Billed as the ‘Safe Pick’ Tim Kaine Just Might be More Radical Than Hillary Clinton
When Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton selected U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) as her vice presidential running mate, the liberal mainstream media called him a “safe pick.”
But with Clinton’s health issues creeping back into the public discussion again, voters are scrutinizing the “safe pick” far more than perhaps they might in a typical election year. And what they’re finding is almost as disturbing as what they already know about the name at the top of the ticket.
Despite his billing as the “safe pick,” Kaine just might be more radical Clinton—at least on a few issues. WorldNetDaily compiled a long list of concerning facts about the senator, but here are a few:
Despite being a Catholic, which Kaine has said creates “a faith-based opposition to abortion,” he has also said, “I’m a strong supporter of Roe v. Wade.” He has vowed to “oppose efforts to weaken or subvert the basic holding of Roe v. Wade,” and asked if the Supreme Court should overturn its opinion, he said, “I don’t think the Supreme Court should … Roe vs. Wade is ultimately about saying that there is a realm of personal liberty for people to make this decision.”
Not only that, but Kaine opposes standards to ensure safe and sanitary conditions at abortion clinics, which he called “political grandstanding.” He also opposes laws requiring women to have ultrasounds before having an abortion, and supports public funding of abortion—voting against defunding Planned Parenthood, even after watching the Center for Medical Progress’ disturbing videos.
Kaine was one of 14 senators who wrote a letter to President Barack Obama in May of 2015 calling for “greatly increasing the number of Syrian refugees who are resettled in our country, invoking Job and saying “the United States has a moral obligation” to do so. But despite what he said during Tuesday night’s debate, he opposed a bill passed by the House in 2015 that would have required greater vetting of Syrian and Iraqi refugees.
As governor of Virginia, Kaine proposed $4 billion in total tax increases during his first week in office. He pushed for a $1 billion tax increase, but was unsuccessful. Two years later, he proposed a $1.1 billion plan to increase vehicle-registration fees and title taxes, and in his final year in office, he tried to increase the state’s income tax. In the Senate, he has called for raising federal taxes by $1 trillion over the next 10 years.
Kaine was one of only 12 senators who refused to sign a bipartisan letter to Obama, urging him not to provide aid to the Palestinian Authority after it formed a coalition government with the terrorist organization Hamas. He also strongly objected to the invitation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak to a joint session of Congress last year, and eventually boycotted the speech. The single biggest donor to his political campaigns is J Street, which even liberal attorney and former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz calls “the most damaging organization in American history against Israel.”
Kaine opposes school prayer, allowing religious non-governmental organizations from receiving federal funding, and posting the Ten Commandments in public places.
Kaine supporters same-sex “marriage,” and campaigned against an amendment to the Virginia Constitution to ban any legal recognition of same-sex relationships. He signed the amicus brief to the Supreme Court that claimed the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional, opposes protecting the biblical definition of marriage and favors protecting the “gender identity” of LGBT school students.
Kaine supports Common Core education standards, opposes school choice via vouchers and opposes charter schools. As governor, he eliminated all funds for abstinence-only sex education.
The WND report also notes Kaine’s “formative experiences under the tutelage of Marxists revolutionaries in Latin America” and his “associations in Washington with radical Muslims” as additional causes for concern. It reports:
On Sept. 2, the New York Times published a lengthy piece titled, “In Honduras, a spiritual and political awakening for Tim Kaine,” intended to show how his purported politics of compassion was grounded in faith when the then-22-year-old traveled to Honduras to volunteer with Jesuit missionaries, as civil wars raged through Central America.
What it showed instead was the roots of Kaine’s radicalism and a politics grounded in communist ideology. And what it neglected to mention was his mentors were mainstream Marxists virulently opposed to the United States. …
Also “deep” are Kaine’s ties to Islamic radicals in the United States, particularly in his home state of Virginia.
The man who could become a heartbeat from the presidency has developed close associations with numerous Muslim extremists over the last decade and the course of his political career.
