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RUSH: So how many of you watched the Donald Trump debate last night on taxes and nicknames for women? How many of you saw that debate? Yeah. I have to tell you, folks, I nearly turned it off I can't tell you how many times. I was embarrassed by the whole thing. ... The critics of Donald Trump say that he's a buffoon and he's unserious and all this. Tim Kaine last night was an embarrassment, just an abomination, and the moderator was an embarrassment last night. So much became clear, so much became obvious. One of the things, I'll...

Clowns in the 2016 election race are part of the props and distractions in the Big Game called ‘Hillary Clinton’s Last Hurrah.' Could be thanks to CBSN anchor and moderator Elaine Quijano, allowing Democrat vice president hopeful Tim Kaine to interrupt Republican hopeful Mike Pence some 70 times at last night’s ‘debate’, that he becomes the irrefutable owner of instant “creepy clown” fame? CBSN’s camera crew gave Kaine mucho face play unwittingly showing him as “another creepy clown”.

...what a rude jerk you are. If the best casting director in Hollywood went in search of the perfect actor to play a typical know-it-all, smug, smarmy liberal to represent the Democratic Party on the vice presidential debate stage Tuesday night, he could not possibly have made a better selection than Tim Kaine. This was my first opportunity to see this potential president-in-waiting in action, and all I can say is that this sneering motor-mouth, who immediately began a pattern of repetitive and, I believe, intentional interruptions of his opponent and continued it as long as the moderator would let...

Everyone says that Tim Kaine, despite his creepily uncanny resemblance to several dummies, is a really nice guy. And everyone concedes that Mike Pence is a genuinely nice guy; which is why this is the debate everybody was expecting:Butt OMG! what we got was more like this:The Dems sent Timmy/Triumph the insult dog instead of Timmy the Joker. Good grief Dems, a word of advice: stop beating your dogs. The only thing last night’s pet trick accomplished was to make Kaine – if this is even humanly possible –  less likeable than his running mate. Tim, channeling all of Hillary’s...

How well did things go for Mike Pence and the Trump-Pence ticket tonight? Even Chris Matthews—no doubt to the horror of Rachel Maddow who was helping oversee the post-debate commentary on MSNBC—had to declare Pence the “winner.” Perhaps even worse for the denizens of MSNBC and its viewers, Matthews said Pence looked “strong” and like a “grown-up,” whereas Tim Kaine came across as “desperate.” Ouch! View the video here.

Vice presidential candidates Tim Kaine and Mike Pence went head-to-head for the first time at Longwood University in Farmville, Va. To help us through the debate, we enlisted the help of three of our political writers and columnists to act as judges. Each judge scored every round with a win, lose or draw and declared Pence the winner at the end. Head to Trail Guide for more updates, or check out what our judges thought of the first debate.

That’s when Pence jumped in to say that had Kaine’s son, or his own, done the same thing as Clinton, with regard to mishandling classified information, either of them would have been court marshaled. “If your son or my son handled classified information the way Hillary Clinton did, they would be court-martialed,” he said. “That is absolutely false and you know that,” Kaine said. “You know that.”

I hate the Hillary Ticket 10000% more right now, than I did an hour ago!

OK, I've never really seen or heard this guy up closely up until tonight. Not only did he appear to be very conniving, but creepy as well. Then, I go onto the Drudge page and see this picture. My head snapped. This guy is in Howard Dean territory and look like he belongs in a halfway house. This is what's supposed to pass as a co-leader? Ronald Reagan must be rolling in his grave.

Headline of the Day Poll Who won the VP Debate? Senator Tim Kaine (50%) Gov. Mike Pence (45%) It was a tie (5%)

Have been watching the Vice President Debate. Gov. Mike Pence was grace under fire. Sen. Tim Kaine was sure acting snarky. The debate moderator was either helping Sen. Kaine or simply lost control. It got so bad I had to turn it off. At least it will show folks how calm Gov. Pence even when the questions were focused on Mr. Donald J. Trump.

Serious question. He comes across as a PedoBear. Looks like a guy you'd see arrested for child porn on the local news.

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On July 22 Hillary Clinton announced Tim Kaine as her running mate. Kaine is a Democrat Senator from Virginia who supports a ban on 15-round “clips” and “assault weapons,” and who wants to enact a law to hold gun dealers liable for the misuse of firearms. During the June 26 airing of Meet the Press, Kaine told Chuck Todd that he voted for an “assault weapons” ban before and "would likely vote for it again." But he stressed that he believes “limitations on the size of magazines and ammunition clips” is the first step to take. Todd asked Kaine if he believes the...

As governor, Hillary’s High-Tax-Tim tried to hike taxes by billions of dollars If prospective Hillary Clinton running mate Tim Kaine had his way, Virginia residents would be paying billions in higher taxes. As governor, Kaine sought to impose nearly $4 billion in higher taxes, including an income tax hike on families earning as little as $17,000 a year. He pushed for tax hikes on businesses and higher taxes on distilled spirits and cigarettes: Income Tax Hike on Working Families: Kaine tried to Increase the bottom tax rate from 5.75% to 6.75%, directly affecting low income families earning as little as...

Standing between two 18-wheelers in the parking lot of a trucking company near Ashland, Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence said he’s looking forward to heading a little further south Tuesday morning for a “little bit of a debate” with Democratic counterpart Tim Kaine. "Hillary Clinton's record on foreign affairs alone could take up the whole 90 minutes. And it wouldn’t be a pretty picture,” Pence said Monday to a crowd of hundreds at a rally held at the Cox Transportation Services facility in Hanover County. While the Indiana governor said he expects much of the vice presidential debate, which...

Donald Trump's domination of social media and digital advertising during his campaign has been impressive, often time's staying one step ahead of mainstream news while dictating the trending headlines, but his latest move may "trump" all his previous strategies. Moments ago, a post appeared on Donald Trump's Facebook page with a single website address: ClintonKaine.com When navigating to that URL, it appears to be fully in the Trump campaign's control as they've set up a website with headlines critical of Clinton/Kaine in a format similar to the Drudge Report. The lead story directs visitors to a Politico article regarding the...

Texas is set to become the fourth state participating in the DNC's Victory Leaders Council program, which establishes groups of prominent state Democrats to work directly with the party operation in Washington. . . Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine, spent two days in the state last week, holding a Houston rally in which he declared that he and Clinton "take Texas very seriously." . . Texas Republicans have derided initiatives like the DNC's as superficial efforts to make the state look more competitive than it really is. On Wednesday, the state party responded to the Texas Victory Leaders Council by...

ORLANDO - While the political world was wrapped up in the commotion around Monday night's debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, Clinton's running mate Tim Kaine was in a wildly different setting very far away, marking and mourning one of the nation's worst tragedies up close. The Virginia senator was in Orlando for campaign events, and decided to make a quiet, unannounced stop at the site of the Pulse Nightclub shooting, a visit that aides say he felt very strongly about.

If you plan to root for Hillary Clinton in the first presidential debate Monday, you can watch alongside her vice presidential pick Tim Kaine in downtown Orlando. Kaine is scheduled to attend three events in Orlando on Monday and Tuesday, including a watch party for the debate, which is anticipated to be one of the most watched in decades. The string of events starts Monday at 4 p.m. when Kaine is scheduled to meet with Hispanic faith leaders at the Iglesia El Calvario church at 2500 West Oak Ridge Rd. The meeting is not open to the public.