George Will: Nikki Haley Would Be A "Promising" VP Choice For Ted Cruz

[mystery-ak]

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/04/06/george_will_nikki_haley_is_a_promising_vp_choice_for_ted_cruz.html


George Will: Nikki Haley Would Be A "Promising" VP Choice For Ted Cruz
By Tim Hains
Posted on April 6, 2016

GEORGE WILL: He'd have to throw into that mix Kasich himself, as I'm sure your listeners know. No Republican has ever won the White House without carrying Ohio. You have to carry Ohio and Florida. Because there is a 'gender gap' as they used to call it in the Republican Party about approaching women. It is really narrower than that -- Mitt Romney carried married women.

[South Carolina Republican Governor] Nikki Haley is a promising candidate for two reasons. One thing you don't want in a candidate for a vice presidential nomination is surprises. You want them to be surefooted and not make news and not disrupt the momentum of the campaign. She has demonstrated a tremendous surefootedness. Going through the traumatic reaction after the horrible shooting in Charleston, and also the difficulty of bringing down the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds in Columbia.

Second, she does as a governor, she is presiding over a state transformed more and more for the better... It just continues to boom, with Boeing and all the rest down there.

[Frank Cannon]

Nikki is a little milquetoast for me. I would like to see Carly. She fights like hell and that is what you want as a VP.

[Sanguine]

Nikki is a little milquetoast for me. I would like to see Carly. She fights like hell and that is what you want as a VP.

Carly or Scott Walker.

[MACVSOG68]

Nikki is a little milquetoast for me. I would like to see Carly. She fights like hell and that is what you want as a VP.

OTOH, Nikki is a governor and such experience wouldn't hurt a GOP ticket, the front-end of which more and more appears will lack that.  And of course, Haley does have certain biological qualities that either Trump or Cruz seems in need of.  Let's see, governor, female, minority...

[ArneFufkin]

Having observed the usual suspects on the far Right and their bigotry in 2012 against Romney, I shudder to think what kind of ugliness would surround Haley's Sikh heritage (though she has thoroughly discussed her Christian conversion and is a regular attendee at a Methodist Church).

[Free Vulcan]

Nikki is a little milquetoast for me. I would like to see Carly. She fights like hell and that is what you want as a VP.

Me too. Great experience as a governor, but I'm afraid she'd get chewed up on the trail unless she learned how to get more fight in her.

[libertybele]

Haley is considered a Libertarian-Leaning Conservative and don't see that as a good fit for Cruz and I don't see much name recognition with her or popularity and certainly not much of a draw for Cruz. 

As for a female minority who is extremely intelligent and would  bring in the black/female votes and some moderates; Condoleezza Rice comes to mind and I think she would make a good VP. Secondly, she was without a doubt a far superior Secretary of State than Hillary.  I'm not so sure though that she would get back into politics.

http://www.ontheissues.org/Nikki_Haley.htm