Ted Cruz naming Carly Fiorina as his running mate is the perfect move—for illustrating once again just how clueless America’s political elite and their media truly are. The move makes perfect sense in the context of elite politics, but it has a mountain of facts stacked against it, and if this cycle has been about anything, it’s been about how political elites have lost control over what ordinary voters know, think and see. First, let’s run down why it makes sense according to elite conventional wisdom.