Carly Fiorina channels Dede Scozzafava, wields race/gender card against conservative rival

Grass-roots conservatives, your attention, please: The NRCC and GOP dumped $1 million of your hard-earned money into radical Leftist Republican Dede Scozzafava’s NY-23’s campaign — money that was squandered trashing mainstream conservative candidate Doug Hoffman, who lost the race by less than 3,400 votes.

Now, the GOP elite Senate candidate in California, Carly Fiorina, is running against Democrat Barbara Boxer by…trashing mainstream conservative GOP rival Chuck DeVore.

Fiorina’s strongest argument against DeVore? He’s a white man and she’s not.

Really:

Asked why she is a better candidate than her Republican primary opponent Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Calif.), Fiorina said that a woman stands a better chance of defeating Boxer.
“I have nothing against white men, I am married to one,” Fiorina said at a breakfast at Americans for Tax Reform. “But Barbara Boxer has defeated [them] over and over again.”

Political observers with long memories should remind Fiorina how Boxer engineered GOP defeat. Bruce Herschensohn, the Republican candidate in 1992, was a staunch and unapologetic conservative talk show host who came within 5 points of beating the San Francisco liberal. Desperate to ensure Boxer’s victory, dirty Dem operatives launched a last-minute smear campaign by shouting about strip clubs.

Herschensohn’s skin color and chromosomes had nothing to do with Boxer’s win.

In keeping with Fiorina’s identity politics-driven campaign, she also said today that even though she didn’t follow the nomination closely, she would have voted to confirm Obama SCOTUS pick Sonia Sotomayor.

An Obama echo, not a choice.

***

Today’s rejected RNC solicitation form of the day comes from reader Genene H:

And from reader Stephen:

I just wanted you to know that the Republican Party called me for the 3rd time in a week. I finally decided to answer and give them a piece of my mind. They wanted money immediately for some rallies at college campuses to oppose Obama’s policies and cited the leadership of Newt Gingrich. I said I was disappointed in Gingrich, and that his support of candidates like Dede Scozzafava in New York, who supported the stimulus bill, union check card, was pro-choice, and pro gay marriage, was too much for me. The guy tried to argue that Scozzafava had gotten a bad rap and had tried to lower taxes and agreed with Republicans on many things, to which I responded that she voted more liberally than 46 other Democrats in NY government! Then I said, her support of Owens after she withdrew from the race kind of confirmed what I thought all along. I left by telling him I would support individual conservative candidates, like Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, but that I would not give money to the Republican party to support candidates like Scozzafava. Thanks for all your great work.

Stick to your own state. ...more than enough liberals to offset in Houston and Austin without adding more Californians.

Saturday, two senators from Texas voted against Reid's Obamascare bill, California sent two votes FOR.

We're doing our part, even though the filthy vermin have been streaming in from California and yankeeland.

I'd appreciate even a 10% conservative vote from a California senator, rather than have a good conservative lose in an unwinnable state.

Do you think Ronald Reagan himself would win if he were running for a California senate seat today?

Are you saying you want the GOP to “select” our candidates for us just so we can give Dirty Reid “problems”?

If so, then your way of thinking is a major part of the problem. The people need to take back control of our states and nation and the first place to start is by selecting our candidates not some good ole boys club doing it for us.

If you’re not with us, then move out of the way and let us deal with our problems.

As for the communist bastion comment. You might have more positive interaction amongst FReepers by being less misanthropic.

California's Scozzafava - Carly Fiorina?

Snips: HP’s famous Carly Fiorina .......................is known for removing them (jobs) while CEO.

There is a noticeable negative sediment from HP employees; I’ve had many callers to my show state that they are none to pleased with Fiorina’s managerial skills. Many callers reference her Compaq deal and decision to outsourcing jobs to India, while hundreds of American HP employees packed their boxes for the exits.

She has made comments that are seen to be supportive of President Obama’s stimulus, and bailout packages.

Worse yet, she has referenced the last frontier of true free speech – the Internet – as a territory that needs to be submitted to government oversight and regulation.

Thanks MD.

I'm going to place some of DeVore's comments on Carly here so others can evaluate them for themselves:

On Carly’s comments in the past, Devore references her columns in the business trade magazines.

“She says she’s against the stimulus, but if you read the trade publications that she has written for, she has said things like (about Obama’s stimulus) her comment that no money went to bio-tech and it all went to roads, or she also said that it was good that millions went to the broadband industry.”

On Carly’s support of “Cap and Trade”, DeVore references her bi-partisan stance with Senator Lyndsey Graham.

“She has said good things about “Cap and Trade”, and praised Senator Lyndsey Graham’s supposedly bi-partisan work with John Kerry, one of the most liberal members of the Senate, over his “Cap and Trade” energy tax; that Barbara Boxer is now pushing through Congress.”

On Carly’s support of government regulation of the Internet, DeVore mentions her desire for more regulations.

“She was very clearly asked by the interviewer; do you believe there needs to be more government control, and or regulation of the Internet? And you heard her – with her own words – that she is for more government oversight of the Internet.”
“There’s big difference between regulating content and free speech on the Internet and going after actual criminals. You see, anything that is illegal in real life is still illegal online, like child pornography. Is she intimating that women need protection from free speech online? Or that a woman that voluntarily agrees to be photographed in certain suggestive posses, that she needs protection from big government; to come in and tell her that she shouldn’t do that? With free speech comes personal responsibilities.”

While all eyes are on the GOP’s gubernatorial fight, if Chuck DeVore can raise enough money, and gain enough media attention, the GOP’s US Senate race may display the best fireworks.

Early on it is Carly acting like she is the only player in the elephant’s room, focusing her statements on Barbara Boxer. That’s good strategy. But DeVore will need to be addressed, He is well connected, well supported and he owns the Tea Party Patriots passion, and respect.

Let the games begin.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.