To be sure, it’s an unconventional move deciding on a vice presidential candidate to serve as your running mate, when most people don’t appear to want you to be president. But that’s just the type of guy Ted Cruz is—he lives outside the box! New, freewheelin’ Ted, of course, made his “major announcement” Wednesday anointing Carly Fiorina as his running mate… for president. Cruz appears to be hoping affixing a candidate that Republican voters just weren’t that into to his own flat-lining candidacy adds up to a winning cocktail of voter enthusiasm.
You can’t say Fiorina isn’t game. She’s got Cruz-fueled enthusiasm in bunches. Droves even. Don’t believe her? Wanna see? Do ya? During the veep announcement, Fiorina broke into some sort of adlibbed lullaby-sounding ditty to Cruz’s daughters, Caroline and Catherine. So she’s pretty much all in now. Here’s how it went:
I know two girls that I just adore. I’m so happy that I can see them more. ‘Cause we travel on the bus all day, we get to play. We get to play.
The crowd in the hall laughed awkwardly, which is the appropriate response. Presumably Fiorina was brought in to soften her “running mate” and make him appear less, you know, weird. So far it’s not totally working. In the end though, it could have been worse.
