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.
Ummm..., I figure ... “once a whiner, always a whiner” ... LOL ...
I also agree that making fun of someones hair who has lost it to chemo is incredibly classless.
Ummmm..., well, you're talking about a bunch of FReepers then ... :-)
Amen to that one......
I agree with you. Primaries are great and nobody (Hey Obama, that means you) should interfere with them.
But after the nominee is chosen we must pull together.
We must be yellow dogs about it and vote to get as many dems out of as many offices as possible. From sea to shining see.
That party has to be destroyed, they are ruining America.
Uh.., Carly is the one who lost her hair to chemo......
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.
Well, unfortunately that very true and accurate comment of yours -- won't stop them ... I'll guarantee you ... LOL ...
How hard is it to understand this:
iCarly is still the same iCarly we all bashed last week.
right?
She still has the same baggage and flaws that she did when we swore she was the worst candidate ever.
Who is being inconsistant here?
Carly’s got my vote, but I think she could explain some of the statements she made about people like Jesse Jackson and Diane Feinstein. Many would be more accepting of her conservatism if she explained when the epiphany occurred that convinced her that people like Jackson and Feinstein were leading in the wrong direction. Without such a moment of personal discovery, some will be skeptical of her sincerity.
It won’t effect many of our votes, but it will effect how we feel about voting for her.
They help us with the numbers and we pray we can get the majority of the majority from more conservative states, but like someone said above, at this point if it keeps Durbin from being majority leader vote Carly.
agreed at this point bashing Carly is akin to supporting boxer
Supporting a losing candidate before the Primary and attempting to "split the vote" -- was also supporting Boxer ... I would say ...
Has everyone here forgotten when the ugly rumors started about Palin in 2008 it wasn’t McCain or his team to held a news conference to set the press straight on Palin, it was Carly Fiorina...
Well hello first amendment regulations and borderless world.
such an improvement.
Thanks, I don’t remember that. Can you source it?
Yet Sarah endorsed her, despite that.
I’d rather Carly not be there at all, but her for six years is much better for the country than Boxer for another six years.
Not this again...I’ll take Foirina over Boxer any day, and I live in CA.
And that's why Carly Fiorina got the support from Sarah Palin ... which was a smart move on Sarah Palin's behalf. She knows what she's doing in politics ...
I watched it.. she called a press conference and Fox cut to it and when she came out she was forceful as hell in her defense of Palin, and she was the only one at the time who had the nerve to say anything since the entire campaign seemed to be hiding under their desks in fear... then that evening she started making the rounds of the nightly programs to defend Palin... I have respected Carly since then.
“At least it was not Campbell.”
Do NOT get depressed. Avoiding Campbell was HUGE.
Also it looks like Fitzgerald for Ins. Commissioner, by a squeak. Cheer up!
Even if I gave you your premise that Carly = Snowe/Collins (which I don't):
1)A senator w/ (R) beside their name instead of a (D) is one closer to being able to chair all committees.
2) Fiorina is not Boxer. No resemblance.
3) Anything to rid ourselves of the pig that upbraided a US military officer over calling her "Ma'am".
4) Boxer is a limousine liberal; Carly is not.
5) Boxer is a California Communist; Carly is not.
6) Boxer wants all Mexicans voting in US elections; Carly does not.
You get the idea; I don't want to beat it to death.
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