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.
Are you going to lead the charge against Fiorina on FR still?
I tend to agree, but for the general election, we need to get someone even slightly more conservative into power. Next election we can fight the primary fight again for a more conservative candidate.
Six years of Boxer is definitely worse than six years of Carly. Sarah sees this and appears to have chosen who she thought was the most conservative likely to win in given races. I disagree with some of those choices, but I understand them.
We didn’t wind up with our current situation in a single election, but incrementally over many, many years of elections. It will take incremental moves back to sustain true conservative change. We just need to assure a continued drive toward that conservative goal and have to start somewhere.
You can’t make a silk purse out of that communist loving globalist. She, like Schwarzenegger, will only help to complete the economic destruction of California.
I can’t believe how corrupt ‘republicans’ have become.
Not a peep about any of the crucial races last time out, when some REAL conservatives were vying for Senate seats. Not a peep about Fiorina being anything but a RINO until about a month and a half ago.
Now it’s Carly Central. WoooooHooooooo.
It cracks me up.
Let’s see... she nearly ran HP into the ground. Specialized in outsourcing jobs to China and India. Fired by the board and given a massive golden parachute.
Criminal.
Boxer is a California Communist; Carly is a global communist.
I don’t support RINOs, if that’s what your asking.
I guess you are implying I believe everything I’m told? Whatever.
I don’t know about you, but I am ALWAYS voting between the lesser of two or more evils.
There has been no perfect candidate for me. So?
I always vote for the best one. Eyes wide open.
So your 80% friend is your enemy?
Not my enemy. Just not my ally. And 80% is about 40% too high.
Yea and all your principals brought us in November 2009 was president Obama who is systematically destroying America..
I'd love to have that kind of candidate agasint either of my two senators.
Typing this I just spent all the time Carly Fiorina is worth.
Stated positions in a race for the primary mean nothing.
Exhibit A: Rudy
Exhibit B: McCain
Exhibit C: Flipper
Exhibit D: Fred
Exhibit E: Huck
Only if those stated positions reflect your past do they matter. Otherwise, it’s hot political air
I've not been a booster of hers, but it's a no brainer to me now, she needs to be supported.
Oh yeah, and Obama still has two years to stack the Supreme Court into his own image.
I just don’t support RINOs. Its that simple. Anyway, it’s not my vote. I’m in WA, not CA. See my profile page statement that hasn’t changed since the day I came here.
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