With Carly Fiorina As Running Mate, Cruz's H-1B Stance Now In Question (computerworld.com)

dcblogs quotes a report from Computerworld: In 2013, Sen. Ted Cruz emerged as one of the Senate's top H-1B visa supporters, and argued for a 500% visa cap increase. But during his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, Cruz had a conversion. Cruz's presidential platform proposed a $110,000 minimum wage for visa workers, among other restrictions, as a way of ending their use as low-cost labor. The move marked a complete turnabout on the H-1B issue. Cruz's decision Wednesday to add former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as his running mate if he wins the nomination, may make his newly found H-1B beliefs a hard sell. At HP, Fiorina was a prominent supporter of the offshore outsourcing model, said Ron Hira, an associate professor of public policy at Howard University. "To pump up profits, she was an early adopter of the practice, which given HP's status as a leading Silicon Valley firm, pushed other firms to adopt offshoring," said Hira. As offshoring gained, Fiorina played a leading role in defending globalization. To make her point, in 2004, Fiorina said: "There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore," reported the San Francisco Chronicle.

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Re:He doesn't have a running mate...

[Rob Y.]

The problem is that any number of politicians could just as easily be characterized as 'a habitual liar, a follower of the poll of the week, etc.'. But somehow, for Hillary Clinton, these things become evil personified.

And beyond that, there are lies and there are lies. In my book, "we've got to lower taxes to get this economy running" is a worse lie than "I've evolved on the issue of gay marriage". The first is an utter distortion to sell a policy that will drive up the national debt, make the rich ever richer, and leave the rest of us to foot the bill. The second is a bit of political positioning to, yes, be able to play both sides of an issue she obviously is on board with personally.

Likewise, "I had a personal email server, because I didn't want to carry 2 devices" is essentially "I don't want people poking through my email in order to cherry pick embarrassing statements to use out of context against me". That's hardly "I wanted to destroy the country and hide the evidence". But, on the other hand, "we know Saddam Hussein has nuclear weapons and wants to use them"... Some lies have consequences - some are merely political positioning. They are wholly different classes of 'evil'.