2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The rest of the story about Washington Post poll. [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)shows an amazing ignorance about the way party politics actually works.
There is no way on god's green earth that she will select anyone who is not a Democrat. Furthermore, whoever that Democrat is will be someone well aligned with her in many ways, someone she can trust to campaign strenuously for her, someone who will happily fade into oblivion after November 2nd. Quite a few Democrats meet all those requirements. Not a single non Democrat does.
I keep on recalling the idiotic fantasies some years back of McCain jumping parties and being a VP on the Democratic ticket. Anyone who thought that clearly was not paying any attention to McCain and what he clearly stood for. He was never any sort of liberal or progressive, but some people very mistakenly thought he was.
And personally, were Clinton to select a non Democrat as her VP it would cause me to seriously rethink the proposition that she's smart.
Edit history
![](du4img/smicon-reply-new.gif)