Posted on 04/27/2016 11:56:39 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz has tapped former technology executive Carly Fiorina as his running mate in the race for the White House.
The Texas senator plans to formally unveil his pick for vice president Wednesday afternoon in Indianapolis.
That's according to a Republican with direct knowledge of the plan, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized speak before the official announcement.
Cruz is trying to generate momentum for his struggling campaign. GOP front-runner Donald Trump swept primaries in five Northeastern states on Tuesday.
Cruz has been mathematically eliminated from winning enough delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination before primary voting ends.
But he's pushing to claim the nomination at a contested national convention in July.
The 61-year-old Fiorina endorsed Cruz earlier in the year after abandoning her own presidential bid. The former chief executive at Hewlett-Packard has never held elected office.
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I forgot about that 500K. I thought at first this was a bad idea for Rafeal Ted Cruz Jr. from Canada. Yet I can see it now, Trump will go after iCarlys record when she was with HP and then types like Meygan and Hillary can scream how he hates women.
I followed that senate race of hers in Cali. I didn’t like her then either.
Look for Plan Parenthood to end again
“...he didn’t pick Rubio...”
Well said. “Rubio probably turned Ted down” is right and Rubio is hoping for a deal with Trump if he (Rubio) has any talent at all for strategy and long term planning. I don’t know if Trump will deal with him or not, but such a (hypothetical) deal would be in Rubio’s best interest that’s for sure.
Good point.
Breaking news: I’m about to announce my running mate too!
What? Nobody cares? Go figure...
er, did I miss something?
was last night just a fog from too much JD?
I believe the right word is “pathetic”.
Same here. My saw it instantly in the first debate. The guy completely creeped her out. She is not the political junkie that I am, but she has good instinct.
Fiorina lost in a bloodbath in California. This is madness.
"I would say that Ted Cruz is just like any other politician. He says one thing in Manhattan. He says another thing in Iowa. He says whatever he needs to say to get elected and then he's going to do as he pleases. I think the American people are tired of the political class that promises much and delivers much of the same."
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On "'Meet the Press', she called upon Congress to pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act. The bill would immunize companies like Google from lawsuits resulting from consumer information shared with government. The effect would be a massive institutional rollback of personal privacy.
“There is a level of collaboration that’s required between the private sector and the public sector to detect and repel attacks,” Fiorina said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “That requires an act of Congress. There is a bill that’s been languishing, frankly, in Congress for several years now. We need to get that bill passed so that level of collaboration is possible.” "Outside of passing the cyberbill, Fiorina said, “It’s important to recognize that these cyberattacks that have been going on against the federal government systems, none of those are a surprise … We’ve known for over a decade the Chinese were coming after our most important systems."
****** Fiorina majored in medieval history at Stanford yet weeks after 9/11 claimed in a direct quote of Fiorina's text comprising the last 500 words of a 3,600-word speech given on September 26, 2001 about Islamic civilization - "There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world." As disgusting as the timing of that September 2001 declaration was, it clearly was not the only time Fiorina spoke of Islam with resplendent admiration.... Carly Fiorina, “Gaslighting”, Islam, Her Relationship To Clinton Global Initiative, and Progressive Agenda…
"Please read the
and pay close attention to the closing paragraphs. What you will note is an almost eerie similarity to current Secretary of State John Kerry vis-a-vis the “Jobs for Jihad” program he, and his globalist co-horts, have been advocating for the past three years.
Read everything written by Fiorina and then ...
Next example – look at the following reception by
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Choice quotes from the link provided:
Fiorina opposition research report "As a surrogate for John McCain's campaign, Fiorina was essentially kicked off the McCain campaign when she said that neither John McCain nor Sarah Palin could run a major corporation."
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Another item worthy of mention given the above detail she was fired from the McCain campaign:
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***** Fiorina Named 19th Worst CEO of ALL Time. In May 2009, Portfolio compiled lists of the 20 best and 20 worst CEOs ever. Fiorina was 19th on the "Worst CEOs" list, with the magazine writing, "A consummate self-promoter, Fiorina was busy pontificating on the lecture circuit and posing for magazine covers while her company floundered. She paid herself handsome bonuses and perks while laying off thousands of employees to cut costs. The merger Fiorina orchestrated with Compaq in 2002 was widely seen as a failure. She was ousted in 2005." Portfolio also noted that HP stock lost half its value while Fiorina was CEO. [Porfolio, 5/09]
"What led to her firing, finally, was the disconnect between the company's erratic performance and her insistence that the strategy was great and everything was just fine. "
“Ten years after she (FioRINO) was fired from HP, why has she NEVER gotten a job offer to be Chief Executive of ANY company?”
To mathematically eliminate trump from the race. Silly question.
I guess Cruz and Fiorina plan to rule over a trailer park in West Texas.
“Our Gal” couldn’t even beat the dimwitted Barbara Boxer. With her not so stellar track record in business, she will provide more than enough ammo for the ‘rats. Why would Ted even name a running mate? He is over 400 delegates behind and this is never done until the convention. Got desperation?
Ted is Cruzlusional.
Maybe he meant it in another way “I’ll Tap that”-)
I think Trump ought to speak right after this stupid announcement!
Did it say “tap” or “copulate”?
It wasn’t just 3rd place, it was last place
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