Who picks a vp running mate before the primaries have concluded? Most candidates wait until August for an poll boast going into the convention. Ted Cruz is scary stupid.
Who picks a vp running mate before the primaries have concluded? Most candidates wait until August for an poll boast going into the convention. Ted Cruz is scary stupid.
In this case I think the calculation is that he is a candidate who knows that he cannot get to 1237, and needs something new about his campaign to get people excited enough to vote for him and deny Trump the nomination. Picking a woman candidate mitigates the "historical nature" or the first woman nomination for president that is Hillary Clinton. Not to mention because Carly is a woman when she automatically has a get out of jail free card for saying whatever she wants about Hillary. Given all that I actually think it's good move in the short term.
lol Well to be fair the whole Republican Party seems pretty bizarre to me these days.
I think it's fair to say that the party is broken along ideological lines. I remember predicting 7-8 years ago that Obama had a slim to none chance of being re-elected and zero chance of having a democratic president should he get two terms, but then then the conservative bubble of lies happened, which was followed by the tea party, and finally Trump happened. We'll see what happens from here, but every day Trump is the front runner the more it looks like my prediction will ultimately be wrong
I don't know how I feel about this honestly. I have a working theory that the constant switch up between the two parties allowing the other to be in control for a while before switching again is a strange way for the country to keep to the center of the road over the decades which ultimately keeps us on a general path of prosperity. Currently though I think democrats have been pulled too far to the right to keep this concept chugging along smoothly, but that also makes it all the more important republicans don't obtain power until democrats pull them back to the left getting the center back closer to where it use to be.
@Serraph105: When one of the parties is ideological driven by and committed to empirically false ideas, switching from one party to the other doesn't keep things centered. It just enacts nonsense or encounters grid lock depending on the circumstances at the time.
Hell, Rand Paul is pushing legislation to repeal the entirety of anti trust laws as we speak.
@Serraph105: When one of the parties is ideological driven by and committed to empirically false ideas, switching from one party to the other doesn't keep things centered. It just enacts nonsense or encounters grid lock depending on the circumstances at the time.
Hell, Rand Paul is pushing legislation to repeal the entirety of anti trust laws as we speak.
I'm also not a fan of the 'switching the parties keeps us balanced' rhetoric. Switching back and forth doesn't necessarily provide balance, it only delays the inevitable and costs us time and money to undo mistakes.
lol at Rand Paul too. People like him, and Cruz with his gold standard mumbo jumbo, are bafoons. If they ever got to enact their insane economic policies it would be damaging. There would be no balancing.
It's either a desperation move because he doubts he will stop Trump on his own, or he is truly delusional and thinks he can actually win despite having nothing to support that.
It's either a desperation move because he doubts he will stop Trump on his own, or he is truly delusional and thinks he can actually win despite having nothing to support that.
Cruz knows he can't win the nomination the 1st round, but he is counting on 2nd round in a congested convention. So in naming his running mate, he hopes to stop trump from getting some delegates so that they can actually get into a congested convention.
@Serraph105: When one of the parties is ideological driven by and committed to empirically false ideas, switching from one party to the other doesn't keep things centered. It just enacts nonsense or encounters grid lock depending on the circumstances at the time.
Hell, Rand Paul is pushing legislation to repeal the entirety of anti trust laws as we speak.
I'm also not a fan of the 'switching the parties keeps us balanced' rhetoric. Switching back and forth doesn't necessarily provide balance, it only delays the inevitable and costs us time and money to undo mistakes.
lol at Rand Paul too. People like him, and Cruz with his gold standard mumbo jumbo, are bafoons. If they ever got to enact their insane economic policies it would be damaging. There would be no balancing.
Rand Paul was America's last choice for a sane person Hillary and the rest of the filed are not Sane.
@Serraph105: When one of the parties is ideological driven by and committed to empirically false ideas, switching from one party to the other doesn't keep things centered. It just enacts nonsense or encounters grid lock depending on the circumstances at the time.
Hell, Rand Paul is pushing legislation to repeal the entirety of anti trust laws as we speak.
I'm also not a fan of the 'switching the parties keeps us balanced' rhetoric. Switching back and forth doesn't necessarily provide balance, it only delays the inevitable and costs us time and money to undo mistakes.
lol at Rand Paul too. People like him, and Cruz with his gold standard mumbo jumbo, are bafoons. If they ever got to enact their insane economic policies it would be damaging. There would be no balancing.
Rand Paul was America's last choice for a sane person Hillary and the rest of the filed are not Sane.
Yeeeeah, research Ron Paul. When someone says "I am a doctor, so I know life begins at conception, therefore abortion cannot be allowed." you are listening to a crazy person. Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in awhile, as he had a few good ideas on mild financial reform, and a lessening of military domination. Two good ideas within a thicket of 800 crazy ones does not make you a good, or sane candidate.
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