Kaine: "It would be hard to say no" to a VP offer from Obama

By: aznew
Published On: 5/30/2008 4:43:54 PM

Tim Kaine told the Charlottesville Daily Progress the following:

"I don't know what would happen if it came to me," Kaine said in an interview with The Daily Progress. "Part of me would say, it's a historic time and it's a huge election and there's some fundamental forks in the road that we're going to be taking. I signed on to help Barack win. If he wants me to help him in that way, it'd be hard to say no."

But Kaine doesn't seem to think he will be the choice, and even touted Hillary Clinton, explicitly, and Jim Webb, implicitly, for the spot on the ticket.

(A little more on the flip)

Update: The Daily Progress has the entire unedited interview up on its website. It's about 50 minutes long.

http://www.dailyprogress.com/c...
Of course, the last time Kaine came to C'Ville to talk to Larry Sabato's class at UVA, he indicated he would not accept an offer of the VP slot, or so The Hook reported:

http://www.readthehook.com/blo...

Anyway, the entire DP article is short, and worth a read, but FWIW, Kaine had this to say about the Clinton/Obama contest:

Kaine predicted that Clinton will concede after Tuesday's primaries in South Dakota and Montana.

If she does not drop out of the race, Kaine said, the skirmish between the two Democrats would be prolonged and might damage the nominee's chance in November.

"I really hope that this comes to a close next week," he said. "I think it will."

Comments



Hmmm (Just Saying - 5/30/2008 8:59:45 PM)
I suppose now we know what the Connolly endorsement was about...competing with Jim Webb. Pathetic.


Well, Kaine did say that the (Lowell - 5/30/2008 9:14:57 PM)
Connolly endorsement was largely to "even out" the Webb endorsement of Leslie Byrne.  Whatever the heck that means.


Kaine as a pick (tx2vadem - 5/30/2008 9:51:15 PM)
would be very telling.  Two coal state politicians with ties to the two largest utilities in the country (Exelon and Dominion),  I wonder what that would portend for a new energy policy.


Kane to Kaine (Greg Kane - 5/30/2008 9:54:03 PM)

I know it would be hard, but try anyway


Kaine might be a stronger choice for Virginia (DanG - 5/30/2008 10:03:55 PM)
But Webb would add more to the ticket than Kaine in places like PA, OH, and MI.  And out West as well.  Though I think I like Kaine a lot more than some other people here, I just think Webb adds more to the ticket.