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.
“we all bashed last week.”
Who is we all? I never bashed her.
I voted DeVore, knowing that Carly would probably win.
The way I see it, we had an A candidate, a B candidate, and a D candidate.
The B candidate won. I’ll take a B.
Because we currently have an F in office!
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 ... :-)
If you are saying that FReepers made fun of someone who had issues with their hair KNOWING that the condition was as a result of a treatment for cancer then I say you are a liar who is full of it.
What do you mean “despite that”...... you don’t think Palin should support someone who supported her when she was being kicked from all directions?
iCarly is still the same iCarly we all bashed last week.
right?
So, do you plan to vote for Boxer? (Assuming you live in California)
Do you plan to sit the election out?
Cutting off your nose to spite your face appeals to you why?
I really don't know much about Fiorina, other than what Pissant posts......
sorry, couldn't help it.......
Worth repeating.
Well.. pissant always tries to stir up trouble here, he is still hoping Duncan Hunter will be the next POTUS ~LOL~
Down with that “B” Boxer. Down with that creepy, no personality funeral director dude from Nevada. Down with that pansy Crist.
By being Republicans, giving the control of the Senate over to the Republicans, and giving guys like Bunning, DeMint, and Kyl senior positions and committee chairmanships.
The real power of the Senate is not on the floor; it is in committee. That is where the party in control - even if just by one vote - can stop any legislation from even coming to vote. You might not get to pass what you want, but you can definitely stop what you don't want.
So yeah, Snowe and Collins help a lot, when we're looking for control of the Senate. They allow real conservatives to take positions of power and stop the Democrat agenda.
As far as Carly goes, from what little I know, I wish someone like her would run against one of our Michigan senators, I'd take her in a heartbeat instead of them.
I hope most the California conservatives don't sit it out, there are more than a few here that claim they want to. I'm sure Babs want them too.
Let me get this straight.
It was wrong and obvious Palin Derangement Syndrome to criticize her endorsement of Fiorina in the run up to the primary and now it’s still wrong ?
I got it.
Any other practical times we are supposed to ditch conservatives in favor of women pics or pragmatism you just let me know.
Deal?
I never realized till today that Sarah whom I support is actually being very Machiavellian.
She’s expanding her base from just Social Conservative Pitbull Mom...when she runs she will can rightly claim that she does at times support moderates...I’m not crazy about that and even though her endorsements are very very very effective for whom she picks in primaries...and may help her win the nomination....it’s dimmed her shine for me from the pure zeal I once had. I believed her when she said we run as and support conservatives first.
1. The world is round....
2. um....
Precious really has you by the nads, dude. Where was your enthusiasm for Ted Stevens last time. Or Bob Shaffer. Or Christine Odonnell? Or Chris Reed? Or or or
by next week we will have never been at war with Eastasia
Sorry, I was thinking about the comment from Carly about Palin being “unqualified to run a company” after Palin got the VP slot. It was pure petty jealousy from Carly and despite that, Sarah endorsed her.
The McCain camp shut Carly up after that breach.
If you are saying that FReepers made fun of someone who had issues with their hair KNOWING that the condition was as a result of a treatment for cancer then I say you are a liar who is full of it.
I don't know anyone who is a mind-reader here ... LOL ...
But, what I do know is that I saw FReepers repeatedly making fun of her, on the video image that kept popping up in the beginning of the threads here ...
You'll have to ask them what was in their minds ... :-) but I do know that it was "also" repeatedly told on countless threads what the situation was ...
Fortunately, I don’t vote in CA.
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