That’s what I thought as well. Ut-oh, time to start letting his supporters down easy…
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" (youth, color, and someone who can excite the base)"
Gee Plucky, so Bernie’s to old and too white? Classic.
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Isn’t always the loser[']s campaign that “suggests” a combo ticket?
That suggestion comes in a couple of different flavors, of course - there’s the “staying in to run for VP” variety, and there’s the co-opting tack that the Clinton campaign took in '08, when, while Hillary was losing to Barack Obama (having won half as many states as he had by that point), Bill floated the notion that a vote for Hillary was really a vote for a Clinton/Obama “dream ticket”.
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Yeah…I see that he tried to play it off as a joke.
But that just doesn’t hold water. A chief strategist doesn’t drop a joke about being the VP while talking the the press.
Its a very, very bad faux paus at the least.
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Yeah, I never put much faith in these “dream team” scenarios (and it was only a matter of time before someone floated HillBernie/BernieHill). Seriously, though, can you see VP Sanders toeing a line or keeping his mouth shut? I can’t. He’d make Uncle Joe look bland.
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Heh. I’ve kinda been thinking they might have to consider that. After all, if Clinton wins they have to pull back all those disillusioned young voters. This sounds like a trial balloon float, to see how positively people respond.
Damn. forgot my teeth, I’m on garment rending again.
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No. Not going to happen.
Well, Ms. Clinton’s no spring chicken herself, and you usually see a balance of age – Obama-Biden, Romney-Ryan, McCain-Palin, Kerry-Edwards, Bush-Cheney, Bush-Quayle. The standout violations in my lifetime are Reagan-Bush and Clinton-Gore. This is for multiple reasons: you want to have a balance of idealism and experience, and the young candidate (as with Castro) is less likely to have damaging things in their history that can anchor them down compared to both Sanders and Clinton.
I don’t think it’s wrong to say that qualified minority candidates are really important to the Democratic Party philosophy.
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And Hillary wasn’t on the ticket.
Picking a competitor is more the exception than the rule. Obama picked Biden…but Biden was barely a competitor, dropping out after a dismal finish in Iowa. Kerry picked Edwards, Reagan picked Bush, and Kennedy picked Johnson.
That’s it for modern politics.
It won’t happen on our side this year. What happens on the other side is still anybody’s guess.
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I guess Tad dies not want to be on the loosing team again as he has been on every campaign he has been part of since 1980. Clinton does not need Sanders on the ticket. Sanders now owes the Democratic Party his support of her in the general. Just as Hillary and Bill did for Obama and the Party.
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Gore Liberman, not really sure if Dukakis would be considered a “young” candidate, if not then Dukakis-Bentsen in '88. Mondale - Ferraro. Carter - Mondale. McGovern - Eagleton. Humphrey - Muskee. Nixon - Agnew.
The old guy/young guy was actually relatively uncommon, and probably started becoming more of a “trend” when the baby boomers started becoming of age (Bush-Quayle being the start of that new trend…though Kennedy-Johnson certainly had it, but more for experience than age).
Since then…its pretty much become the norm on at least one side, if not both.
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I am telling you, being a professional staffer is a great way to go. No matter your track record, you can keep getting gigs.
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I absolutely agree, Hillary would be a good VP.
Indeed. And she’ll make an even better president. 
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Lets face it that’s the smartest thing either of these camps has said about winning the White House.
Hillary 2024!
Ah, only if we repeal the 22nd amendment… but I like your enthusiasm!
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Not going to happen. Senator Sanders because of his stance against taking money from super PACs could never run a campaign with Hillary Clinton. Senator Sander’s best bet is to get an Ambassadorship to the UK or to whatever country he wants if he doesn’t want to be senator anymore. His brother lives in the UK, maybe he would like to live close to his brother for 4 years or more.
Yes, Julian Castro. It’s not only what he brings to the ticket in this cycle, but looking forward:
Our rapprochement with Cuba is well underway, and could be absolutely huge during the eight years of a Clinton (H) presidency. Just President Obama’s visit later this month will open the tourism floodgates, and it will happen in the midst of this election cycle.
So, imagine a Vice President who’s young, and Hispanic, but also up-to-date on key urban issues, as his stint as Sec of HUD implies. He will be the odds-on favorite to repeat the Democratic Presidential win after Hillary’s two terms. Do the Republicans have anything at all left in their arsenal after Trump?
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