I just realized Cruz picked Carly because he thinks she will help him win California.

[TeamPooka]

She did win a Republican primary here in CA before she got her ass kicked by Barbara Boxer in the GE.
Cruz must think this is how can stop Drumpf.
It's the only explanation I can why he really picked her.

[sakabatou]

1. Maybe in the primary but not the GE

[TeamPooka]

6. I'm only talking about GOP primary here.

[Hortensis]

18. Maybe. Plus 2 or 3 days in the news when he

really needed a kick.

[onecaliberal]

2. She is hated here.

[TeamPooka]

7. I'm in LA, I know how she is reviled. I don't think Cruz knows. :) nt

[seamonkey58]

11. Who else could he get (from CA) that would be so stupid as to work with him?

Maybe what's her name who ran for governor? She got creamed by Jerry Brown, and he didn't campaign very hard to do it.

[winstars]

15. She actually lost to Sen Boxer. Meg Whitman lost to Jerry Brown. She is still a idiot either way...

[Brother Buzz]

21. What's her name has a better gig

She has Fiorina's old job at HP. Go figure.

[RandySF]

3. Fiorina's name is mud in the Bay Area.

She's been a failure everywhere she worked, especially HP.

[NanceGreggs]

4. Saw a meme on FB tonight ...

... which I think sums it up: "Cruz picking Carly as his VP is like hitching a broken wagon to a dead horse."

[pinboy3niner]

5. Someone also commented...

If I were about to lay off my campaign staff, I'd hire Carly too.

[TeamPooka]

8. For an experienced CEO Carly Fiorina broke the first rule of business today.

She accepted a position from a guy not authorized to offer her the job.

[Hortensis]

20. Lol. I'm pretty sure she's doing temp work these days.

Job description: Token female candidate. Remuneration negotiable. Reply confidentially.

Not many have the special qualifications for these jobs, and virtually none of those down and out enough to consider them.

[global1]

10. Or A Dead Horse To A Broken Wagon....

Works either way.

[IDemo]

13. "Wagon must have lost a wheel or they lacked ambition"

From "Levelland", by James McMurty

[Thinkingabout]

9. Cruz is hated in Texas, Carly is hated in California, seems like a winning team.

He is a loser in my books well before he was elected Senator. When he bragged about being in the bag with Arpaio I knew he was not needed in the Senate.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. Has this ever happened before?

A Presidential nominee- not even in first place- selecting a VP candidate? This doesn't make any sense.

[TeamPooka]

14. It's a first. nt

[Hortensis]

22. I'm pretty sure it's Cruz's version of flying

off to Rome to jump-start a sputtering campaign. It's already gotten him a couple days of pretty strong, if not exactly flattering, media coverage.

[Raine1967]

16. Yes, 1976.

Reagan nominated nominated Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_presidential_primaries,_1976

"The race for the nomination was the last one by the Republicans not to have been decided by the start of the party convention."

[Raine1967]

17. She also left California for a DC suburb after her loss in

California.

Supposed some still associate her with California.

[Raine1967]

19. I think Cruz picked her to attack Clinton.

He now has Carly to say anything and then say it not sexism (etc.,) and that because I am a woman.

What Cruz is doing is the textbook definition of playing the Woman card, OMO.

She did that very thing while she was still running for the nomination.

[TeamPooka]

25. He gets a woman card and the deck's joker all in one card.

[Raine1967]

29. Yup.

it's all very transparent to me.

[KamaAina]

23. He has a strategery for CA

Our repukes apportion their delegates equally by CD, regardless of whether the district is full of repukes as in Orange County or Bakersfield, or solidly Dem as in the Bay Area or L.A. County. Cruz' people are looking to pick off the so-called "empty" (that is, Dem) districts.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/104013549

[TeamPooka]

24. It's a smart move. I'm in the SFV and we never have a GOP cadidate in the top two

GE runoff now under the new(ish) rules.

[SummerSnow]

26. It's odd that he will pick a vp even when he isn't the nominee.very premature and desperate.

[TeamPooka]

27. Something tells me Cruz is used to going off prematurely. nt

[SummerSnow]

28. How right you are. I bet Trump wanted to say something so bad about her when he found out.

That Twitter finger was buzzing.lol