Except for California, I suspect most Americans have already forgotten who she is/was.
As a political candidate, perhaps they had. As the lady who mismanaged Hewlett-Packard,
probably not.
And she does sound good in a debate, until you hear the same phrases over and over.
What made her work in a debate or on the stump was that she does have her own kind of
cool composure, she doesn't rattle easily. The problem with that is that, well, the unflappable
can look either diffident or careless if they just so happen to be in the middle of a maelstrom,
as she was in her final days at H-P. She can be
so composed that she looks like she
couldn't care less.
Either way, picking her without really giving her the vetting called for was a stupid move on
Cruz's part. Aside from how foolish it is to name a running mate before you have a nomination,
Cruz looked like he's anything but a deep thinker, he looked almost like someone handed him a
hat to pick a name from. Remember what I wrote in the original essay: say what you will about
Romney or Obama, but at least they and their teams did months of proper vetting before they
got their nominations; they at least looked as though they cared about more than a body
temperature and a blood count in a running mate. Cruz doesn't.
Big mistake.
