginia-govenor-tim-kaine-may.html Would like to know your thoughts.-john clements [Amerisrael]