Posted on 09/22/2015 5:37:48 AM PDT by jimbo123
A former CEO gets taken to the woodshed for job cuts—and loses an election. Sound familiar? Carly Fiorina has a Mitt Romney problem.
Fiorina, like Romney, is a wealthy former CEO from an affluent Republican family. Like Romney, she entered the Republican presidential contest assuming that her record running a large company would be one of her greatest assets. But she may be about to learn that her opponents have little trouble turning that record into her greatest liability.
Like Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital, the private equity firm at which he oversaw the dismantling of numerous companies purchased by Bain, Fiorina’s record at Hewlett-Packard was notable for the number of workers fired on her watch. Romney’s Republican primary opponents, as well as the Obama campaign, attacked Romney’s record at Bain so aggressively that by the end of the 2012 campaign some people were using Bain as a verb: to destroy a wealthy candidate’s public image by attacking their business record.
Fiorina is about to get Bained. And if history is any guide, it’s an assault she may not be able to withstand.
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Her time running Hewlett-Packard was highly controversial. Fiorina deflects criticism of her 5½ years at the helm by noting that the company’s revenue doubled during that time. But, as Bloomberg View’s Justin Fox notes, “that was mainly because she made a gigantic and controversial acquisition.” Fiorina acquired Compaq, a computer manufacturer, for $19 billion in 2002—a move largely received by those within (PDF) and observing HP as unwise. Dell Computer’s Michael Dell called it the “dumbest deal of the decade.” By the time Fiorina was pushed out of HP three years after the Compaq deal, and given a $21 million severance package, HP had laid off 30,000 workers.
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I don’t care how bad a Republican Mitt was, but, he is infinitely better than the disaster Obummer has been. And, shame on those who inflicted Obola on us for a second term.
And Donald Drumpf is the new Benito Mussolini.
“Fiorina is the one who gets the most attacks here, so she must be perceived as the one best able to present a rational conservative alternative to the leftist populist Trump.”
No, it just means that in her own right, she’s a phony female jerk playing off of her “wymenhood” and a lousy past CEO who was never hired by any corporation to be a CEO again for over 10 years. There’s a reason for that folks. Lack of trust in her abilities to do anything other than bring a company down. I don’t want her as CEO of this country either.
“And Donald Drumpf is the new Benito Mussolini.”
And Donald Drumpf, like his German father before him, is a greater success in life than you could ever be, and will be our new President of the United States. Make America Great Again!
That’s also what the far lefties say/tweet.
How clever. Not.
Okay, now that you’ve gotten that our of your system, on to insult 343...
The more deranged you folks become, but more sane Trump appears to be.
Okay, out of the Leftist closet everyone. Trump is public enemy number one. He’ll probably do a lot of what he’s promising he’ll do.
Can’t have that. Oh the huge manatees...
Don’t forget the Lucent employees. Someone from there will eventually spill the beans on the faulty (Enron style) bookkeeping that was discovered just before she left
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