Tim Kaine as a VP pick

[President Johnson]

I actually agree with bruce's points, all of the said is correct. However, I'm not sure whether it would have been a good idea to jump on this outsider train just because Donald Trump and parts of the public/media have defined "outsider" as something positive. First off, Donald Trump is not an outsider and never has been. He's born rich, never had a real job or struggled to bring food on the table. He's as elite as it can get. Instead, he was and still is unprepared to be president. Second, his business career hardly qualifies him for any office, since he was never that much of a successful businessman. Even if you like a president who runs the country like a business, Trump isn't your man. Hillary and other politicans have done a lousy job in countering this notion an outsider in politics is always a good thing. Yes, you need some people in charge who come from other backgrounds such as business, military, law enforcement, education and so on. That isn't the point. The points is, outsiders are often unprepared and inexperienced, especially when they are either unable to assemble a competent team or just let others run the show in a bad manner (see Cheney and Bush). Maybe voters need to be asked why they want an inexperienced showman in government, but not anywhere else? Nobody wants an inexperienced doctor taking care of their own health. Just like you don't hire someone as pilot who has never landed a plane.

A politician's job is not always to sign on stuff that's popular at the moment, but to make the right thing popular through rational arguments and persuasion. I know that's harder in theory than in pratice, since we chose our political leaders all too often by their showman ability and not actual competence.