They'll Be Dropping Like Flies -- Re-Handicapping the 2016 Republican Presidential Candidates

Ted Cruz, America's first openly avowed sapiosexual presidential candidate, is of course going to have a woman on his ticket.

 

Thing is Haley has a credible day job. No incentive to tie herself to a sinking ship.

Fiorina on the other hand is damaged goods ... this is a ploy to keep her name in the spotlight for another 15 minutes. At this point expanding her name recognition is all that's left .... I can see a modest book deal eventually and the conservative speaking tour circuit

 

If he wants to look at female CEO's of tech companies whose stock prices have cratered, Marissa Mayer at Yahoo will be looking for something to do soon. At least she doesn't have the stink of Presidential primary loser on her.

 

That rooted for Iowa in the Rose Bowl. Against Stanford.

 

Ted Cruz has gone full gimmick.

So much for losing with dignity.

 

I agree with you but I think Cruz might be thinking this will give him a bump in Californi-A:

California Republican Senate primary, 2010
Candidate Votes Percentage
Carly Fiorina 1,315,429 56.4%
Tom Campbell 504,289 21.7%
Chuck DeVore 452,577 19.3%
Al Ramirez 42,149 1.8%
Tim Kalemkarian 19,598 0.8%

 

I agree that he's thinking that, but how much pull does she still have there? She doesn't even live in California anymore.

 

In the senate primary, she bested the combined vote for her two major opponents pretty much everywhere except in the Bay Area. She got clobbered in the Bay Area. (Santa Clara -- Silicon Valley -- was her worst county, IIRC.) That's the generous take on what she brings to Cruz.

The not so generous take: what CA GOPers mostly remember about Carly Fiorina is that she's a loser. Specifically that she lost to Barbara Boxer in the general election. So what in that sense does she bring to Cruz in California? The odor of a losing campaign - which he had already.

 

Fiorina lost in a huge GOP year to a pretty far-left septugenarian who was ripe for the taking in 2010. Then she split the state.

Yeah, Fiorina is real popular in Cali these days.

 

Remember, she only has to be popular among California GOP primary voters -- which is a relatively small slice of the California electorate. But like I said, even still, I don't think she's terribly popular even among them.

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I'm starting to think the Fiorina as VP thing has little to do with California. Maybe it's just a sad play for female GOP voters in Indiana. In some way, that's the more plausible and certainly the more immediate explanation.

 

Ooooh, yeah. Interactions.

Playa's gonna interact.

Hate the game, not the player...

 

Orange Man speaks and its a doozie:

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/04/28/john-boehner-talks-election-time-in-office/

2016 Presidential election

Much of the discussion – and laughs – focused on Boehner’s views on the current presidential candidates. Segueing into the topic, Kennedy asked Boehner to be frank given that the event was not being broadcasted, and the former Speaker responded in kind. When specifically asked his opinions on Ted Cruz, Boehner made a face, drawing laughter from the crowd.

“Lucifer in the flesh,” the former speaker said. “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”


Boehner described other Republican candidates as friends. In particular, the former speaker said he has played golf with Donald Trump for years and that they were “texting buddies.”

His friendship with Ohio Governor John Kasich, however, was a little more ambiguous.

“[Kasich] requires more effort on my behalf than all my other friends … but he’s still my friend, and I love him,” Boehner said.

Boehner for the most part accepted Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee, though he did express his surprise at the candidate’s success. While he did not praise Trump’s policies, the Speaker did say he would vote for Trump in the general election if he becomes the Republican nominee. The former Speaker said he would not, however, vote for Cruz.

 

Orange is fine by me. Listen to this board, where every Republican is guilty before acting, and you would have believed that Boehner was the same as Ted Cruz. But you know, he wasn't.

 

But he was speaking, mainly for the vocal minority of Ted Cruz's of his party. They controlled/forced the words out of him and made his job impossible, so they were a lot more similar than different.

 

But he already has the reptile vote locked up.

 

You should be more specific because there is more than one orange man these days.

 

The hair or racoon eyes beats his orange complexion every day. Boehner is orange man.

 

What did Colbert call him - Dorito-American?

 

I don't think Ted Cruz does anything "with dignity".

 

This makes me glad I never went to Syracuse.

 

Unless it was for broadcast journalism, you would have gotten a better bang for your buck at a SUNY.