"I vill squish you FLAT, Ha Ha!"
Posted on 06/03/2010 9:43:22 AM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
Let’s chat about the race for the U.S. Senate Republican primary, shall we? Let’s talk sex and conservatives. As a woman, I am told I should fall in line and vote for Carly Fiorina. We girls should stick together, right?
Ms. Fiorina herself said that women should vote for her because she’s not a “white man” like her conservative opponent, Chuck DeVore.
"With all due respect and deep affection for white men, I am married to one," Fiorina said at a breakfast at Americans for Tax Reform, according to The Hill. "But [Barbara Boxer] knows how to beat them in California; she has done it over and over and over again."
When I saw that quote, even my ovaries told me to run the other way. Any candidate who thinks she or he is more qualified because of their sex is a candidate we should ignore.
For the first time in my life, I went to work for a candidate. California and the country have a lot to lose in the upcoming election, and I decided to support Chuck DeVore, a real conservative with common sense solutions for what ails our state and country. DeVore is a veteran, he has enough political experience to work effectively ( but not so much that it taints him, a la Boxer), and he has already shown that he stands for the principles on which our great country was founded.
Did I mention he’s conservative?
Allow me to mention a few other reasons women in particular should vote for DeVore (these reasons apply to men, too).
I could go on, but you get the picture. DeVore consistently stands with the Founding Father’s principles and Fiorina goes wobbly on them. We know what happens when Republicans vote for the more moderate candidate: We elect folks like Calif. Gov. Arnold SchwarzenKennedy. When I launched the recall against Gov. Gray Davis on my radio show, I hoped for a conservative replacement. Look what “moderates” brought us, a failed state. We can’t afford another “moderate” mistake.
Sorry Sister Carly. If I’m thinking with my brain instead of my ovaries, I vote for Chuck DeVore.
Dh & I are both supporting DeVore & will vote for him in the primary next wk.
The local republican machinery is not pleased.
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Melanie, Melanie, didn’t you get the note that Sarah Palin think Carly is, by far, the better choice?
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Sorry Sister Carly. If I’m thinking with my brain instead of my ovaries, I vote for Chuck DeVore.Melanie honey, don't be so subtle! LOL
Thanks for the ping C3
Now if we only had a real candidate for Guv....oh wait....therre IS Ken Miller.
Vote early, vote often, as they say. Because I lived through 8 years of Governor Moonbeam and, like bad wine, he only gets worse with age!
"I vill squish you FLAT, Ha Ha!"
Fiorina's shortcomings notwithstanding, this is a valid argument. Despite a total lack of charisma Boxer wins over and over again because - as a stalwart defender of the Holy Welfare State - she has the MSM's enthusiastic assistance in caricaturing any male challenger as racist/sexist/anti-gay. DeVore would fare no better, because he wouldn't be running against Boxer - he would be running against the entire weight of the MSM/Hollywood/SEIU machine, whose campaign apparatus is highly calibrated to take out people like him.
Fiorina might throw off that vicious attack machine enough to allow her to beat Boxer, especially this year. She might not vote much differently than Boxer in the Senate, so maybe it doesn't matter, but a DeVore would have no shot unless he grows his hair out longer, has an affair with Megan Fox, and snags the lead role in "Ocean's Fourteen". :)
Fiorina's shortcomings notwithstanding, this is a valid argument.
Boxer has won three races for the Senate seat. Saying she won over and over and over again over white males is not correct. One of the three opponents was of Chinese ancestry (Matt Fong, 1998)
The closest race was the first, against a conservative (Bruce Herschensohn, 1992) by a relatively small margin (4,9%), thanks to a last minute smear. That year was the so-called "year of the woman" where Clinton and the Democrats were in control, so she should have theoretically won by a larger margin. Compare that to the moderate Fong lost by twice that margin and the inept, invisible establishment candidate Bill Jones by twice of Fong's margin.
Fiorini being a woman won't play much better than Fong being ethnic. Fiorini has portrayed herself as being "pro-life" which Boxer will attack as being "anti-choice," which is the reason some people (not I) think Tom Campbell is the better choice. This somewhat negates her supposed support with California women. Combine that with the fact that her "pro-life" rhetoric is just that, rhetoric...
Quote Carly: “I do not believe where a potential judicial nominee stands on that issue [of abortion rights] is a qualifier or an unqualifier.”
Quote Carly: “...(W)hile that is a very important issue, it is frankly a decided issue. The law is clear in the state of California, where there is a constitutional guarantee to the right to an abortion. So why are we talking about a theoretical issue?”
These are not the words of a pro-life activist. Supporting activist judges like Sonya Sotomayor does nothing to promote the pro-life cause or any other conservative causes; in fact, it does the reverse.
When faced with those facts, true pro-lifers won't be eager to embrace her (despite sell-out pro-life endorsements of the California Pro Life Council and Susan B. Anthony List... the pro-life movement is far greater than these groups) and pro-aborts will vote for Boxer anyway.
Boxer and her allies will portray Fiorina as a double-talking fraud, which she is, on this and other issues. Fiorina will be portrayed as a failed CEO who is using her golden parachute to buy an election, which is also true. These facts make Carly the weakest candidate (although Campbell is a close second).
Polling has not shown Fiorina to have stronger support among women than Campbell or DeVore. Many women, such as Melanie Morgan, see through Fiorina's fascade, and pro-abort women will flock to Boxer anyway.
It's high time to stand for a principled candidate in Chuck Devore, instead of somebody like Carly who has built herself a nice multi-million dollar sandcastle which will be demolished and swept away. Preferably I'd rather have that happen next week rather than in November vs. Boxer.
Fiorina cannot defeat Boxer. Period.
But, hey, if Republicans really want to play this so-called game of alleged electability, let's nominate an ethnic queer who doesn't believe in Republican principles and who supports the MSM/Hollywood/SEIU agenda... oh, wait, I think they're already called Democrats.
You’re not the first to make that mistake, and you probably won’t be the last. ;-)
I miss Melanie on “America’s Morning News.”
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