Carly Fiorina, CPAC 2015 [Photo Credit: Katie Frates, The Daily Caller]
Posted on 04/17/2015 5:26:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Carly Fiorina, CPAC 2015 [Photo Credit: Katie Frates, The Daily Caller]
Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO and a potential GOP presidential candidate, said on Friday that she is not as wealthy as Hillary Clinton and that unlike the likely Democratic nominee, she drives a car, does her own laundry, goes grocery shopping and tips at Chipotle.
Fiorina, who is in New Hampshire as part of the GOP Leadership Summit, shared details of her anti-Clintonian lifestyle in an interview on The Howie Carr Show.
Asked whether she thinks Clinton’s campaign strategy of trying to repackage herself as an “everyday American” will prove convincing to voters, Fiorina said ,”Honestly, I really don’t.”
Carr brought up an admission Clinton made last year that she has not driven a car herself since 1996, when she was First Lady.
“Kind of amazing, right?” Fiorina said.
Asked if she drives, the businesswoman said, “Of course, oh my gosh, of course.”
“And I do my own laundry, and I go to the grocery store. I live a normal life.”
Clinton has faced heavy criticism that she is out of touch with average Americans. Though she and husband Bill are worth tens of millions of dollars, she claimed last year that they were nearly “dead broke” after leaving the White House in 2001.
Realizing this political vulnerability, Clinton has gone to great lengths to repair her image. After announcing her presidential candidacy on Sunday, Clinton and her team set off for Iowa in Dodge conversion van.
The highlight of the trip was the campaign team’s stop at a Chipotle in Ohio. Rather than connecting with average Americans, Clinton and her aide wore sunglasses into the restaurant and appeared to not have engaged with anyone. Clinton caused a minor stir when it was revealed that she did not leave money in a tip jar.
Though many Chipotle patrons do not leave tips, Fiorina says she does.
“I really do, those people work hard,” she told Carr. “I’m a good tipper.”
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Asked why she does her own laundry, Fiorina told The Howie Carr Show, “Because I have to do my laundry, that’s why. Nobody else is going to do my laundry.”
Fiorina also claimed that she and her husband Frank, a retired AT&T executive, are not nearly as rich as the Clintons.
“I will tell you that Bill and Hillary Clinton are worth far more money than Frank and Carly Fiorina,” she said.
Fiorina has never held public office, but says that her business experience will be her greatest asset in the Oval Office, should she try for it.
She also says that being a woman will be an asset against Clinton, who routinely refers to the “war on women” and gender disparities in her stump speeches.
“Maybe they realize that if Hillary Clinton faces me on a debate stage in the general election that there are a whole host of things she can’t talk about,” Fiorina said Friday.
“She can’t talk about being the first woman president, she can’t talk about the “war on women,” she can’t play the gender card, and she will be forced instead to talk about her track record, her accomplishments — or lack thereof — her candor and trustworthiness, her policies, her plans.”
Does she do light dusting and floors?
And work for 10 dollars an hour?
She’s hired.
So does 150 million other American women. What else qualifies you to be our president?
She doesn’t even pay her spanish speaking housekeeper that much.
The only thing everday about Hillary is the lying.
Her resume is kind of thin. She hasn’t let any dead ambassadors get dragged through the streets.
Ms. Fiorina better be ready to answer for her dismal performance at HP. In fact she arguably ran a once great company into the ground.
How she could look herself in the mirror after that $10 million severance is still an unanswered question.
Exactly what I was thinking. Wonder what Carly thinks this does for her? Does she do windows?
I hope Carly Florina stays right where she is at, she’s just the right person and right fit to go on the offensive against the media and the Nag Tag Hag Tag campaign for Hillary 2016.
Carly you are doing a good job of exposing this fraud broad and the hypocrisy of Hillary and the fawning of the media over her..
Fiorina has her own problems that relate to her time at HP and over-reliance on guest worker programs.
Would she require her help to know a combination of skills that no citizen could have? I would think so.
Nothing that I can see.
The RNC needed a female attack dog to go after Hillary.
Fiorina is not a real candidate, there are going to be many phony campaigns designed to split up the vote so Jebster can be nominated against the wishes of most Republican voters.
So Carly liberally supports a Democrat restaurant.
Unlike Hillary, Fiorina will never live in the White House.
“what you said”
were all in this together,..and each has a wonderful role to work out
I may not choose her to be my candidate, but I will not diss her. She could be an asset in a cabinet position.
Possibly, but I can’t think of a cabinet position that she would fit that there aren’t better qualified people. It bothers me that she was fired from her position as CEO of Hewlitt-Packard.
There is more than one job at the White House.
Carly Fiorina ?
Remind everyone that it was presidential canadate Bill Clinton in 1992 that exploted George H. Bush’s photo op gaff of George H. Bush being at a grocery store amazed at the technology of the super markets checkout scanners..
The media made fun of George H. Bush by being “ out of touch “ with the common man...
Thanks, I was beginning to wonder if I had dreamt that.
Yup, house keeper..
Gentlemen, gentlemen....we are missing the most important point of a Fiorina run. She is a hell of a lot easier on the eyes than Hillary. I can look at Fiorina and listen to her without exhibiting a slowly simmering rage and desire to shoot my TV....if I had any firearms. Haven’t had any since the tragic boating accident on Lake Tahoe....
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