who should Hillary's running mate be?

[Proud Public Servant]

13. I hate to admit this

But this was dinner table conversation among our political-junkie family recently. Here's the consensus:

1) Hillary is not a risk-taker; as the first female presidential candidate from a major party, she'll inoculate herself against charges of radicalism by picking a white guy.

2) 2016 is going to be an anti-Washington year, and Hillary is very much a creature of Washington; she's going to need someone with outside-the-beltway credibility, the farther from dc the better.

3) Hillary may have done better with Appalachians that the president did, but at the end of the day she still comes across as an chardonnay-sipping limousine liberal elitist. She's going to need somebody who walks the talk on working-class issues and populism in a way she can't.

A white male populist with blue-collar, outside the beltway cred? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the next vice president of the United State: Brian Schweitzer. Or Steve Beshear. One of those two.