I found the best description of Tim Kaine, in the strangest of places

[Siwsan]

Dlist.com. Big time fun but sleezy gossip page. Anyway, here, in part, is what was said:

Ever since my eyes first captured Tim Kaine greeting the people, I’ve been meaning to pay tribute to his glorious butterfly fluttering wave. It was in full effect on the last night of the Democratic National Convention. The internet keeps saying that Tim Kaine IS your dad, but to me, Tim Kaine is your nice uncle. He’s the uncle who always called you “buddy,” wrote a Dr. Seuss quote on your graduation card and once got away from the grown-ups at a family party to watch Homeward Bound with the kids (but left when he started to get emotional).

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. "Avuncular". It's an actual term, believe it or not.

Meaning someone who has the attributes of a kind uncle.

This article echoes your thoughts.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2016/07/27/here_are_the_best_dad_jokes_from_twitter_during_tim_kaine_s_dnc_speech.html

It was frequently used to describe Joe Biden as well.

Personally I see Joe Biden as being a likeable uncle type, and Tim Kaine as your dad at the point in your life where you've outgrown your teenaged years and are no longer embarrassed by your dad's quirkiness and wholeheartedly choose to embrace it instead. But that's just me.

[Siwsan]

2. Now I challenge someone to find the perfect description of Pence

Using a Stephen King novel or the Book of Revelations would be too easy

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. I went with the abusive alcoholic stepdad from the movie Boyhood.

[Siwsan]

4. I've heard other people say that, too. I'll have to find that movie

[Hortensis]

5. I'm normally allergic to demonizing opponents,

but I've been having a recurring fancy about a man I suspect might be capable of real evil under the wrong conditions. Yes, Pence is good looking, pleasant and charming, but with those small, deep-set eyes in the wrong lighting I keep thinking he looks like a character out of a Stephen King novel. (So THIS is what conservatives feel like. No wonder they're horrified by Hillary. )

Silly demonizing aside, the real man we know by his history is enough to make me thank goodness for the constitution -- and anxious to keep him away from it.

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