Texas Senator Ted Cruz, arguably the most disliked member of the US Senate, desperately trying to survive until the Republican National Convention as a Presidential candidate, has chosen former rival, and former CEO of Hewlett Packard, Carly Fiorina, to be his running mate, with very little chance that the reality of them being a team will ever occur at the convention!
Fiorina is about as disgusting and obnoxious as Cruz, and does not add anything to Cruz of significance. If this is designed to help Cruz in next week’s Indiana primary, seen by many observers as the last chance for Cruz to survive until the convention as a candidate, then how does Fiorina do that?
And if the purpose was for Fiorina to help in the California primary, how is that possible, when Fiorina lost the US Senate race to Barbara Boxer in 2010 by a literal landslide, and then flopped badly in the 2016 Presidential sweepstakes?
All that Carly Fiorina is good for is as an attack dog against Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, but she was hard to watch during the campaign for the Presidency over this past year, and really has no special expertise, and no experience in government! Who would want her a heartbeat away from the Presidency? And if there was ever a serial liar, it is this woman!
So Ted Cruz has struck out by choosing Carly Fiorina!
If you want a really weird start to your day, check out Carly Fiorina “singing†to Ted Cruz’s kids.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/04/27/carly_fiorina_sings_lullaby_at_cruz_ticket_announcement.html
More evidence that this may be the most bizarre presidential election (on the Republican side, anyway) in U.S. history.
Agreed. That was very bizarre.
John of “Orange” had some choice words about Cruz. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/former-speaker-boehner-calls-cruz-lucifer-the-flesh
Rustbelt Democrat beat me to it.
Another source (for the hell of it):
@ http://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/04/28/john-boehner-talks-election-time-in-office/
I will say that I’m more comfortable with Donald Trump than Ted Cruz. (That is, if I had to say so. And I do say so.) Donald Trump has something in the way of judgment. Ted Cruz strikes me as one who would destroy his family (wife, kids), gladly, for the sake of enriching him even more financially, and is so excited that, if he were to become president, he could turn the country into a theocracy and do all sorts of evil things against everyone he chooses.
I’m thinking NBC’s “Saturday Night Live†will be presenting us with a Ted Cruz/Carly Fiorina sketch this week.
I like the running joke that Ted Cruz—as played by Taran Killam—is the very type of obnoxious politician who inspires everyone who meets him to want to punch him in his face.
@ https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/cast/taran-killam-15346/impersonation/ted-cruz-81346
Well…he does look like a devil with that nose of his.
Why do I get the feeling that if someone on this blog were to comment on another person’s appearance (someone with a “D” next to their name) in this way that everyone here would object to it?
I guess it is okay to say that Senator Ted Cruz looks “. . . like a devil with that nose of his”, due to the fact that he has an “R” next to his name or because his political views seem crazy to you.
Or am I wrong?
Mike, I do not approve of attacks, but it is well recognized that most people who read this blog are probably Democrats.
Certainly, enough Republicans everywhere have attacked Hillary on every imaginable way, including her appearance.
I would agree that it is better if it is avoided!
Ronald, I understand. I personally take issue with many of the ways in which Hillary Clinton has been mercilessly pursued by those on the right.
I’m just pointing out the apparent inconsistency in insulting someone on the right, when in fact if the same thing were said about someone on the left, then others on the left (including many readers of this blog) would be up in arms about it, and say something like, “How could you say such a thing?”, or “How mean spirited!” Although I recognize the same takes place on the right as well.
The deciding factor between the two (either being up in arms about the comment or making the comment yourself) ought not to be whether the person being insulted is on “my side” or not. That is my point, and with our more divided society, I feel more and more like nearly nobody recognizes this fact.
“What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”
Southern Liberal has a good point. Cruz’s appearance matches his sneaky personality.
I didn’t see Southern Liberal’s remarks as being insulting. I saw it as being sarcastic humor.
Former Republican, of course you wouldn’t find the remarks about Cruz as insulting.
You’ve made my point.
Mike,
You’re going to encounter things you won’t like at just about any blog you go to that isn’t right-wing. My advice is to ignore what you don’t like.
If everyone on this blog wants to sit back and just reinforce to each other what you already believe then please do so. I thought discussion was encouraged here; not just simply advising someone who may disagree to go somewhere else.
Forgive me for asking anyone to actually think or defend their views.
And by the way, I ask the same from those on a right-wing blog.
When your allegiance is to Christ, who is far above any political party, then you can actually see both sides for what they are. He is the source of Truth.
Great advice, Rustbelt.
Nobody is telling you to leave, Mike.
I don’t know about D, but on other left-wing blogs that the rest of us participate at, we have yet to see any right-wingers participate, hence, not much disagreeing over viewpoints. I guarantee you that if I read a blog that only right-wingers participated on, there wouldn’t be much disagreeing over viewpoints on that blog either.
Rational Lefty – I’ve always suspected that the reason for that is because the blogs that we participate at aren’t as highly popular.
Exactly. The blogs and media outlets the Professor has listed are more popular than the blogs we hang out at and are more likely where you’ll encounter right-wingers participating, resulting in more livelier discussions more often.
This is one of the blogs we hang out at from time to time. If you read through the comments, you’ll only encounter left-wingers, so, of course, there would be no disagreements. http://bpicampus.com/
CNN, MSNBC, Huffington Post, etc. is where you’ll encounter left-wingers disagreeing with right-wingers very frequently and much worse than you’ll encounter here.
Rustbelt wasn’t telling you to leave, Mike. He was telling you to be more thick-skinned on blogs like this.
The Cruz-Fiorina “marriage” didn’t last long. He announced he’s suspending his campaign.
In regards to Cruz dropping out of the race, a few quick thoughts on this: 1) good riddance to Ted Cruz, truly “Lucifer in the flesh†– nasty, bigoted, theocratic, crazy, dishonest, oily, extreme, etc. – as John Boehner said the other day; 2) the fact that the 2016 GOP nomination came down to a crazy, neo-fascistic, narcissistic conspiracy theorist (Trump) and the aforementioned “Lucifer†tells you all you need to know about today’s Republican Party (Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford and many other past Republicans are thrashing around in their graves right about now); 3) so much for almost every single political pundit who said for months that there was NO WAY Donald Trump would ever get the GOP nomination; 4) Donald Trump is not an aberration, he is a creation of Republicans’ decades of demonizing government, playing on people’s fears and prejudices, and appealing to the absolutely worst “angels†of human nature; 5) now, as Matthew Yglesias writes at Vox (www(dot)vox(dot)com/2016/5/3/11580772/indiana-results-trump), only a Democrat can stop this lunatic.
Fortunately, as Chris Cillizza points out (www(dot)washingtonpost(dot)com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/02/republicans-have-a-massive-electoral-map-problem-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-donald-trump/), Democrats start with a huge Electoral College advantage, and that’s not even taking into account how intensely dislike Trump is by so many Americans.
P.S. Ben Tribbett puts it well: “Donald J. Trump, Republican Nominee for President of the United States. Got to say, after spending the last eight years fanning the fires of crazy people, the GOP richly deserved this one.â€