Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 10/12/2010 4:03:18 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
California GOP Senate nominee Carly Fiorina is skipping a chance to appear with Sarah Palin at a major Republican National Committee fundraiser so she can campaign with Sen. John McCain instead.
Fiorina has not yet announced the Saturday campaign appearances with McCain, but a campaign source tells POLITICO that she will be spending her time on the stump with the 2008 GOP presidential nominee rather than his running mate, the former Alaska governor.
POLITICO reported last week that both Fiorina and GOP gubernatorial Meg Whitman would be skipping the RNC fundraiser in Anaheim, citing scheduling conflicts.
The RNC is heavily promoting the Oct. 16 event, which is expected to be a major haul at a critical juncture in the campaign. Tickets start at $20.10, with admission running up to $127.25. Two tickets and an opportunity to meet Palin are being sold for $950.
Palin endorsed Fiorina in the primary, shocking conservatives in California who had lined up behind state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore.
Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, was one of McCain’s top surrogates during the 2008 campaign until she bluntly said in an interview that neither he nor Palin was qualified to lead a major corporation.
Response: In Kalifornia Lenin would be considered a right wing extremist. Thus, on a Kalifornia scale Fiorina is ok in picking McCain.
It’s a non-story being totally eaten up by the Sarah-haters. I just hope that McCain doesn’t rub off on her.
Spinning Agilent off from HP was a mistake of epic proportions. I don’t know what you mean by “product side,” but if you are referring to the personal computing market, HP has been miserable.
Agilent has been doing pretty well now that it’s free of the PC dogs.
re: scatter-brained
Boxer is a doltish moron
listening to her makes me want to bang my head against a wall until she doesn’t seem quite so unspeakably awful
the only way she got to be US Senator is a servile liberal media and a brain-dead electorate
'Course having zero integrity helped alot, too.
She is the scum on the sole of the political system.
Politico?
Sorry, no sale.
A conservative should never help out a RINO and a conservative should never want the help of a RINO.
“Politico?
Sorry, no sale.”
Exactly.
Too late. She was one of his top campaign managers. She’s got RINOitis from head to toe.
Careful now. You’ll be accused of fomenting death threats and shilling for Obama.
I didn't say you should vote for Boxer. Carly would be a big improvement over her, besides Senators don't have executive authority. Her executive abilities, however, compare very unfavorably with Palin's.
You know that how?
My explanation was getting too long, so I deleted it. There is a much less negative one here. I will say that my connection with HP products goes back to the '70s, and I sold my HP stock while Carly was running the place.
Exactly......
The left wing media operatives are doing the divide and conquer nonsense.
I am sick of all the CA DUers pretending to be “concerned “trolls trashing her here.
I am sick of all the CA DUers pretending to be “concerned “trolls trashing her here.
She needs votes. Not money. McCain is more popular then Palin in California. Among Republicans and the general electorate. Palin would do the same thing if roles were reversed.
Fiorina is still going to lose.
Yup. McCain sells to unaffiliated voters in CA. This is a blue state Senate race, and all of the potential Palin votes have already been tapped. This is a smart move by Fiorina.
To win this race, Carly need to convince the few true undecideds left to vote for her. That's why you have your photo-ops with McCain instead of Palin in Blue California.
Interestingly enough, Most of the blue state GOP candidates have followed this plan as well. Heck, Ken Buck was offered a Jim DeMint visit POST-PRIMARY, but has not appeared with Senator DeMint since winning the nomination, and he's in a swing state. Dino Rossi has suddenly lost his desire to be seen with Jim DeMint in blue WA as well. O'Donnell has stopped appearing with pretty much any Conservative in the hopes of pulling an upset in DE, instead having rallies for other DE candidates to make nice with the Liberal state GOP in the hopes of having their machinery behind her on election day.
There is a such thing as political pragmatism, despite the demands of some here that Conservatives openly run in the general election as Jim DeMint/Sarah Palin Republicans even in blue states. No matter how much the purists howl, candidates aren't interested in losing their races. And the purists will never call-out their selected candidates anyway, just candidates they don't want to succeed.
You'll notice, for example, nobody is demanding Jim DeMint run on a platform of making it illegal for single mothers and homosexuals to teach, even though this is his view. Nobody is demanding Ken Buck get lynched despite attacking Tea Partiers/Birthers as nutcases. Carly Fiorina, however, is supposed to tour L.A. arm-in-arm with Sarah Palin in blue California.
The criticism is crap, and the same folks leveling it at FR would excuse any of their chosen candidate in a SECOND for this and many worse sins.
It is fun, however, hearing from these folks about how Plain is not a serious Presidential threat, as they appear about every hour on FR trying to take out this non-threat. LOL
What, no LOST treaty retreading today? LOL
Makes sense to me, didn’t she work for McCain’s campaign,
way before he chose Sarah?
Oh, I’m sorry. I didn’t know I was supposed to be indifferent to the partisan breakdowns in California, past history and current polling trends. Please....go on. Tell me I’m wrong and lay out the factual case as to why she’s going to win in a heavily Democratic state when no leading indicators point to her even being tied? I suppose next you’ll tell me I shouldn’t express confidence C.D. is going to lose in Delaware too by an even larger margin then Fiorina.
If this is personal to you then I can understand hope but the Rossi/Patti M. race is even closer in my own state of WA and I’ve been a pessimist on that too. Of course having an election stolen once tends to make one a little cynical up here.
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