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Carly Fiorina For Vice-President?
How do you know when a 2nd string presidential candidate is desperate? When he names a running mate long before ever getting close to winning the nomination, that’s how. Not surprisingly, that is exactly what GOP hopeful Ted Cruz did on Wednesday when he announced former Hewlett-Packard Chair Carly Fiorina as his choice for VP.
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“After a great deal of consideration and prayer, I have come to the conclusion that if I am nominated to be President of the United States that I will run on a ticket with my vice presidential nominee Carly Fiorina,” Cruz said during a rally in Indianapolis.
Carly Fiorina then joined Cruz on stage while his staff changed the podium banner to display a new logo featuring both of their names.
“Ted could not be more right in what he said: There is a lot at stake, and in fact, this is a fight, this is a fight for the soul of our party and the future of our nation,” Fiorina said. “I’ve had tough fights all my life. Tough fights don’t worry me a bit.” Oddly, she then broke into an impromptu song from all the excitement of being chosen.
The unusual move to make a VP pick after collecting only 40% of the delegates required to seize the nomination is an obvious last-ditch effort by Cruz to remain relevant. His belief is that by naming a running mate, those voters who were not racing to the polls to support him, might magically race to the polls to support him AND Fiorina. It’s what football fans call a “Hail Mary” pass.
After a stunning defeat in the 5 election contests on Tuesday, combined with the all-important primary next week in Indiana, Ted Cruz needed to make a splash. However, out of all the splashes he could have made, why pick Carly Fiorina? What exactly does she bring to the table that would help Cruz move the needle in his favor?
Fiorina ran her own GOP presidential campaign on the coattails of her business “experience” as head of Hewlett-Packard. However, she also nearly ran HP into the ground with her bad deals and total lack of business acumen. Still, that didn’t stop her from accepting the call of duty from Ted Cruz, despite an apparent bout of temporary amnesia in how she once described the Texas senator:
“Ted Cruz is just like any other politician; he says whatever he needs to say to get elected.”
The early selection of Carly Fiorina as his supposed “running mate” not only proves Ted Cruz will say whatever, but will also do whatever to get elected.
There are times when I could just fall on the floor laughing my behind off at Repub nonsense….but I refrain from doing so because I know exactly what's at stake in this year's election. God forbid that one of those dangerous yahoos actually gets elected to the Presidency….smh. But I digress. In 2008, John McCain threw caution to the wind and, in desperation, chose Sarah Palin as his VP (a woman totally Incapable of speaking in complete and coherent sentences, let alone qualified to be one heart-beat away for the most powerful position in the World) I knew then that the GOP has entered the stage of Dying. Fast-forward to the present: Exactly 8 yrs after McCain pulled his disqualifying *Hail Vagina* stunt, Cruz decides (out of desperation) to pull a *Hail Vagina* stunt of his own hoping to give his failing campaign a boost and help him win the… Read more »