Posted on 05/04/2015 12:19:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I cannot believe I’m writing this. I mean, when you think about it, how much sense does it make that Carly Fiorina is running for president?
With chances less than zero of getting beyond New Hampshire, let alone Super Tuesday, Fiorina began making the cable news show rounds in recent weeks. Name a hot bed issue and there she was, under the studio Klieg lights, nattily dressed and ready to rattle off a litany of conservative talking points.
That has always been the “Fiorina Way,” after all: toe the party (or company) line even as the boat sinks.
For now at least, she is the only woman among the current GOP field of candidates. If nothing else, she’ll be an early and ardent counterpoint to Hillary Clinton– whom she called unqualified.
Unfortunately, rather than invest itself in meaningful outreach to diverse audiences, Republicans have settled for “box-check politics.” A largely unfunded candidate with little or no base of support, like Fiorina, is one example of that. There is no better spokesperson to push back on wage inequality than a former Fortune 20 CEO who also happens to be a woman, right?
While there is a bevy of support for Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, two things are clear for even Fiorina’s eyes to see: The Republican nominee will be a man, and that man will in all likelihood be white.
For the next few months, however, Fiorina will crisscross the country to make her case to primary voters. She will stomp the yard with highly romanticized renditions of her corporate years. She won’t mention the botched merger, the millions in stakeholder value lost, being forced out by the board, or how the entire gambit killed thousands of jobs.
The train will inevitably run out of steam. But before it’s over, Fiorina will work her way onto dozens of cable and broadcast news programs—right where the eventual nominee can see her.
Wait, this is starting to make sense now.
On the other hand she might split the RINO vote in a way that could cost Bush III a few delegates.
>> I wonder if they were trying to make Jeb look like JFK?
I dunno; could be.
Tell you what, if the artist was attempting to make Jethro look CLUELESS, he certainly succeeded!
She might be a RINO and a GOPe, but at least she really gets her digs in on HRC....more than most of the other candidates best I can tell, at least right now. But I don’t take her candidacy seriously. I don’t think you should be running for president just after you lost your senate race, then moved out of your state to the Washington beltway. Memo: To Rick Santorum.
what about VP?
She is the only one who has the balls to go for the jugular in the opposition (other than Ted Cruz). Let her have at it, win or no win.
” Of course, thats OK because those people ‘know better”.”
LOL
RR: “ ...they know so much that isn’t true “
Second that!
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