Understanding Carly Fiorina - [The Real Carly Fiorina 04/10/2010]

RedState ^ | September 7th, 2010 at 12:17 PM | Erick Erickson

[Yossarian]

Same nonsense we hear every election cycle from the supporters of candidates that simply do not pass muster in terms of being a conservative.

AMEN!

[Theodore R.]

No, she hasn’t won an election and I believe never will. Nevertheless, she does have some good one-liners.

[Timber Rattler]

Thank you for posting this. I’ve been using it on the other Fiorina threads that have been popping up around here over the past few days to remind folks what a RINO loser she really is.

[Timber Rattler]

For all you purists out there: Get over it.

No.

[Timber Rattler]

Fiorina was also the outsourcing queen, which Boxer hung around her neck like an albatross during their Senate contest.

Nobody's going to believe that you want to bring jobs back to America, when you were one of the big CEOs who were pushing them offshore in the first place.

[Timber Rattler]

What she’s doing right now is admirable and should be encouraged.

No, it's all self-serving and designed to first get her into the VP slot, and then eventually into the Oval Office.

[Finny]

Thank you -- good post. I remembered that I had done my research on Fiorina here in California back when, and it made me decide to put my vote elsewhere, but I'd forgotten the details.

With "conservatives" (let alone REPUBLICANS!) like Fiorina, who needs liberal Democrats?

The GOP had better understand that I will only vote for what I want to WIN. If Fiorina won and started being her leftist big government self, the Republicans/conservatives who voted "against" the other guy by voting for Fiorina, would be 100 percent responsible because they voted for her and put her in office.

RULE OF THUMB IN THE BALLOT BOX: If you know you would end up complaining and fighting most of the things the person you're voting for would do once in office ... VOTE FOR SOMEONE ELSE OR STAY HOME because there is no such thing as voting "against." You only get to vote "for."

[Finny]

For all you purists out there: Get over it. There is no such thing as a perfect candidate, one who satisfies all elements of the party. There AIN’T one!

Pal, I've never once met anyone seeking a perfect candidate, and I will bet hard cold cash that you haven't, either.

YOU can vote for Republicans who grow government if you want. You can tell yourself that you're voting "against" more government. But if your vote puts into office an agent of the very things you despise, you will be responsible for the crap that happens when you get what you voted for.

Find someone who has the cajones or ovaries to win and back ‘em 100 percent with all you have. Otherwise prepare to live in a Marxist hell for the foreseeable future. JMHO!!

As it happens, that is why I am 100 percent behind Cruz, which means I'm AGAINST Republicans like Fiorina and Santorum and even Walker -- if conservatives want to nail this 2016 presidential primary, they need to reject all other candidates than Cruz NOW. Now that Cruz has officially entered the race, all others are aids to the Marxist hell because they are obstructions to Cruz's success.

[Finny]

What she’s doing right now is admirable and should be encouraged. What she did before I don’t give two craps.

Yep. Ignorance is bliss. Go ahead and encourage her, she might mean it this time! LOL!!

[Sybeck1]

She has to be running for Bush’s VP. Need to see if she talks bad about him to prove me otherwise

[Finny]

If Carly wants to help, she should endorse Cruz.

EXACTLY.

[manc]

I had bought three HP laptops over a series of a handful of years and everyone of them was crap for what I was paying. Don’t get me started on the Indian call centers .

For four months I had this going on.

Hi My name is Steve how can I help you.

I have a problem

No problem , no problem no problem

For four frigging months, of course there is a problem, just give me the address to get it sent off too while under warranty. Oh and your name is not Steve, Mark, Mike, or Jim either .

[manc]

Is she not also socially liberal like Paul, Bush ?

[stephenjohnbanker]

Believe me, your experiences with HP is shared by thousands.

[DPMD]

Bingo! Boxer gave her several opportunities to hit a few out of the park, and Fiorina was either too timid, too liberal, or too dense to swing. One glaring example comes to mind: Boxer, the malignant midget from Marin (thanks to Jeff Katz) said Fiorina outsourced 30, 000 CA jobs. Fiorina had the chance to blame boxer’s liberal war on business but passed.

[Carry_Okie]

Still, it's good to have her in the race for President. It helps kill the Republican "War Against Women" meme. It dilutes the RINO vote while helping develop the impression of "inclusiveness." She (supposedly) represents a high-tech future, thus helping to kill the "Republicans are backward" meme.

What's not to like about it?

[HiTech RedNeck]

The downside is her progressive streak... that would embolden others in the GOP to jump on board such a bandwagon. I wouldn’t get too charmed, too quick.

[SoConPubbie]

It dilutes the RINO vote while helping develop the impression of "inclusiveness."

Our problem is that her RINO character and actions are not well known and she is not playing it up or saying anything right now that would accurately and honestly peg her as a RINO. Instead, as all lying politicians do, she is running to the right before the primaries in an attempt to mislead.

[Carry_Okie]

The downside is her progressive streak... that would embolden others in the GOP to jump on board such a bandwagon.

The more RINO candidates the better. My concern is the spate of early big-buck open primaries all bunched together in this nomination cycle, a plan dedicated to nominating Bush. Hence, anything to keep diluting that RINO vote is important at this stage. If we can get a conservative past that early hurdle I have little doubt that Carly Fiorina will not get far beyond that point.

[Carry_Okie]

Instead, as all lying politicians do, she is running to the right before the primaries in an attempt to mislead.

Do you really think the Republican primary vote is so ill-informed? Our biggest weakness as a party re our tendency to nominate RINOs is that conservatives fall for the "he can win," meme, having NOTHING to do with what the candidate says. Effectively, the conservative electorate is just as cowardly about media noise as are our GOP representatives. The fear mongering you are selling feeds into that.