Posted on 06/09/2010 8:57:15 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Carly Fiorina wasn't the first choice among many conservatives. She is not as conservative as DeVore and if Campbell hadn't been in the race, then supporting DeVore would have been a no-brainer. I respect DeVore and his service. I never attacked him personally, (unlike those who attacked Carly and ridiculed her as a "dyke" even though she just had breast cancer and lost her hair) and I wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors. He now has name recognition and a platform of support to challenge Diane Feinstein in 2012, for example, and if he does he'll receive my wholehearted support.
But the important thing is, Carly was more conservative than Campbell, who was the ultimate turn-coat RINO and who would have done nothing to advance the conservative agenda. She has millions to compete with Boxer and being a female and cancer survivor also neutralizes whatever attacks Boxer will throw at her. Remember that Boxer completely destroyed two staunch male conservatives before. It's time to unseat her using a different tactic.
Unfortunately, there are FReepers, who are bitter and angry from the DeVore loss, who have stated that it would be better for Boxer to win than to rally behind Carly. This is completely childish and pathetic. First of all, Carly is not a RINO because she has no public office experience to make a RINO assessment on. We're not talking about holding your nose for a Mark Kirk or Mike Castle-type liberal Republican. We're talking about someone who is reasonably conservative on the main issues and who will slow the Obama agenda. With Palin's endorsement, there's less of a chance for her to go Olympia Snowe on us. I trust Palin, and I doubt that Fiorina would be the West Coast version of Snowe.
Second of all Carly has business experience and while FReepers will laugh at her six years at HP the fact of the matter is she still has experience. Prior to becoming HP CEO Carly was vice-president of AT & T, so obviously HP saw something in her. She worked her way up from being a receptionist to leading a major corporation. What did Boxer do, besides live on the government hog most of her life?
Boxer will whine and say that Carly outsourced jobs but Carly can easily counter and say that conditions created by the government (high corporate taxes and regulations) brought about the need to cut jobs.
My point is that Carly won the primary decisively and exit polls showed she attracted both independents and conservatives. She ran a strong center-right campaign and there's no doubt that will carry over into the general election against Boxer. While she's not pure as the driven snow conservative, she is sufficiently conservative to stop the Obama agenda and promote big-picture issues like reining in spending and lowering taxes. So to quote Sheppard Smith: Don't be a hater.
And after Boxer, Feinstein.
Any Body But Boxer.
She is as bad today as she was last week.
It’s called principals.
They don’t come in a box at Wal-Mart either.
I’m on board. Hard to believe some of the posts I have seen here on FR. Anyways time to oust Boxer.
If it means Dick Durbin won’t be the next Majority leader, so be it.
I also agree that making fun of someones hair who has lost it to chemo is incredibly classless.
I agree with you, completely. The entire “traitor” Democrat Party needs to be destroyed to the maximum at the ballot box this November, 2010!!! California, get behind Carly and wipe out the egomaniac, insane, buffoon Barbara Boxer. I would never give that low class woman, the courtesy of calling her a Senator. California wise up, dump Boxer and all like her. You will save yourselves and California will become the great leader of states she once was.
Amen. There are way too many folks around here who feel the highest expression of their responsibility to participate in the electoral system is to make up sophomoric insults about anyone who does not agree with them 100%. If someone only agrees with them 99% of the time or 90% of the time then insults are a patriotic duty.
I agree, speaking as someone who had a relative who went through chemo and experienced the hair loss along with it.
The times I’ve seen her she sounded very articulate and understands smaller gummit, lower taxes and less regs. She will destroy box-a-rocks.
Pray for America
So I suppose a box from Wal-Mart is where you bought your English degree?
No, no, he meant principals. See, he’s a big supporter of the Department of Education, and clearly we need more principals to make things better.
Or at least that might be an explanation...
We need to cycle in different people. I would rather RINOs not get there, but if any of them can get rid of a tenured liberal politician, then I’m for them, if only in the general election.
Folks, people like Boxer sit in senior positions on committees. We need to reset the seniority to zero everywhere.
Next election we can work to get the conservative in.
If there is going to be a purging of FR like there was in ‘07, I hope it takes place before the new fall tv season starts.
Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them...well, I have others.... (Groucho)
agreed at this point bashing Carly is akin to supporting boxer
Right. Just write a new blog page, and forget the old ones.
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