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Why Carly Crushed It
Townhall.com ^ | August 13, 2015 | Jackie Gingrich Cushman

Posted on 08/13/2015 6:17:34 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/13/2015 6:17:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Yay, a pro-amnesty environmentalist radical talks well! Let’s vote for her!


2 posted on 08/13/2015 6:19:07 AM PDT by exist
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Unfortunately Carly’s campaign rhetoric, like certain others in this race, doesn’t necessarily match past comments she’s made.


3 posted on 08/13/2015 6:19:57 AM PDT by skeeter
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No to Carly. She is a GOPE - people just don’t realize she’s playing a role. I can’t prove it, but I think she had the questions ahead of time. Her answers were too canned and rehearsed. She worked with the Clinton Foundation and was/is a Fox Business News contributor. She’s got pull at Fox - so, I have my suspicions.


4 posted on 08/13/2015 6:22:23 AM PDT by Catsrus (a and)
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Can we imagine, for a moment, a Trump/Fiorina ticket? Kind of reminds me of Clinton/Gore.


5 posted on 08/13/2015 6:22:34 AM PDT by Buttons12
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No, I can’t imagine a Trump/Fiorina ticket.


6 posted on 08/13/2015 6:23:59 AM PDT by Catsrus (a and)
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To: Kaslin
The second debate, while dominated by Trump, provided Rubio a time to shine
This article is about Carly because she dumped on Hillary. I take it that she didn’t have to fight to get a word in edgewise to do it. Was Megyn Kelly giving Trump - or Cruz - that opportunity? I don’t think so.

7 posted on 08/13/2015 6:25:29 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: Kaslin

(With Donald Trump as the current leader of the field, this might be considered the first reality-TV primary)

Don’t conservative writers know that when they write crap like that, conservatives who have years of practice detecting bias would immediately start disregarding the rest of their article?


8 posted on 08/13/2015 6:25:55 AM PDT by winner3000
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You nailed...she’s a ‘phoney’ thru and thru...she should be carrying shillary’s water...


9 posted on 08/13/2015 6:26:27 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ("It's the hard working, tax paying citizens of the United States that are suffering...")
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To: exist

Not 100% correct. She supports the DREAM Act, but is against amnesty. She supports Arizona’s recent legislation making it a crime to be in the country illegally.

Her stance on the DREAM act is extremely disappointing though.


10 posted on 08/13/2015 6:27:05 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Nostradamus had nothing on George Orwell.)
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MORE GOPe pimping of the new anti-Trump distraction to clear the way for Jeb


11 posted on 08/13/2015 6:28:30 AM PDT by montag813 (Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
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MORE GOPe pimping of the new anti-Trump distraction to clear the way for Jeb


12 posted on 08/13/2015 6:28:31 AM PDT by montag813 (Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
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MORE GOPe pimping of the new anti-Trump distraction to clear the way for Jeb


13 posted on 08/13/2015 6:28:31 AM PDT by montag813 (Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
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Yikes! Sorry about that...new mouse.


14 posted on 08/13/2015 6:28:57 AM PDT by montag813 (Bring Back Tar and Feathers)
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Fiorina is a rino


15 posted on 08/13/2015 6:32:21 AM PDT by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: Kaslin
Carly "crushed it" for several reasons:

1) it WAS the happy hour debate, and the moderators were softer than Megyn Kelly and her cronies. Certainly there was no "gotcha" question for her---especially one right out of the gate---the way there was for Trump, and the only "let's you-and-him-fight" question she got was directed toward Trump---not on the stage.

2) She's an unknown, probably more than anyone there except Gilmore, with nowhere to go but up.

3) Her answers WERE cogent, often deep, and she was the only candidate (including Trump or Cruz) who showed an appreciation for Chinese/Russian e-warfare. Of course, that's here baliwick. I doubt she could talk real estate implications like The Donald or legal implications like Cruz.

4) As a woman, she's going to get some slack, especially since she isn't Sarah Palin. I think the drive-bys have to to some small (emphasize small) degree have to "be nice to the woman" for a while to make up for the Palin hit-job they did.

5) More than anyone but Trump, she has that wrestling move called the "reverse gotcha" in place. When they tried to pin her down on late-night talk shows about her web domain that a disgruntled employee took to bash her, she announced she had BOUGHT the web domains of the idiots asking her the questions. That is one of the most perfect Reverse Gotcha's in recent history.

6) Many in the GOPe know Bush is a loser and are desperate for a fall back. I think Rubio is their #1, Walker their #2, but I think they are grooming Carly to be #3.

16 posted on 08/13/2015 6:33:57 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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Carly is way more liberal than Trump.


17 posted on 08/13/2015 6:34:56 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: winner3000

No, I don’t think she’s that far off as I’ve argued elsewhere and I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Culture HAS changed. Reality TV, celebrity culture IS the dominant thing. We can fight it and lose again (Obama figured this out in 08, among other things), or we can respond with our own celebrity, which at the moment seems to be working.


18 posted on 08/13/2015 6:35:29 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: skeeter

Just another “Campaign Conservative”.


19 posted on 08/13/2015 6:36:03 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Beware the Wisconsin Weasel - GOPe Plan B)
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iCarly and Jackie—Sisters hangin’ together.


20 posted on 08/13/2015 6:36:39 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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