CARLY'S VALUE – AT 8:17 A.M. ET:  Fascinating take on the value of Carly Fiorini to the Republican Party.  We have, I say with complete lack of modesty, expressed similar ideas here.  She has been superb in virtually every public appearance.  From The Hill:

Misleading headline alert: Carly Fiorina is not going to be the GOP presidential candidate. She's polling at 1.8 percent in the most recent Fox News poll. That puts her in a solid 13th place. It would take every Sherpa in Nepal to guide her to the top against those odds.

But she will win, in one sense, because she's positioned herself perfectly for the right side of the slash. As in, Rubio/Fiorina, Walker/Fiorina or Bush/Fiorina.

Whatever man emerges from the GOP pack would be making a huge mistake in not choosing Fiorina as a running mate. With Hillary Clinton looking like a foregone conclusion right now, gender issues are going to make their presence felt in the 2016 election. From CNN to MSNBC to internet memes, the media will use the gender angle to attack the Republican nominee. It's a long campaign, and there are a lot of smartphones out there. The GOP candidate will be caught on camera "mansplaining," "manspreading" and "manslamming." That last one, according to HuffPost Women, is when men run into women on the sidewalk when the women don't move out of their way. And, by mid-2016, there will be an entire dictionary of manshaming words for Clinton to use. And they will cover the entire gamut of annoying things men do.

Whatever GOP man is at the top of the ticket, he will need a woman on the ticket to protect him. That's right: He will need a woman to protect him.

COMMENT:  Very well said.  Read the rest of the piece.  It's worth it.  The Republican presidential field is deep, but there are very few stars who can light up a room.  Carly Fiorina has proved she is one.  No, she probably won't get the top nomination.  But, as the piece says, she'd be a superb vice-presidential nominee.

June 20, 2015