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[Attorney in Texas]

70. Medea Benjamin (and Jill Stein) do us (and Hillary) a great service. Hillary's choice of Tim Kaine

confirms that Hillary is reaching out to the center.

If you want to be perceived as a centrist, you need people who oppose you on your right (Trump) and your left (Benjamin and Stein). Now that Warren and Sanders are 100% behind Hillary, Trump would have more success labeling Hillary as "out of the mainstream" if there was no one fighting Hillary from left.

This is the ideal situation: Hillary has opponents who say she's too far to the right but they are only a small 3% to 5% segment of the vote.

LBJ had a small group of opponents on his left, Carter had a small group of opponents on his left, Bill had a small group of opponents on his left, Obama had a small group of opponents on his left, and they all did just fine. We live in a democracy. We should foresee and accept that our system of government -- the best system yet invented by the human mind -- will and must encompass a broad range of opinions and competing visions for the role of our government.

We cannot claim to represent the mainstream in one breath and -- in the very next breath -- express outrage and surprise that there are some to our left whose views are outside of our mainstream vision.