Gross! For the taste of this Sanders voter, it had better be (and thankfully probably will be) someone like Elizabeth Warren or Sherrod Brown or else I reserve the right to vote for Jill Stein of the Green Party in protest. Fortunately though, all indications are that it will be Warren. The Clinton campaign is transparently raising the hopes of the left that it will be Warren in numerous ways, perhaps the most direct of which is Clinton's decision to host a joint campaign event with Warren tomorrow. No word on any planned joint campaign events with the other ostensible VP prospects!
I would respect Hillary Clinton more if she picked Elizabeth Warren because doing so would dry up Clinton's Wall Street donor base. In fact, her Wall Street donors are already openly threatening to abandon her if (...okay, at this point it's really more like WHEN) she does. GOOD, I say! That would prove that she's serious about cracking down on the financial oligarchs that pretty much run the world right now. I don't think I'll trust her on that crucial matter if she chooses someone less progressive. I say it's high time to leave Wall Street and corporate interests out in the cold, saddled with someone like Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party, and thus transform the Democratic Party into an authentically populist institution that represents working class people again!
Incidentally, some of you may recall that even before this campaign began, I predicted that if Hillary Clinton ran and was nominated, she would be forced to run a relatively populist, anti-corporate campaign. Being as it now very clearly appears that that's where this is headed, I will now accept the apologies of those who denied my foresight on that.
Hell, some of you back then even predicted that Clinton wouldn't run at all!