And the second question: What's in it for Fiorina? Does she just have a failure fetish or something?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

(on edit, Context: I can guess why Cruz might pick Fiorina as a veep but why would she want to be on a losing ticket?)

[tonyt53]

1. She has unfinished business

She needs to fail at something else now. Somebody needs to pull her aside and talk to her about her self-harming.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

2. Look what running did for that brain surgeon Palin. To be fair, Palin had no money

to begin with and now does, Carly is rich already from stealing from employees.

[chelsea0011]

5. Except she was a candidate by someone who had the nomination. Carly (as she is known by all)

is being put out for VP by a clown who can't get the nomination.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

7. Yeah, that is right - So why is she doing it?

[chelsea0011]

9. EGO.... (and she hates Trump)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

23. Yeah, maybe. Ego unbridled by any practical economic restraint.

She's economically set for life, there's not a whole hell of a lot she could do to screw that up, and yet with no realistic avenue left for increasing her fortune (like becoming a CEO again. Ever again.). So why not go wherever her ego leads her?

[0rganism]

15. brain surgeon Palin? Sarah? did she "self medicate" at some point?

frankly the idea of that person on the loose around sharp objects gives me the willies.

[Ilsa]

3. My guess is that after this fails, she'll get on some Boards

of Directors. They'll prop her up for awhile.

[HooptieWagon]

4. She just likes the media attention.

The Palin Syndrome.

[Johonny]

6. Yeah

It makes her in the news cycle again. When Trump loses and he'll lose she can do the talk shows saying what if...

[world wide wally]

8. What's next?

Kasich introducing his VP?

Or maybe Ben Carson?

[chelsea0011]

10. Gawd...I hope Carson doesn't pick his VP candidate...

that crap droned on for nearly and hour Carson would go on for probably days.

[Kingofalldems]

14. Well hell--I'll be announcing my VP very soon.

Everyone should have a VP.

[Xolodno]

11. Desperation.

After her epic fail at HP, no major corp will have her. So now she desperately needs to get into politics for a job. She's probably hoping that Trump is denied at the convention and they rally behind Cruz. A gamble, sure...but does she have to lose. Not like Trump is going to offer her anything, she doesn't have his "qualifications".

[JHB]

12. The demon sheep in her head told her to

[madinmaryland]

13. She's auditioning for a position at Fox Noise. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

16. Fox has standards.

Carly will need better hair and shorter skirts.

[madinmaryland]

20. Maybe it will be Fox Business Channel. She has the perfect background for them.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

25. I finally watched some Fox Business Channel today.

There was a banner across the bottom of the screen with stock prices and other financial info. The speakers were just like other Fox announcers, dissing Obama and liberals and "the left", and no discussion of anything related to business.

The female announcer had nice hair. And a nasty disposition toward "lefties".

[lunasun]

17. Could be,good guess but I think she just wants to defeat Trump. Wants to help bring him down.

What a bizarre group of candidates the repugs have had 2016.

[DavidDvorkin]

18. A book. The lecture circuit.

[MowCowWhoHow III]

19. A singing career

[Gidney N Cloyd]

22. Yike.

[sufrommich]

21. I wonder the same,it doesn't make

sense to me.

[snooper2]

26. Teddy is actually pretty good in bed....

[Thor_MN]

24. It's all she knows. It's in her comfort zone.

Once you've fucked up a multinational corporation, failure become second nature.

[grasswire]

27. Because something might happen to Cruz.

She really yearns to go mano a mano with Putin.

[sendero]

28. Well at least it is something..

... she has experience and is good at (failing).

[librechik]

29. Blanche duFiorina seems to have a tenuous grip on reality

and she has always relied on the comfort of strangers

[Warpy]

30. She gets to shove her ugly mug in front of cameras for a few more months

She also thinks she'd going to be allowed to spew lies about her betters into microphones. It hasn't dawned on her that she's now a surrogate Political Wife and that her role is to gaze adoringly at DistrusTED while he does all the talking at rallies.

[Xyzse]

31. Hmmm, well if you do look on her Corporate Experience.

As CEO, she is party to quite a few company failures.

[tenderfoot]

32. There's lots of money in failing to win the White House

http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/mike-huckabee-republican-presidential-run/