The overwhelming reason why Hillary should make Bernie her running mate (even though she never, ever will)

Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders (Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder/Photo montage by Salon)
Now that we have a clear sense of the players in the forthcoming general election, and one of those two players is Donald Trump, I suppose it’s germane to have a serious conversation about vice presidential running-mates.
The so-called “veepstakes” is among the most obsessively observed events in all of American politics. Americans love the concept of mashups, and the pairing of