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Carlyfornia, Here We Come
IBD Editorials ^ | September 2, 2010 | Investors Business Daily staff

Posted on 09/02/2010 5:29:54 PM PDT by Kaslin

Politics: California's Senate debate was between someone who knows how to pull a wagon and someone who wants everyone to ride. The choice is creating wealth and jobs or redistributing wealth while destroying jobs.

California hasn't elected a Republican senator since Pete Wilson in 1988, but if Wednesday's debate and recent polls are any indication, the political sea change of 2010 may be about to wash up on Golden State beaches.

The debate wasn't so much conservative vs. liberal as between freedom and dependency, with incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer attacking former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina as serving the interests of "billionaires, millionaires and companies that outsource jobs," as if California's 12.3% unemployment rate is the fault of someone who created jobs in the private sector.

Fiorina responded to Boxer, who at last report had not taken a vow of poverty, by noting that with 28 years in the Senate, she's part of the problem, not the solution: "If you look at Sen. Boxer's long track record of 28 years in Washington, D.C., you will see this: She is for more taxes, she is for more spending, she is for more regulation and she is also for big government and elite, extreme environmental groups."

Boxer is the quintessential liberal Democrat who paints everything with a class-warfare brush. She fails to realize that no one has ever gotten a job from a poor person and that wealth can be created, not merely taken from those who work very hard and given to those who work not at all.

(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: barbaraboxer; boxer; ca; ca2010; california; carlyfornia; congress; defeatboxer; democrats; fiorina; obama; rememberinnovember; senate
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1 posted on 09/02/2010 5:29:55 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Fiorina boxed Boxer’s ears!


2 posted on 09/02/2010 5:33:27 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Kaslin; sheik yerbouty; NormsRevenge; null and void; celtic gal; doug from upland; ...

Boxer’s and Pelosi’s names elicit profanity whenever they’re mentioned whether it be at social events, at the grocery store, at the mall, wherever. Feinstein is in the same league with these two.

No love around here for any of the three.


3 posted on 09/02/2010 5:33:57 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead (Take back our country on November 2, 2010.)
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To: Kaslin
The debate wasn't so much conservative vs. liberal as between freedom and dependency...

...or between brains and rocks.

4 posted on 09/02/2010 5:34:01 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: Kaslin

Fiorina drew a lot of blood on the economy and jobs.


5 posted on 09/02/2010 5:34:37 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Kaslin

Wasn’t even close. Carly won the debate by a landslide.


6 posted on 09/02/2010 5:35:21 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: Kaslin

In before the FioRino bashers who apparently would rather have Boxer remain in office.


7 posted on 09/02/2010 5:39:36 PM PDT by newheart (History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
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To: Kaslin

Hate to sound like a broken record, but I won’t be convinced until after the votes are cast, counted and CERTIFIED. Until then, too much “strangeness” can occur...


8 posted on 09/02/2010 5:39:54 PM PDT by ssaftler (Arizonans: Doing the job that Americans won't do.)
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To: Ev Reeman
“Wasn’t even close. Carly won the debate by a landslide.”

Go Carly! I am worried though, in these close races across the country, the grave yard vote, union rigging and Acorn mischief will be rampant. The GOP will have to be extremely viligent to minimize these creeps actions.

9 posted on 09/02/2010 5:41:33 PM PDT by snoringbear (Government is the Pimp,)
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To: Kaslin

Carly,RINO or not, Boxer has been destroying CA for as long as I have lived here... Beyond time to go.


10 posted on 09/02/2010 5:42:12 PM PDT by DreamingWest
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To: DreamingWest

“Carly,RINO or not, Boxer has been destroying CA for as long as I have lived here... Beyond time to go.”

I’d vote for a bag of dog crap over Boxer.

I doubt I will be happy with Fiorina, maybe I will be surprised, anything would be an improvement. But at this point it is ONLY about getting rid of Boxer at all costs. It’s critical for republicans to get control of the senate again and that is the larger national issue at stake that trumps whether she is a RINO or not.


11 posted on 09/02/2010 5:46:53 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares ( Refusing to kneel before the "messiah".)
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To: DreamingWest

I suppose there is no chance Queen Nancy can be unseated.?


12 posted on 09/02/2010 5:48:35 PM PDT by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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To: Vinnie

Absolutely -— NONE!


13 posted on 09/02/2010 5:53:27 PM PDT by TaMoDee
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To: Kaslin

I hope Fiorina wins, but no one on this board had better raise an eyebrow when Fiorina starts voting like Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.

Yeah, of course Fiorina is miles away better than Boxer, and to see Boxer kicked to the curb would be a special delight, but I have no illusions that Fiorina will be a dedicated RINO that in all likelihood will servre to pull Obama’s chestnuts from the fire in the future — and perhaps on more than one occasion. Think John McCain in a skirt. Just so everyone is aware of this probability.


14 posted on 09/02/2010 5:56:40 PM PDT by Obadiah (I can see November from my house!)
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Even a RINO would be superior to a committed far left commie liberal like Boxer.


15 posted on 09/02/2010 5:59:15 PM PDT by Ev Reeman
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To: newheart

i have yet to see anyone here say they support Boxer.

please post such a preposterous claim if you have proof...I’d like to holler at them


16 posted on 09/02/2010 6:00:47 PM PDT by wardaddy (effed up times..)
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To: Ev Reeman
Wasn’t even close. Carly won the debate by a landslide.

I'm glad to see that Fiorina won the debate. It's always better to win than lose. But I don't know that it will make a difference. In her first run for the Senate, Boxer debated Bruce Hershenson. It was a slaughter. Hershenson beat her about as bad as I've ever seen anyone beaten in a major debate. But it didn't make a difference because the type of idiots and zealots who vote for Boxer didn't listen to the debated and even if they did, they were going to vote for Boxer no matter what.

The state has a 2 to 1 voter registration in favor of Democrats and that's hard to overcome. And NEVER underestimate the unbounded stupidity of the California electorate. The typical California voter is simply dumb as a box of rocks. Maybe this time Fiorina will get through to the Voters. 12.5% unemployment just might be the reason for a break through. She has a better chance of winning than a man just because women are still apt to vote for a conservative woman over a conservative man. Although the polls showed Campbell doing better against Boxer than Fiorina. Go figure. I'll keep my fingers crossed and vote for Fiorina but I'm not going to get my hopes up. I've been disappointed too many times.
17 posted on 09/02/2010 6:11:50 PM PDT by truthguy (Good intentions are not enough.)
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To: wardaddy

No one in their right mind would actually say they support Boxer on this forum. But let’s be real. Carly gets regularly bashed as a Rino. One can only deduce that someone who seeks to diminish Fiorina must know they are helping ‘Madam Senator.’


18 posted on 09/02/2010 6:19:48 PM PDT by newheart (History is an outbreak of madness--Ellul)
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To: Ev Reeman
Fiorina drew a lot of blood on the economy and jobs.

Good for her. If she can stay on message, this will be her best weapon. Any Republican who doesn't bash Democrats on the economy and jobs is too stupid to understand the gift they have been handed.

19 posted on 09/02/2010 6:31:18 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: newheart

We can’t call her Madame. How about we call her unemployed?

This has a nice ring to it.


20 posted on 09/02/2010 6:31:35 PM PDT by Catsrus (Have)
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