Did Hillary's VP pick cost her the election?

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23. Don't be silly.Hillary embraced Bernie's platform & melded it with her own.Kaine is absolutely solid

What did you want her to do? Besides not being the woman with 30 years experience fighting for the rights of humanity, particularly the female and children parts so routinely overlooked by politicians.

Including Bernie -- very early in in his gadfly campaign I noticed that every social issue was subsumed into his economic theories. Women's reproductive health care? Don't worry -- single payer will solve all of that. Actually, no it won't unless you change social attitudes about women's rights. Specifically African American issues? Don't worry, raising the minimum wage will solve that. Actually, raising the minimum wage will not solve the problem of black males being killed for no reason by white cops. Latino/a -- never mind. Identity politics shouldn't be our focus.

Hillary is not a gadfly. She is highly focused and methodical. She extended lots f olive branches, only to have them snapped off in her hand by partisans convinced she "couldn't be trusted" due to 30 years of RW lies about her.

Bernie has gone back to doing what he has always done: be a gadfly who would rather scold Democrats for our perceived failures, than a real ally focused on the real enemy of us all, which is the RW and Trump.