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Who's it going to be?

Who do you want it to be?

Could she pick someone that would hurt her fragile alliance with the reluctant progressives?

Names I've heard so far are:

Elizabeth Warren
Tim Kaine
Sherrod Brown
Some retired admiral dude

Warren should be the obvious choice (I'm biased though) but I fear she's going to revert and try to triangulate with this pick.
 
She's said she wants to pick someone who's capable of being POTUS (an unimaginably responsible concept), but if she does that, then Warren is the most obvious pick. But as has been said many times, Warren can do more where she is now than as VP.

Also, if Hillary doesn't win this thing, and assuming that elections will happen in 2020 should Orange Spraytan Fuckface Baboon Man get elected, then she would be the most obvious go-to for the Democrats (at least the way things are now).

So that leaves someone lesser than Warren to take the job. I like the idea of the Admiral guy because it may allay the inarticulate fears of the few who are still on the fence. How anyone could be on the fence at this point is beyond me, but those people do exist in not completely insignificant numbers.
 
Colonel Sanders said:
Also, if Hillary doesn't win this thing, and assuming that elections will happen in 2020 should Orange Spraytan Fuckface Baboon Man get elected, then she would be the most obvious go-to for the Democrats (at least the way things are now).
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Good god, if Hillary loses to Trump this year and she gets to be the Democrat nominee in 2020 then the Democrat Party would have successfully won the title "The Stupid Party" from the Republicans.
 
ksen said:
Colonel Sanders said:
Also, if Hillary doesn't win this thing, and assuming that elections will happen in 2020 should Orange Spraytan Fuckface Baboon Man get elected, then she would be the most obvious go-to for the Democrats (at least the way things are now).
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Good god, if Hillary loses to Trump this year and she gets to be the Democrat nominee in 2020 then the Democrat Party would have successfully won the title "The Stupid Party" from the Republicans.
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I think he was referring to Elizabeth Warren for 2020
 
It's sounding like she's going to pick some bland and generic white guy. It would be nice if she stretched a bit and did something unconventional, but it's not like her campaign is in any kind of trouble and she needs to shake things up and take some risks.
 
Tom Sawyer said:
It's sounding like she's going to pick some bland and generic white guy. It would be nice if she stretched a bit and did something unconventional, but it's not like her campaign is in any kind of trouble and she needs to shake things up and take some risks.
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For a slam dunk win, she should pick John Kasich. :D
 
ksen said:
Who's it going to be?

Who do you want it to be?

Could she pick someone that would hurt her fragile alliance with the reluctant progressives?

Names I've heard so far are:

Elizabeth Warren
Tim Kaine
Sherrod Brown
Some retired admiral dude

Warren should be the obvious choice (I'm biased though) but I fear she's going to revert and try to triangulate with this pick.
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I have the same fear. If it's Kaine or any military guy, then to hell with her. Yeah, I will still vote for her, but I will have a look on my face when I do it.
 
The Colourful Jester said:
KeepTalking said:
No clue.



Obama.

While I'm sure there is some rule against that somewhere, it would be fucking epic, and would guarantee her the POTUS.
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I thought I read a loophole on Wikipedia, where a previous president could be VP?
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There are probably different rules about being president of Wikipedia, and being president of the USA, though.
 
Some say that the way the amendment is written, he can't be elected president again, but if he was VP, he could, upon the death of the president, rise to presidency without a problem. But he still is ineligible to be VP.

But if he is picked as the Secretary of State, and something takes out the President, Vice President, Speaker of the House, President of the Senate, and Al Haig, all in one fell swoop, he would be the next in line to be president.
 
Elixir said:
Tom Sawyer said:
It's sounding like she's going to pick some bland and generic white guy. It would be nice if she stretched a bit and did something unconventional, but it's not like her campaign is in any kind of trouble and she needs to shake things up and take some risks.
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For a slam dunk win, she should pick John Kasich. :D
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While it would never happen, this is actually brilliant. There's no rule that says a candidate must choose a VP contender from their own party. Kasich is (or was) the one Republican who consistently beat Hillary in trial heats, it would give the Never Trump crowd an outlet, and would put the grand-daddy of all swing states solidly in Hillary's corner.
 
Ford said:
Elixir said:
For a slam dunk win, she should pick John Kasich. :D
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While it would never happen, this is actually brilliant. There's no rule that says a candidate must choose a VP contender from their own party. Kasich is (or was) the one Republican who consistently beat Hillary in trial heats, it would give the Never Trump crowd an outlet, and would put the grand-daddy of all swing states solidly in Hillary's corner.
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Agreed. Kasich wouldn't agree to it and it would still only pull a few percent to Hillary, but that's all she needs to close the casket on Trump. The trouble is that the secret service would be working overtime to keep away all the nut-job assassins trying to close the literal casket on Hillary.
 
zorq said:
Ford said:
While it would never happen, this is actually brilliant. There's no rule that says a candidate must choose a VP contender from their own party. Kasich is (or was) the one Republican who consistently beat Hillary in trial heats, it would give the Never Trump crowd an outlet, and would put the grand-daddy of all swing states solidly in Hillary's corner.
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Agreed. Kasich wouldn't agree to it and it would still only pull a few percent to Hillary, but that's all she needs to close the casket on Trump. The trouble is that the secret service would be working overtime to keep away all the nut-job assassins trying to close the literal casket on Hillary.
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Not only would Kasich almost certainly never agree with this, but the party's base would rebel. This would be a mirror image of what happened in 2008, when John McCain floated the possibility of selecting Joe Lieberman as a running mate, but the party's leaders shot it down in flames.
 
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