We watched two candidates on different missions Tuesday night.  Kaine was instructed to trash Trump, and Pence was told not to take the bait.  Kaine failed, and Pence succeeded!     Kaine was forced to be a liberal, a rather uncomfortable place for a man who has carefully avoided the liberal corner as governor and now senator from Virginia.  After all, he would have never been nominated by that Democrat convention in North Carolina.  He was Mrs. Clinton's choice for two reasons: he is a white pro-life (after a fashion) male and very low-key person. On Monday night, Kaine was instructed to interrupt and just be plain nasty.  It did not work, as even Chris Cillizza pointed out: Someone must have told the Virginia senator he needed to always be on his front foot in the debate, always be the aggressor. It didn't work. Kaine started the debate talking so quickly and trying to load so many Trump attacks into every...(Read Full Post)