A Thought Exercise

So Wednesday the wife gets a call from one of the Friday regulars at Nellie's Cafe---"Don't forget Friday is Good Friday and Nellie's will be closed.  Didn't want you and Bill to miss your weekly chile."  No problem---I'll just call in our order Thursday and go pick it up.  Which I did.  But I should have guessed there were changes there when, after I gave my order, Josie asked "And how do you want your eggs?"  Obviously she didn't realize to whom she was speaking.  In person, I don't ever have to tell her what I want.  When I got there, Nellie's was locked up tight, no lights on but big signs in the windows proclaiming them to be OPEN.  I called, Josie answered and said she'd be right out.  I guess thanks to the newest lockdown proclamations they had to close the front door where in the past they had a table set up to collect monies and hand out orders.  Now Josie comes out the back dooor, gets the payment, goes back in and then delivers the order.  When she came out and saw me, she said "It's not Friday!!"  I shot back "So that's why you asked how I wanted my eggs!!"  And we maintained our social distancing while we laughed......So that's my covid-tribution for today.

Now that Bernie is out of the Democratic race, all the news outlets are calling Biden the nominee and there's a focus on the number two slot.  I guess the most prominent suggestions are female senators like Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, and Amy Klobuchar or Governors Gretchen Whitmer of MI and our own Michelle Lujan Grisham of NM.
How about thinking in a different way about this.  Why pick a democratic senator for the post?  Isn't it just as important, if not more important, to get control of the Senate, especially if the incumbent is re-elected?  Now if Kamala or Amy were to be VP, their seats might not flip since both CA and MN have democratic governors who'd likely appoint a Democrat to fill the seat.  Not the case in MA with Warren and a Republican governor.  And in the middle of a pandemic, do we really want to lose effective governors?  Now Stacie Abrams is high  on a lot of lists but does she have the experience to be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office?
Bear with me on this and I'd love to hear your thoughts---personally this option nauseates me but--- how about Vice-President Hillary Rodham Clinton?  Don't know how having two old white establishment figures at the head of the party would play in the general election but HRC does have the chops to be VP---former First Lady and Secretary of State.  Don't really see Pence doing very well on the VP debate stage against her.  And leaving the female Senators in place with the possible additions of Mark Kelly in AZ and Steve Bullock in MT would help with wresting control of the Senate from the GOP.  And Amy McGrath is within the margin of error in her contest with McConnell in TN----wouldn't it be great to retire the Turtle!
As I said, this would not be my first option but isn't thinking about this a great way to give your poor overburdened overstressed mind a breask from corona virus coverage?