[ReagansRaiders]

Someone must be "very, very high" if they are considering Gov. Timmy! for VP.

[MattinNJ]

If they go with Kaine, McCain should go with Palin to scoop up the female vote (for years t come). Total victory.

[tiredoflaundry]

[Tarpon]

So that would make the donkey ticket upside down, wouldn’t it? Normally it’s the top that has the experience and judgement.

[eleni121]

I cannot fathom a Timbits as VP...or anything else.

Virginians must be brain dead...no...are brain dead.

[edpc]

Great. I can’t wait to hear him say “there’s a better way” a gazillion times during the campaign.

[Corin Stormhands]

Failed Governor ping.

[RDTF]

boo! hiss!

[healey22]

[RKBA Democrat]

I hope he does it as well. Tim Kaine won the governorship for one reason: the Virginia GOP’s utter incompetence. What exactly were they thinking when they ran Kilgore?

This is a pure win for Virginians if it happens.

1. We get Lt. Governor Bill Bolling as governor. He’s a top notch GOP conservative (those are rare as hens teeth these days).
2. Virginia gets rid of Tim Kaine a year early.

[Dr. Sivana]

He looks kind of like Dilbert's boss.

[edpc]

I'm guessing the initial MSM analysis of a potential McCain/Pawlenty and Obama/Kaine runoff would go like this:

Kaine is a rising star in the Democratic party in a key Southern state.

Pawlenty is a relative unknown in a state with little sway in the election.

[SunkenCiv]

to try to gain ground in the South?

Details missing from Obama’s Social Security plan (Not surprising)
My Way News | July 28, 2008 | Charles Babington
Posted on 07/28/2008 4:46:24 PM PDT by Kaslin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052818/posts

[hosepipe]

A Black Marxist with a Veep named Kaine..
Evil is as evil does..

[ken21]

if he is chosen by al obama,

watch immediately for the media to build up his intelligence.

he’ll be an equal at least to hillary.

[republicangel]

Kaine is a laughing stock around here in southeast Virginia. Not sure what Obama thinks he would be accomplishing.

[Santa Fe_Conservative]

He looks more like Alec Baldwin...shudder....

[Norman Bates]

No chance he gets picked.

From Wikipedia:
“Tim Kaine has stated he has a “faith-based opposition to abortion”. [2] He also supports promoting abstinence and opposes partial-birth abortion.[3] Tim Kaine is a member of Democrats For Life of America.”

[rfp1234]

He's a cross between Archie and Slobodan!

[CharlesWayneCT]

Kaine, an early Obama supporter whose biography nicely dovetails with the Illinois senator’s, "ranks very, very high on the short list," said a source who has spoken recently to senior Obama aides about Kaine.

His experience dovetails nicely as well. small-city mayor and a few years screwing up a state as Governor.

No foreign policy experience. No military experience. No national leadership experience.

A Catholic who opposes the death penalty, but nonetheless promised to carry out the death penalty -- and has since commuted at least one death row conviction.

A Catholic who "opposes abortion", but promised to defend a woman's right to choose.

A man who first said he would support the Virginia Marriage Amendment, but then turned around and opposed it, claiming problems with the "language" which in fact had not changed.

A man who promised a transportation "lock-box", but never submitted one. Who promised not to raise taxes, and then tried to raise taxes.

A man who modified an already bad "abusive driver" fee to exclude non-residents.

A man who brings no real constituency, and who may not even help carry the state.

A man who has been so bad at his job that a web site that was named after him has CHANGED THEIR NAME to disassociate themselves from him.

[Salvation]

Why a Republican?