This past Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate, Ted Cruz, announced that, if he were nominated by the Republican Party for President, he would choose Carly Fiorina to be his running mate and candidate for Vice-President.
What Cruz hoped would look like a bold move actually looks like a fool’s errand since he has no mathematical path to the nomination and lags far behind Donald Trump.
Fiorina was a candidate for President herself from May 4, 2015 until February 10, 2016 when she suspended her campaign after finishing seventh in the New Hampshire Republican Primary. During that period she presented herself as the “anti-Hillary” boasting that she had more experience in world and foreign affairs than the Secretary of State. She argued that she could challenge Clinton more effectively on the debate stage than the male candidates and touted her rise to the top of the Hewlett-Packard Company.
What she did not tout was that under her leadership the company laid off 30,000 employees and she was forced to resign after the company lost half of its value.
In 2010 she ran for the United States Senate in California and was defeated soundly by Barbara Boxer.
As a Presidential candidate she advocated defunding Planned Parenthood based upon a widely discredited video made by an anti-abortion organization purporting to show organs being harvested from live fetuses. She continued to use the video as the basis of her proposal long after it had been discredited.
Ted Cruz like to fashion himself as being the second coming of Ronald Reagan even though his views are more aligned with the one-eyed Taliban leader, Mullah Omar. In choosing a running mate while the primary campaign is still in progress, he has taken a page out of the Gipper’s playbook.
During the 1976 campaign, when Reagan was trying to wrest the nomination from President Gerald Ford, Reagan named a prospective running mate, Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania. The difference was that Schweiker was a liberal Republican whose selection was designed to broaden Reagan’s appeal. Philosophically, Fiorina is Ted Cruz in a dress.
In January of this year, Fiorina told the Boston Herald Radio that; “Ted Cruz is a lawyer and a politician. He has never made an executive decision in his life. He has never created a job, he has never saved a job.”
Cruz might be better served if he chose Mullah Omar as a running mate.