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To: AuntB

Assuming he gets the nomination, he has to go with somebody with political experience and stature in the party. Carly’s an amateur and makes Cruz look amateurish, and would anybody on the fence really decide to vote for Ted because Carly’s on his ticket?

30 posted on 04/25/2016 1:58:30 PM PDT by x

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I tend to agree with your musings from a few days ago, than your posting today.

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Assuming he gets the nomination, he has to go with somebody with political experience and stature in the party. Carly’s an amateur and makes Cruz look amateurish, and would anybody on the fence really decide to vote for Ted because Carly’s on his ticket?

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Ted Cruz is in a tough spot now. He could have waited for the convention and -- if he got the nomination -- gone with somebody with more experience and stature, but whose to say he'd get the nomination? It's a long shot -- a "Hail Mary Pass." But what else is he going to do? And IMHO it's designed more with the convention in mind than the November election.

If somebody takes McCain's comment to mean that Carly is warm and sweet and will make Ted Cruz all warm and fuzzy it's wrong, but Ted has so many sharp corners that even somebody like Carly could round them off a little. I suspect it's a bit more of an after-the-fact rationalization than anything else, but Ted's in an almost desperate spot now and I can't blame him for grasping at whatever hope he can come up with.