why not both
Palin/Cruz
Cruz/Palin
With Morbo (Futurama) as Sec of Defense
“Puny Islamist...Morbo will crush you!”
Agree on Cruz, disagree on Palin. The better route for Palin would be to win the Senate seat in 2014, establish national bona fides, and run in 2020 if Cruz loses, or 2024 if he wins. Running for VP twice would make her a has-been, and running for POTUS in 2016 will be too soon to overcome her "I'm a dumb cluck" reputation with the low-information public. It will take another 6-10 years to establish a good reputation in the eyes of the low-information public, just as it did for Reagan in the 1970s.
[why not both
Palin/Cruz
Cruz/Palin]
I would go with Palin/Cruz, just because then there would be the possibility of having 16 years of sanity.