Today’s New York Times story about Ted Cruz selecting Carly Fiorina as his potential running mate has drawn nearly 1,800 comments.
Some are priceless…One commenter called Cruz’ gambit “the political equivalent of a student pulling a fire alarm to avoid an exam.”
Here is a sampling of other comments:
Ugly and Fat git, Boulder, CO
If Ted Cruz loses Indiana, he will pick his cabinet.
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Jack, East Coast
To the Cruz team, this is a brilliant strategy to siphon off women voters.
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kaw7, Manchester
Cruz should have borrowed Romney’s binders of women and looked a little harder.
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T3D, San Francisco
So Captain Cruz now has his First Mate on the Good Ship Titanic.
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sbmd, florida
Cruz picked Fiorina because she’s a woman with name recognition. He would have done as well if he had Lorena Bobbit!
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J. Kevin Wright, Bloomington, IN
You’ve got to admit, Cruz and Fiorina kind of deserve one another.
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SandyG, Albuquerque, NM
Like watching two cobras entwining.
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mancuroc, rochester, NY
Well, there goes the HP vote.
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John Michael Fields, Atlanta
Carly Fiorina…Cntrl Alt Delete
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Let’s finish with this…My friend Dan Margolies, editor of KCUR’s Heartland Health Monitor, told me recently he had come up with the perfect adjective to describe Cruz: Oleaginous.
If you don’t know exactly what it means, and don’t want to go to “The Free Dictionary,” just think “oleo.”
JimmyCsays: At the juncture of journalism and daily life in KC 
As I recall, Ronald Regan tried the same tactic in 1976, but it didn’t work. I think he announced before the convention that Sen Richard Schweiker would be his running mate.
I wouldn’t have remembered, Les, but that, too, was in The New York Times today.
I can’t think of two more repulsive candidates. They deserve each other. My favorite name for them both is Cruzella.
I can’t tell you how stunned I am that the readers of the leftist NYT and an editor of a local left-wing publicly funded radio station would be insulting towards a Constitutional conservative and a woman who actually achieved something absent the coattails of a serial rapist husband.
Cruz has been described by no lesser a light as Alan Dershowitz as the brightest student he ever had and Fiorina was an accomplished CEO of a major corporation and consultant to I believe the CIA on foreign affairs.
But what makes them more interesting is that the people who are critical of such a talented duo are supporting either a corrupt, felonious hag who has achieved nothing on her own merit, or a whacked out totalitarian whose suggested policies are ridiculed even by liberal economists.
I certainly agree that Trump is worthy of any of the name calling and ire directed towards him and I’m embarrassed that he’s even considered to be a credible candidate on our side of the fence, but compared to Bernie and Hillary, Cruz and Fiorina are absolute standouts.
Incidentally, I blame the media for the pathetic state of affairs in American politics. Had the press done their job of vetting either Clinton, or Obama, you wouldn’t be seeing such a backlash of the kind you’re seeing with Trump’s supporters where they don’t care what the media says about him because they know his critics are all hypocrites anyway. They know damn well that the press wouldn’t give a damn about his flaws if he were following a leftist agenda.