McCain lost WH race because Sarah Palin didn't take MY advice on the economy, says Carly Fiorina

The London Daily Mail ^ | May 5, 2015 | Francesca Chambers

[2ndDivisionVet]

* Fiorina claims in Rising to the Challenge that John McCain asked her to help Palin 'get up to speed on the economic issues facing the country'
* 'I never did get the chance to fulfill Senator McCain's request ... although I made numerous requests to meet with her during the campaign'
* To this day Fiorina, a contender for the 2016 GOP nomination, says she still hasn't met the Tea Party superstar
* Palin endorsed Fiorina in 2010 when she was competing in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate in California, but it was via Facebook
* A spokeswoman for Fiorina's presidential campaign told Daily Mail Online in an email after this article was published that the candidate 'was simply making the point that during the 2008 election she didn't meet Gov. Palin'

The 2008 presidential campaign may have turned out differently for the Republican Party if Sarah Palin and John McCain hadn't blown off her advice, Carly Fiorina suggests in her new book, released this morning.

Former Hewlett Packard executive Fiorina reveals in her memoir, Rising to the Challenge, that then-Republican presidential nominee McCain asked her to help Palin 'get up to speed on the economic issues facing the country' but Palin wasn't interested in her counsel.

Fiorina, a contender for the 2016 GOP nomination, says she still hasn't met the Tea Party superstar even though Palin endorsed her in 2010 when she was competing in the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate in California.

A surrogate for McCain in 2008 and a member of his inner circle, Fiorina claims in her memoir that two days before the Arizona senator made public his surprising pick for vice president, he called her on the phone and asked her to advise Palin....

[leapfrog0202]

WOW - what a load of garbage! McCain saw an immediate boost in his poll numbers after picking Sarah and if it wasn’t for her, he’d have lost in a landslide!

[faithhopecharity]

I;m sorry Carly, but McCain lost because he was McCain.
Indeed, Palin helped pull up the R vote.

[A CA Guy]

McCain was never going to win. Nothing minus Obama killing children on video would have gotten that old bastard elected. Should have had even Gingrich.

[sten]

i’m 100% certain mccain lost the white house because he didn’t even have the bawls to call out his opponents obvious connections to islam

Sarah was THE ONLY REASON he was even in the ball park

[faithhopecharity]

Gingrich for all his problematical aspects still did some good work in congress and certainly presented his positions and viewpoints far better than mcCain usually does.

yes, Gingrich would have been a far better nominee than McCain.

McCain was, I believe, put on the ballot to Throw the election.

Tell me Im wrong...?

[RichInOC]

I hope you’ve learned a valuable lesson today, Carleton. Once you enter an American political campaign coming from anywhere on the right, the people in the media are for the most part not your friends.

[2ndDivisionVet]

She didn’t already know that after running for a US Senate seat in California?

[RichInOC]

Apparently not.

[gusty]

It is embarrassing. I call these threads IQ tests. It is amazing that people do not bother to actual read the articles before they make comments. I cringe reading some of the knee jerk reactions.

[cynwoody]

She did a lousy job with Hewlett Packard. She is NOT a business woman. HP never recovered, and she is known as one of the worst CEOs ever.

Download exactly 30,000 sad faces here: http://www.carlyfiorina.org/

[Teacher317]

Carly (born Cara Sneed) was a philosophy and medieval history major... dropped out of law school after one semester... was a hairdresser and a receptionist and a secretary at a temp agency, each for less than a year... then became a real estate broker, and moved to Italy with her new husband where she taught English for a semester. That was all in 1976-1979 (ages 22-25). Not exactly the start that most promising corporate careers or political careers feature.

1980 she graduated with an MBA from Maryland (okay, good start)...
1984 divorces husband #1, and quickly marries Mr Frank Fiorina, an AT&T exec. <-- Note how her career starts after this marital upgrade
1990, she graduates from MIT with an MS in management
1996, she leads the spinoff of Lucent from AT&T, including planning and implementing the IPO.
Later in 1996, Fiorina was appointed president of Lucent's consumer products business
In 1997, she was appointed chair of Lucent's consumer communications joint venture with Philips consumer communications.
Later in 1997, she was named group president for the global service provider business at Lucent, overseeing marketing and sales for the company's largest customer segment.
In 1998, Fortune magazine named Fiorina the "most powerful woman in business" in its inaugural listing.

1999 heads HP, 2001 forces a merger with Compaq (being fought all the way by Mr Hewlitt, sone of the HP founder), and in 2005 is forced to resign. 2008 she goes on to be named the worst tech CEO of all time (politics of hating right-wing women?)

She survived breast cancer... She took on Barbara Boxer very publicly and would never back down ("I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.")... She is a great outspoken Conservative... but she is not Presidential material. Nor did she truly burst through any glass ceilings since she married her way towards the top at AT&T

[McGruff]

Badmouthing Sarah Palin isn't a good start there Carly. I already crossed you off my list.

[trebb]

Time for Carly to head for home.

[DoodleDawg]

To this day Fiorina, a contender for the 2016 GOP nomination, says she still hasn't met the Tea Party superstar

To say that Fiorina is a contender is a gross overstatement.

[DoodleDawg]

I can tell you why John McCain lost in two words: George. Bush.

I can tell you why John McCain lost in two words, too: John McCain.

[Sirius Lee]

BBB - Back Biting B***h.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

To give the illusion of choice. Pretty obvious.

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Sometimes it’s hard to see where one party ends and the other begins. Wasn’t McCain implicated in the IRS targeting of Conservative groups?

[NTHockey]

>>McCain didn’t lose the race. McCain threw the race!<<

Exactly, agree 100% When your sole aim is to get the nomination, the nomination that you say was stolen in 2000, you’re going to lose. When you run a half-hearted campaign, you’re going to lose. And, when you agree with your opponent 90-95% of the time (as McCain did), you’re definitely going to lose.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

And, when you agree with your opponent 90-95% of the time (as McCain did), you’re definitely going to lose.

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Meanwhile we have the idiots on this website telling us to support the “moderate” RINOs.

[marktwain]

“McCain was, I believe, put on the ballot to Throw the election.

Tell me Im wrong...?”

Yes, but by whom? It was the old media that got McCain on the Republican ballot, because they figured he would be easy to beat. McCain, on the campaign, even referred to the media as “my base”. Once he won the primary, they turned on him. We are living in a mediacracy.

Allowing the old media to “moderate” the Republican primary debates, and thus chose the Republican candidates is insane.

This article (mostly the headline) is just media spin to dump on both Fiorina and Palin.