Who is your pick for Vice President?

[BooScout]

Hillary's shortlist for VP has been leaked, who is your pick? I have only included candidates I saw on the leaked list.

12 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	Elizabeth Warren
	4 (33%)
	Tim Kaine
	0 (0%)
	Sherrod Brown
	0 (0%)
	Cory Booker
	2 (17%)
	Tom Perez
	0 (0%)
	Julian Castro
	0 (0%)
	Eric Garcetti
	0 (0%)
	Xavier Becerra
	6 (50%)
	Tim Ryan
	0 (0%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[ram2008]

1. After going through his record, Becerra

Makes the most political sense, solid progressive, voted against Iraq, fluent in Spanish, qualified Latino, keeps Liz as the Senate lion.

There are no negatives I can think of.

As a Latino I would be insulted if she picked Castro, if she picks Becerra Id be very enthusiastic.

[Hortensis]

6. Becerra checks the right boxes, but mostly

with a pencil applied lightly. A good, progressive liberal, but as far as I can see one of dozens who stands out from a crowd of them only because he is Hispanic. That's a big qualification, but I really want someone with a real record of accomplishment. Don't we have a Hispanic governor at least to put on the list?

Fwiw, I believe that if Becerra had had Castro's prominence and had been picked for HUD, he would now have Castro's negatives. You can't sell mortgages to non-existent nonprofits that don't want them, and the GOP holds the government pursestrings and has been passing hostile laws, both severely limiting the HUD secretary's options. But, oh, well. Good man down.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Mitt Romney.

[John Poet]

4. Heh. I miss Mitt.

After watching the whole Republican-Nazi-car candidates this year...

Mitt was "fun". Funnier than hell. None of those guys were funny... at all...

And, compared with all them, he was a decent guy, for a Republican.

[LWolf]

3. I don't have one.

It's highly probable that Clinton would not/will not select anyone I want in Washington. Should she condescend to choose a non-neo-liberal, that person would be hamstrung by the necessity of supporting the neo-liberal president, and would be generally useless as VP unless Clinton resigned, was removed, or died.

I don't like her. I never have, and I doubt I ever will. I don't want her to be president.

But I don't wish any of those things upon her that would make her VP choice matter to me.

I suppose I could take the long view, that her VP would become president after her.

I don't think she's going to win in November. If she does, though, the whole party machine will work to keep her in place for 8 years. I'm not going to be waiting around another 8 years; I'll be working to defeat neo-liberalism every day, every action, every vote, and the next time I have a chance to nominate a presidential candidate, it won't be someone who was leashed and heeled by a neo-liberal administration for 8 years.

[longship]

5. Why would any sane person want to remove Warren from her Senate seat?

Why? Just why?

[obamanut2012]

7. Warren is much better for us in the Senate or in the Cabinet

I think she would be wasted as VP.

[eastwestdem]

8. Like most, my heart and my head are in different places. I'd hate to lose a D in the senate. nt

[lunamagica]

9. Xavier Becerra. I think he's a more solid pick than Julian Castro, and brings the same

positives, plus, it would leave the senate intact.