Monday, July 25, 2016

Looking For The Perfect Democratic Running Mate

Hillary Clinton selected Virginia's former senator and governor Tim Kaine to be her vice presidential running mate. Among his the qualifications that were mentioned for him being chosen was his fluency in Spanish. He was even introduced with Clinton in Florida, a battleground state with a large Latino population.

What? I thought the Democrats had the Latino votes all locked up. The media has portrayed Donald Trump as a candidate who will lose all the Latino votes because of his plan to build a wall between Mexico and the U.S. to keep out ILLEGAL immigrants. Why the press and Latino rights groups think all Latinos, especially American citizens who can vote in November, would welcome more illegals into this country to compete for employment is beyond me. But that is the narrative that they plan to portray.

If the Democrats really want to play the racial identity political card, Tim Kaine is obviously the wrong guy. Sure, he can speak Spanish. So what? In the end he is just another upper class white guy who is granted all the usual rich white guy privileges. If the Democrats truly cared about choosing somebody who has the proper demographics to help them win the election, they would need to find a person who is black, female, Spanish speaking, lesbian, and from Ohio with experience in government. If she is married to an illegal Asian female that would be a bonus. There must be at least one of those in Ohio right? They would essentially have all their favorite demographics locked up in one running mate and leave the white male voters to Trump, which he threatens to acquire anyway.