Is Julian Castro ready to be president on day one?**

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No, but Hilda Solis certainly would be, having served in the California State Assembly, Congress, as Labor Secretary during President Obama's first term, and now as a Los Angeles county supervisor.  She has deep ties to the environmental, labor, and immigrant rights movements.  

She is also someone that Hillary Clinton could trust, having been a strong supporter of hers during the 2008 primaries, up until Hillary finally threw down the towel and conceded to Barack Obama.

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No, but Hilda Solis certainly would be, having served in the California State Assembly, Congress, as Labor Secretary during President Obama's first term, and now as a Los Angeles county supervisor.  She has deep ties to the environmental, labor, and immigrant rights movements.  

She is also someone that Hillary Clinton could trust, having been a strong supporter of hers during the 2008 primaries, up until Hillary finally threw down the towel and conceded to Barack Obama.

True, she has some actual progressive credentials.

Hillary Clinton/Hilda Solis would be a solid ticket.  Far more so than some of the others being thrown about...   

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I doubt Clinton will put two women on ticket.

It will come down to Kaine or Castro.

Given the lackluster Republican field, she is favored enough in the general election that she can afford to take a risk with having another woman on the ticket. And the Clintons prize loyalty, so that gives the advantage to Hilda Solis right there.  

As to your favored candidates, Castro is unfit for such a high office.  In fact, it would bring up comparisons to John McCain picking Sarah Palin, however unfair you may think them.  I don't see Hillary wanting to deal with that.  

And why would she endanger a Senate seat in a swing state?  Even if Gov. McAuliffe appoints a Democrat to take Tim Kaine's place, we have no way of knowing if that replacement will survive the 2018 midterms.  

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Palin was Gov of AK. A small state. Only Lisa Murkowski is known. Castro is from TX., a big state.

Irrelevant.  

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He isn't ready, period.  Nor will he ever be. It is unfortunate for him that Texas is so Republican he cannot gain more electoral experience, but that's just how the dice were cast.  

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It isn't so much about consolidating the Latino or women vote as about reassuring the country that she has a ready and qualified successor waiting in the wings in case something happens to her -without endangering any vulnerable (or potentially vulnerable) Senate or gubernatorial seats in the process.  A qualify that Hilda Solis provides.  

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Castro will be picked. Hilda Solis or Kaine wont be picked. Solis being a female, and Kaine voted for Fast Track. And a host of GOP govs represents Dem senators. Castro is 40 and excites y2k generation.

Repeating yourself ad nauseum isn't going to make it so.

And anyway, I'm done arguing with you. 

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If the GOP were to pick someone half-way competent, then it would make sense for Hillary to err on the side of caution and go for a male running-mate.  Since it appears the base is insisting on electoral suicide next November, I think she can take a chance with a female running-mate (like Hilda Solis) instead, and go full-throttle grrrl power.