2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I feel like Hillary is about to drive her campaign into a massive wreck, and all I can do is watch. [View all]frazzled
(18,402 posts)You expressed the opinion that Vilsack and Kaine are boring (even though that may be a net positive in a vice presidential candidate to the extent that they do not draw undue attention; as long as they are competent, experienced and, most important, trusted as an advisor to the nominee, they may be seen as a wise choice by many others). Your opinion is that candidates whose politics don't cohere precisely with your own, and who you deem boring, would be a disaster.
You seem to think that any candidate who is not your choice would result in a train wreck. Perhaps others might think Warren is the candidate with more liabilitiesnot because she is "hated" or "feared" by Wall Street, but because she is something of a lightning rod and attention getter, which is a distraction no campaign needs.
The most important thing to remember is that it is not what you think or feel, or what I think or feel, that matters (there are millions of people in this country whose views, thoughts, opinions, and feelings differ from our own). In the end, it is what Hillary Clinton thinks and feels about this choice. If either of us were electoral strategists, we would have been hired and paid the big bucks to give advice.