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TeamPooka

(24,226 posts) Thu Apr 28, 2016, 04:13 AM Apr 2016

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

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.

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I just realized Cruz picked Carly because he thinks she will help him win California. (Original Post) TeamPooka Apr 2016 OP

Maybe in the primary but not the GE sakabatou Apr 2016 #1

I'm only talking about GOP primary here. TeamPooka Apr 2016 #6

Maybe. Plus 2 or 3 days in the news when he Hortensis Apr 2016 #18

She is hated here. onecaliberal Apr 2016 #2

I'm in LA, I know how she is reviled. I don't think Cruz knows. :) nt TeamPooka Apr 2016 #7

Who else could he get (from CA) that would be so stupid as to work with him? seamonkey58 Apr 2016 #11

She actually lost to Sen Boxer. Meg Whitman lost to Jerry Brown. She is still a idiot either way... winstars Apr 2016 #15

What's her name has a better gig Brother Buzz Apr 2016 #21

Fiorina's name is mud in the Bay Area. RandySF Apr 2016 #3

Saw a meme on FB tonight ... NanceGreggs Apr 2016 #4

Someone also commented... pinboy3niner Apr 2016 #5

For an experienced CEO Carly Fiorina broke the first rule of business today. TeamPooka Apr 2016 #8

Lol. I'm pretty sure she's doing temp work these days. Hortensis Apr 2016 #20

Or A Dead Horse To A Broken Wagon.... global1 Apr 2016 #10

"Wagon must have lost a wheel or they lacked ambition" IDemo Apr 2016 #13

Cruz is hated in Texas, Carly is hated in California, seems like a winning team. Thinkingabout Apr 2016 #9

Has this ever happened before? Proud Liberal Dem Apr 2016 #12

It's a first. nt TeamPooka Apr 2016 #14

I'm pretty sure it's Cruz's version of flying Hortensis Apr 2016 #22

Yes, 1976. Raine1967 Apr 2016 #16

She also left California for a DC suburb after her loss in Raine1967 Apr 2016 #17

I think Cruz picked her to attack Clinton. Raine1967 Apr 2016 #19

He gets a woman card and the deck's joker all in one card. TeamPooka Apr 2016 #25

Yup. Raine1967 Apr 2016 #29

He has a strategery for CA KamaAina Apr 2016 #23

It's a smart move. I'm in the SFV and we never have a GOP cadidate in the top two TeamPooka Apr 2016 #24

It's odd that he will pick a vp even when he isn't the nominee.very premature and desperate. SummerSnow Apr 2016 #26

Something tells me Cruz is used to going off prematurely. nt TeamPooka Apr 2016 #27

How right you are. I bet Trump wanted to say something so bad about her when he found out. SummerSnow Apr 2016 #28

sakabatou

(42,152 posts)

1. Maybe in the primary but not the GE

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 04:15 AM

Apr 2016

TeamPooka

(24,226 posts)

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

Reply to sakabatou (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 04:58 AM

Apr 2016

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

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

Reply to TeamPooka (Reply #6)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 01:00 PM

Apr 2016

really needed a kick.

onecaliberal

(32,861 posts)

2. She is hated here.

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 04:28 AM

Apr 2016

TeamPooka

(24,226 posts)

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

Reply to onecaliberal (Reply #2)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 04:59 AM

Apr 2016

seamonkey58

(19 posts)

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

Reply to TeamPooka (Reply #7)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 07:25 AM

Apr 2016

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

(4,220 posts)

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

Reply to seamonkey58 (Reply #11)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 12:49 PM

Apr 2016

Brother Buzz

(36,433 posts)

21. What's her name has a better gig

Reply to seamonkey58 (Reply #11)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 01:06 PM

Apr 2016

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

RandySF

(58,831 posts)

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

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 04:30 AM

Apr 2016

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

NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)

4. Saw a meme on FB tonight ...

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 04:36 AM

Apr 2016

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

pinboy3niner

(53,339 posts)

5. Someone also commented...

Reply to NanceGreggs (Reply #4)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 04:43 AM

Apr 2016

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

TeamPooka

(24,226 posts)

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

Reply to NanceGreggs (Reply #4)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 05:00 AM

Apr 2016

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

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

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

Reply to TeamPooka (Reply #8)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 01:04 PM

Apr 2016

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

(25,247 posts)

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

Reply to NanceGreggs (Reply #4)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 07:16 AM

Apr 2016

Works either way.

IDemo

(16,926 posts)

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

Reply to global1 (Reply #10)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 08:05 AM

Apr 2016

From "Levelland", by James McMurty

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

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

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 05:26 AM

Apr 2016

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

(24,412 posts)

12. Has this ever happened before?

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 08:03 AM

Apr 2016

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

TeamPooka

(24,226 posts)

14. It's a first. nt

Reply to Proud Liberal Dem (Reply #12)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 12:07 PM

Apr 2016

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

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

Reply to TeamPooka (Reply #14)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 01:06 PM

Apr 2016

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

(11,589 posts)

16. Yes, 1976.

Reply to Proud Liberal Dem (Reply #12)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 12:55 PM

Apr 2016

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

(11,589 posts)

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

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 12:58 PM

Apr 2016

California.

Supposed some still associate her with California.

Raine1967

(11,589 posts)

19. I think Cruz picked her to attack Clinton.

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 01:01 PM

Apr 2016

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

(24,226 posts)

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

Reply to Raine1967 (Reply #19)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 03:46 PM

Apr 2016

Raine1967

(11,589 posts)

29. Yup.

Reply to TeamPooka (Reply #25)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 03:58 PM

Apr 2016

it's all very transparent to me.

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

23. He has a strategery for CA

Reply to TeamPooka (Original post)

Thu Apr 28, 2016, 01:12 PM

Apr 2016

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