Carly Fiorina?  That’s all Cruz has left?  This is the stop Trump movement?  It was leaked earlier today that Cruz would be making a “major announcement.”  But, this is to major announcements what the naughty lamp in A Christmas Story was to major awards.  Cruz-Fiorina is like a B-list WWE tag-team that has just enough juice to be interesting, but is clearly just there to put the big stars over.

Cruz is many things, but I thought he was a smart politician. I can’t imagine what the strategy sessions where like that resulted in this decision.  Cruz is toast, but what possible argument is there that Carly will improve his chances?  Does anyone in Indiana even know who she is? They know who she is in California, and they didn’t vote for her when she ran for senate. Perhaps the reasoning was that the only way to make Cruz more likeable was to put someone even more unlikeable on the ticket with him. She’s a terrible campaigner.  Unsmiling. Angry. A multi-millionaire, failed CEO who was trying to run on a populist economic message.

This is such a non-event that I almost feel bad to blog about it.  Except that the hathos appeal is too much to resist.  So, on that level, I’m happy to have her back in the campaign.

She is utterly loathsome.  When she left Lucent to become CEO of HP—and this was at the peak of the ‘90s bull market, when CEOs were treated like celebrities—it was obvious her only objective was to be governor of California or one of its senators.  On the way to becoming the first woman president.

Hey, we all have our career goals.

But, she was a disaster at HP. At a time when rival IBM was transforming itself from a hardware company to a software and services company, Carly had HP buy Compaq, doubling down on PCs and commodity servers.

Lots of people are referring back to when Reagan, in 1976, picked Pennsylvania senator Richard Schweiker as his running mate before the convention. Schweiker was at least a sitting senator. And from a state where Reagan was trying to peel delegates away from Ford.  This makes no sense. She brings nothing other than anger and a bad resume.