Tim Kaine, A Republican-Lite Elephant In Charge of the DNC's China Shop
Dean's successful 50 state strategy has been rebuffed by the Obama team and Kaine.
I wrote about Kaine again when it was announced he was Obama's choice to head the DNC.
"Just as he was a terrible choice as one of the candidates on the short list assembled by Dem VP candidate selection team, Caroline Kennedy, Eric Holder, Kaine is and equally questionable choice for DNC chair"
"Kaine has been a mediocre governor, riding in on Mark Warner's coattails as his lieutenant governor, and doing nothing progressively effective for the state or the Democratic Party."
This Republican lite, Democrat in name only, is anti-women's reproductive rights and a corporatist who is cozy with the state's energy biggie, Dominion Power, and strongly supported its building a coal fired plant, aligning himself against the health of Virginians and a clean environment.
While he receives union support as a nominal Democrat, he shamelessly points out often that Virginia is a right to work state.
Kaine was also a rabid supporter of the Iraq invasion and occupation and Arianna Huffington once wrote about him:
"Don't ask me why, but I actually watched Kaine's inaugural address on C-SPAN, and I was stunned to hear him dare compare the cause of Virginians like Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson to our cause in Iraq: 'They stood here at a time, just as today, when Virginians serving freedom's cause sacrificed their lives so that democracy could prevail over tyranny.'
"Iraq as a war to ensure that democracy can prevail over tyranny is George Bush's talking point. God help us if it's also the talking point of the man the Democrats have chosen to respond to him after the State of the Union."
"And during Kaine's run for Governor, he adopted another Bush talking point -- that it would send "a horrible message" to "cut and run" in Iraq. Could that be any further from [Pennsylvania Democrat, US Representative, John] Murtha's message that Iraq has become a civil war -- a civil war being inflamed by our continuing presence?
"Maybe you are thinking -- at least those of you who have a life and missed his inaugural speech on C-SPAN -- that Kaine is a charismatic speaker who will really wow the American people. Well, he ain't. In fact, he scored so low on the scintillating speaker meter, that today's Note suggests Democrats make it a priority to get the Guv a speech tutor before the State of the Union."
As reported by Tremayne at Open Left, in Kaine's new video, the governor answers a couple of questions about Dean's 50 state strategy at the DNC.
Tremayne writes: "In response to both questions Kaine talks about all the ways that Virginia has gone from red to blue over the last few years and gives credit to Dean for this. I see it more as going from reddish-purple to bluish-purple but okay. He says the 50-state strategy was "really important." Good. He says "Its success speaks for itself." Yes.
"But in both answers he says they won't being doing exactly what they did during the last 4 years. Kaine: 'You never should just do what you did yesterday' and 'We may do it in different ways.' More specifically, Virginia is not, say, Idaho and therefore: 'I won't say it should apply equally in every state.' But we will continue it in "new and exciting ways."
"So, bottom line: it was really important and successful and we'll be doing something that we'll call a 50-state strategy but it won't look like it did before. Because "you never should just do what you did yesterday" even if what you did yesterday worked really well."
Kaine, a deficient governor and member of the Republican wing of the Democratic Party, has really bamboozled Obama.
But, I suppose we should be grateful: at least Kaine isn't the Vice-President elect.
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