Saw lots of "Sitcom dad" jokes about Kaine on social media. Probably a good thing politically. Sitcom dads get votes. Tim Kaines is the human Steph Curry shoe.
The DNC is crushing it....wow. This is like watching a slav model vs honey boo boo's mother on the runway. The repugs bring out duck dynasty guy, Dana White, and some other idiots--while the dems brought out people that can actually enact change.
I liked Kaine's speech. Seems like a good guy. He often talks of how his time in Honduras with the Jesuit Corp shaped him. However, I would like to ask him if he is disturbed that Hillary aided the undemocratic coup on Honduras that has led to such blood shed and suffering among the poor there. It has also led to tens of thousands of kids and others fleeing to this country. A good article questioning what Kaine learned in his time in Honduras and what he thins about Hillar and the situation there. https://www.thenation.com/article/eat-pray-starve-what-tim-kaine-didnt-learn-during-his-time-in-h.
1. You know where Tim Kaine will play well? Utah. It's probably the missionary work, but Tim Kaine has a demeanor that reminds me of Mitt Romney. Utah might actually be a state where Demcrats can win, too. A recent survey had Clinton, Johnson and Trump all pretty close. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tim Kaine went on a mission to Honduras, went to a church school and uses his religion as a compass for life. Are we sure he is not Mormon?</p>— Joe Cooprider (@coeyjoops) <a href="https://twitter.com/coeyjoops/status/758485618104135680">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> 2. Tim Kaine's father-in-law, Linwood Holden, is an underrated part of his speech and appeal. Having the former GOP governor there reminding people of what a Republican used to be is useful for convincing some voters who just cannot take Trump.
On the one hand, I'm sure Pence will play even better in Utah, so there is that. On the other hand, Mormons really, really don't like Donald. Catholics aren't a fan either. It's interesting, but I guess not surprising, that there appears to be an inverse relationship between how likely a person is to attend church and how likely they are to support Trump.
Kaine is a very effective speaker and was a great choice by Hillary. His political nature is intertwined with hominess and seemingly genuine faith. He made some rather vicious attacks on Trump, but they seem so mild. Kaine, Clinton, President Obama and Michelle Obama all have had homey affectations. Michelle Obama always has that earnest tone. President Obama was pretty soft and soothing, mildly upbeat; not sternly rebuking Trump or getting serious with the audience about what's at stake. Clinton was especially cloaked in hominess and folksiness, with some loss of his former vitality. (He seems a bit frail.) Seems they are trying to be soothing like Ambien or an antidepressant in response to Trump's paranoid anxiety. They are also developing "children" as a strong softening and warming image for Hillary. It seems they are trying not only to court women but to counter the "sadistic nurse" type of characterization by Boris Johnson. Very interesting to me: the recurrence in Kaine's speech of "dark" describing Trump. Although Trump is the popular white racial candidate, he will be branded as mentally or psychologically "dark." "Dark forces" "dark vision" "dark mind" "dark language" "hiding" "fear": these can effectively stain Trump's image. I expect the "dark" theme to develop.
Republicans gotta republican... http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/28/north-carolina-gop-apologizes-tweet-blasting-tim-k/
Pathetic... I'm sorry, but everyone who is involved in the whole "where are the flags" thing just pretty much needs a regularly scheduled ass-kicking every day for the next 8 years.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Collusion between Hillary Clinton, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and guess who? Tim Kaine. Connect the dots. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DNCinPHL?src=hash">#DNCinPHL</a> <a href="https://t.co/abgGOd9APU">pic.twitter.com/abgGOd9APU</a></p>— PRIYANKA (@chepriyanka) <a href="https://twitter.com/chepriyanka/status/758490270795268096">July 28, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
LOL, the same priyanka that was reporting the DNC seats fillers craigslist add that snopes debunked...
That is very amazing. It's amazing considering all of the emails leaked show Debbie Wasserman Schultz doing nothing wrong except allowing the atmosphere where DNC staffers could send those emails on the DNC server. There are no emails from her doing anything wrong at all. There are zero emails showing that. There are zero emails showing that the DNC actually carried out the things they discussed in those emails. So with all of that being true this tiny thread of coincidence shows that if there was an actual conspiracy involved, nothing at all came of it. An amazing find.
Actually there is a much better way than the "what better" hypothetical laid out here: get millions of people to vote for you in the primaries.
At the end of the day, the DNC is a private entity that can legally choose what ever individual they want by any arbitrary rules they want.
""He is a black soul, and this is totally unfit for the leadership of this country," Khan said. http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/31/politics/khizr-khan-donald-trump-black-soul/index.html
