Hillary Clinton just picked a super-boring and overly cautious VP. Perfect!

This is the political equivalent of the prevent defense

Hillary Clinton chooses her running mate.
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After much wrangling, whispering, and surely plenty of backroom dealing, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has chosen Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate.

In case you haven't heard of Kaine, here's pretty much all you need to know: He is the most boring, conventional, and centrist liberal out of a roster of mostly boring, conventional, centrist liberals who Clinton was considering.

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Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper is a national correspondent at TheWeek.com. His work has appeared in the Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and the Washington Post.