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Ted Vetting Carly for Veep
Michael Warren of The Weekly Standard discovered today that Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is vetting Carly Fiorina as a possible running mate.
According to a spokeswoman for Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and one-time presidential candidate is being vetted by Cruz’s campaign.
“Normal stuff,” said Sarah Isgur Flores, who served as deputy campaign manager during Fiorina’s bid, when asked about the process. She added that Fiorina has met with members of the Cruz campaign and has given them financial disclosures and other documentation. Flores added that “no offers” have been made.
Several people have pondered if Cruz should announce his Veep pick in the midst of primary season to build momentum and help voters visualize what a Cruz administration would look like. Although she didn’t rack up delegates, Fiorina is a better communicator than Cruz and showed real talent in marrying jabs of the stilletto with a positive vision of the future. It also helped that she emphatically endorsed the Texas senator back in March while other presidential candidates continue to sit out the race.
All indications show that Tuesday’s primaries will go badly for Cruz. An announcement of Fiorina in the two-slot would be a public relations coup that would energize his voters in Indiana and California. It also might give a reluctant press a reason to talk about him instead of the orange-sheened frontrunner for a couple hours.
Do you think Fiorina is a good pick? If not, who would you recommend for Cruz’s running mate?
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Do it!
He’s leaking a pick that will excite delegates.
EDIT: And, potentially, California’s GOP primary voters
Do it, Ted! I would have voted for Carly in the South Carolina primary, but she had already dropped out. I voted for Ted instead.
Do it, Ted! Announce your cabinet too. Force Trump to announce his choices for his Veep and cabinet.
And do it quickly. Time is running out . . .
I love the rhetroical force of this. What I would do is say – “here’s my team Trump, where’s yours?” and not name them to specific posts, it seems presumptuous.
All VP picks “only excite political junkies.” Typical voters barely notice and don’t much care if they do. When polled to select the name of the VP they can’t do it. Back in the day when Parties were machines, perhaps it mattered somewhat more. Those days are long gone.
Now, what VP picks also do is platter-feed MSM a narrative. Battle of the She-Devils will keep them busy for months, and Hillary won’t come out on top. That’s because Carly has actually done something in her life other than fail miserably when handed leadership roles and viciously attack women her husband sexually assaulted. Carly had to earn what she achieved, and she did extraordinarily well at it. Clinton protected a criminal by trashing his victims, who happened to be women that didn’t have the benefit of Ivy League undergrad and law degrees as she did.
The question is whether the GOP has the brass to exploit Clinton’s vulnerabilities . . . with Carly, they will.
Trump is preferable to a significant number of voters. Not enough to win, but enough to put pressure on those who don’t like him but can live with him.