The left sometimes has a terrible habit of underestimating the center. We’re seeing that crop up right now.

Kaine is, like a bizarro Jon Kasich, mostly moderate in his demeanor. His devout religious beliefs are (like Clinton’s) decidedly social-justice focused. As a Senator, he gets excellent-to-perfect grades from liberal groups and 0%s from conservative ones. As governor, he rejected federal funds for abstinence-only sex…

Literally every person I’ve seen talking shit about Kaine knows nothing about him.

Maybe you’d invite him to major holidays, I’d invite him to every function possible, and make sure to stock plenty of his favorite booze. Guy is an unintentional riot.

He’s nutty for a politician, in that he seems to have very minimal filter.

Yep, polarizing.

Yup. Recently saw a bunch of my more conservative family members, none of whom seem willing to vote for Trump. Many have deep reservations about Clinton, and were worried she’d pick someone like Warren. A solid, dependable, religious guy like Kaine may be just what those kind of folks need to get them to hold their…

It makes me feel old indeed when a mention of strategery goes unnoticed, so this was a welcome comment.

Right. Because there are no voters who are moderate Democrats. Oh, wait, that’s most of them.

If Hillary is going to win, she’s going to need boring white Republicans disaffected by Trump like me to hold our noses and vote for her. Kaine might be boring to a lot of progressives, but Republicans and right leaning independents were going to cross Hillary off of their lists right away if she had picked someone…

right, Palin was solely to pander to the base, and she may not have totally sunk the campaign, but ensured it would never float again

Tim Kaine: You don’t love me. You just love my missionary position.

I think it’s vastly more important that he’s not a daring choice and is personally not flashy and exciting. But, then again I’m hilariously immature, more interested in acting above it all, in how my political opinions make others think of me (cool! progressive!), and in writing sarcastic and dismissive things on the…

Cecile Richards of Planned Parented just enthusiastically endorsed Kaine on the Rachel Maddow Show and gave him a 100% rating on his voting record. So, maybe he’s just fine on abortion rights.

almost no interesting anecdotes about him, and my only takeaway is that because there are none

Exactly.

We could all use a little “boring” right now. Trump is what happens when people think governing should be like walking away from an exposion, in slow-motion, wearing sunglasses.

I don’t get thee complaints. Would we rather her pick some token minority jsut because they are a token minority? Is that what it’s all about now, just picking some minority person to pander? As shitty a person as Clinton is, this is the most genuine move she’s made thus far. Kaine may be boring but he is also a…

a commenter showed me this, which is a pretty neat opinion:

In an election season where 24 hours can’t go by without Trump doing or saying something inexplicably stupid, it is good strategery to select a candidate that will bore the media so instead they will go back to savaging your opponent.