All this nonsense about Kaine interrupting during the debate... [View all]

[AmericanActivist]

I am glad Kaine interrupted. I am glad Kaine interrupted being interrupted by Pence. I am glad Kaine interrupted with facts, lots and lots of facts.

For years, decades even, Democrats were polite and patient and waited for their turn to reply to people like Pence and Trump and a long list of other people cut from the Republican cloth. Democrats waited for equal air time, a chance to reply and rebut these people. In most instances, that opportunity didn't happen. I recall constantly hearing Democrats needed to grow a backbone and get a spine. Now, having found said backbone/spine, they are attacked for interrupting. Oh geez oh Pete!

And, I have seen posts here that compare Kaine to Hillary in he first debate suggesting Kaine should have been quiet and let Pence talk and "hang himself" like Trump did. To those people I would say, what worked for Hillary would not have worked for Kaine. As a female, I believe this strategy worked for Hillary as a woman combined with the fact that her opponent, Trump, is a different type of man who definitely "hangs himself" with his words given half a chance. If Kaine, as a man, used the same approach that Hillary used with Trump Kaine would come off as weak. A quiet woman is one thing, but a man would be judged differently. And Kaine would be called spineless and told to grow a backbone. It has happened before and it happened for years.

So, for the record, I, for one, am very glad Kaine handled the debate the way that he did. He was armed with facts and he used them, he hammered them home and he defended Hillary's record and policy proposals.