I’ve been hearing nothing from concern-trolling since yesterday about how Kaine isn’t the guy the party needed to win over progressives, how they’re going to be the lynchpin to the party’s hopes to retake Congress, and how Hillary should have gone with Warren or Brown.

My response to that is that Kaine is the guy progressives need, not the one they wanted. Just looking at the way the GOP is scrambling to find something to hit Kaine with shows that they were not really prepared for taking on a VP nominee who has built a solid record of accomplishment without major controversy. When their leading line of attack is he took tickets to a basketball tournament, you know they’ve got nothin’.