# Hillary Clinton VP choice **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [November 25, 2015, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-vp-choice/738511 "2015-11-25T04:45:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-vp-choice/738511/121 "2015-12-03T04:47:34Z")
Yep, both good choices. Dayton in Minnesota has done well too. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-vp-choice/738511/122 "2015-12-03T12:37:28Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > There’s no need to pick Jim Webb. Wes Clark is close to the Clintons and gives all the same advantages that Webb does, except he’s more of a team player. Webb would please some conservative Democrats while irritating a lot of liberals. Whereas if Gen. Clark was named the VP nominee, I think most Democrats of all ideological stripes would say, “OKay, I can get behind that.” I seriously doubt Clark would be picked – he’s fizzled in his Presidential campaigns, and I’m not sure what he would add – Hillary’s experience as SoS already gives her national security ‘credentials’ on paper. I’ll say it again, a bit more confidently: she will pick someone relatively young and who at least can play the role of ‘outside’ or ‘different’, whether due to background or experience. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-vp-choice/738511/123 "2015-12-03T12:57:51Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I’ll say it again, a bit more confidently: she will pick someone relatively young and who at least can play the role of ‘outside’ or ‘different’, whether due to background or experience. Chelsea Clinton? ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-vp-choice/738511/124 "2015-12-03T13:06:56Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > I seriously doubt Clark would be picked – he’s fizzled in his Presidential campaigns, and I’m not sure what he would add – Hillary’s experience as SoS already gives her national security ‘credentials’ on paper. Clark’s bad campaign is pretty irrelevant. Biden and Gore also had campaigns that fizzled and made great VPs. The virtue of Clark is the same as the virtue of any VP she’s likely to pick: he’s ready to be President and won’t mess up the election for her. > [@](#): > > I’ll say it again, a bit more confidently: she will pick someone relatively young and who at least can play the role of ‘outside’ or ‘different’, whether due to background or experience. Yeah, like Cory Booker. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2015, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-vp-choice/738511/125 "2015-12-03T13:15:55Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > Clark’s bad campaign is pretty irrelevant. Biden and Gore also had campaigns that fizzled and made great VPs. The virtue of Clark is the same as the virtue of any VP she’s likely to pick: he’s ready to be President and won’t mess up the election for her. Possible, I just don’t think it’s likely. I don’t dislike Clark, though I don’t know his positions on issues these days beyond a vague recollection of his 2004 campaign in which he seemed like a mainstream Democrat. > [@](#): > > Yeah, like Cory Booker. That’d be fine with me, and I expect he’ll be on the list, as will Gillibrand, the Castros, the VA boys (except for McAuliffe, I think), Deval Patrick, and more. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-vp-choice/738511/126 "2015-12-04T03:42:38Z")
It’s a big list. The Democratic Party has no shortage of good candidates in 2016. Basically, Clinton will have her choice of several candidates who would make better Presidents than her but didn’t have the foresight to marry a President first.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-vp-choice/738511/127 "2016-08-26T15:07:36Z")
Bumped. Tim Kaine tells Stephen Colbert about that fateful call: [Tim Kaine Recalls that Fateful Call from Hillary Clinton - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdNxXteKvUM) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-vp-choice/738511.md?page=6)