Cruz-Thomas in 2016

The Washington Post reports that Ginny Thomas, who is married to Justice Clarence Thomas, has endorsed Texas's (Princeton and Harvard educated) junior senator Ted Cruz for the Republican nomination.  I'm sure the endorsement was sincere and that no quid pro quo was involved.   That being said, it also occurred to me that a thoroughly plausible ticket in this extraordinarily peculiar political season would be Cruz-Clarence Thomas.  The only downside for Thomas would be his presumably having to resign from the Court in order to do it, thus leaving a vacancy to be filled by Hillary Clinton should she prevail.  (There is, of  course, no possibility whatsoever that President Obama could fill a vacancy that would arise only in June 2016.)  It would, however, certainly add clarity about what is at stake in the election.  In any event, you read it here first!

As for Cruz, incidentally, I increasingly think that he has a good chance of being the last man standing come next June.  In the political system in which I grew up, the favorite would clearly be John Kasich, a capable governor of a vital swing state, but that system appears to be dead.  Kasich's only hope is that Jeb! withdraws before New Hampshire and selflessly endorses Kasich instead of the young prince Rubio, but I certainly wouldn't bet on that happening.  Cruz's big hope has to be that he can come in first, even with only 32%, in the winner-take-all states following March 15 and that Trump, realizing he is not in fact going to get the nomination, will throw his support behind Cruz because Cruz has generally been "nice" to him. 

Perhaps Cruz would be tempted to pick snarly Carley as his veep, but I doubt it, since she's as cravenly ambitious as he is.  Thomas, on the other hand, would be perfect; a Cruz-Thomas ticket would allow Republicans to persuade themselves that we indeed live in a post-racialist color-blind society and prove it by voting for a Canadian-born Cuban-American and an African-American from Pinpoint, Georgia.  What could be more inspiring!