Mediocre Tim Kaine to Chair the Democratic National Committee
Obama's choice for head of the DNC takes the Democratic National Committee leadership post from the sublime to the ridiculous. Tim Kaine, Governor of Virginia, has been tapped for that top spot.
Just as he was a terrible choice as one of the candidates on the short list assembled by Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder, members of the Dem VP candidate selection team, Kaine is an equally questionable choice for chair of the DNC.
It signals an apparent rejection of DNC chair Howard Dean's 50 state strategy, which is ironic, since that was the template for Obama's campaign strategy, and a return to Terry McAuliffe's corporate big bucks control of the DNC and the exclusion of grassroots Democrats that made Obama's November victory a reality.
McAuliffe, by the way, announced that he will be formally announcing his run for Virginia governor on Wednessday; another corporate Clintonite pretending that he is a true blue Democrat.
Tim Kaine has been a truly mediocre governor, riding in on Mark Waner's coattails as his lieutenant governor, and doing nothing progressively effective for the state or the Democratic Party..
As I wrote last July: "Governor Kaine, like Bush, does not believe in women's reproductive rights, which should bother women if he becomes the VP candidate.
"Kaine also is a corporatist and has sided with the state's corporate energy biggie, Dominion Power, supporting building a coal fired electric plant and aligning himself against Virginians health and against clean air and protecting the environment."
Kaine also touts Virginia as a right to work state, which is a slap in the face to the unions.
Some Democrat!
For Kaine to head the DNC boggles the mind, unless the Obama administration simply wants a figurehead to do their bidding. However, if the past is any indication, he would be as mediocre a figurehead as he has been a Republican lite, mediocre governor, an affable front man, but pedestrian, nonetheless.
This sounds like a reward for Kaine's early support of Obama. But, grassroots Democrats won Virginia for Obama, not Tim Kaine.
His appointment as head of the DNC certainly won't do anything to advance the Democratic Party nationally. That, again, will be up local Democratic grassroots activists.
Just as he was a terrible choice as one of the candidates on the short list assembled by Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder, members of the Dem VP candidate selection team, Kaine is an equally questionable choice for chair of the DNC.
It signals an apparent rejection of DNC chair Howard Dean's 50 state strategy, which is ironic, since that was the template for Obama's campaign strategy, and a return to Terry McAuliffe's corporate big bucks control of the DNC and the exclusion of grassroots Democrats that made Obama's November victory a reality.
McAuliffe, by the way, announced that he will be formally announcing his run for Virginia governor on Wednessday; another corporate Clintonite pretending that he is a true blue Democrat.
Tim Kaine has been a truly mediocre governor, riding in on Mark Waner's coattails as his lieutenant governor, and doing nothing progressively effective for the state or the Democratic Party..
As I wrote last July: "Governor Kaine, like Bush, does not believe in women's reproductive rights, which should bother women if he becomes the VP candidate.
"Kaine also is a corporatist and has sided with the state's corporate energy biggie, Dominion Power, supporting building a coal fired electric plant and aligning himself against Virginians health and against clean air and protecting the environment."
Kaine also touts Virginia as a right to work state, which is a slap in the face to the unions.
Some Democrat!
For Kaine to head the DNC boggles the mind, unless the Obama administration simply wants a figurehead to do their bidding. However, if the past is any indication, he would be as mediocre a figurehead as he has been a Republican lite, mediocre governor, an affable front man, but pedestrian, nonetheless.
This sounds like a reward for Kaine's early support of Obama. But, grassroots Democrats won Virginia for Obama, not Tim Kaine.
His appointment as head of the DNC certainly won't do anything to advance the Democratic Party nationally. That, again, will be up local Democratic grassroots activists.
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