http://dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040612/NEWS09/406120362/1001&lead=1
The Des Moines Register has a story on how the moderate Democratic Leadership Council (or at least Al From, its leader) likes Vilsack as the VP pick. From does not clearly make an endorsement, but he says " . . . I would be very, very excited if Tom Vilsack were the nominee. I just don't think you find (sic) a more solid, more innovative, more forward-looking person."
Maybe solid, but innovative and forward-looking? As a loyal Iowa Democrat, I don't think you could get a more lackluster and ineffective VP candidate, except perhaps Gephardt. In my opinion, neither of these individuals on the ticket would help Kerry win Iowa, which will only vote Bush if most of the rest of the swing states vote Bush. I am still for either Edwards or Clark, depending on how crucial an issue that national security appears to be. Edwards does not get discussion in the article, apparently because the moderates are not interested in him. Why not?
I am starting to get very worried that my Governor will be the VP nominee. He is being thoroughly vetted, even going back to looking at insignificant letters Vilsack wrote as the mayor of a small Iowa town, called, believe it or not, Mount Pleasant. Vilsack could just have well been the mayor in the movie Pleasantville, living his career in black and white.
It seems to me that the DLC got us into this mess, by screwing up Al Gore's campaign and then kowtowing to the Bush agenda. Does Al From have Kerry's ear and a major influence on the VP selection?