Fiorina is CNN-created flavor of the week

The Memphis Commercial Appeal ^ | September 28, 2015 | Dana Milbank, The Washington Post

[2ndDivisionVet]

Sorry, Carly. You're peaking too early. Just ask President Herman Cain.

Last week's CNN poll shows Carly Fiorina, the former business executive, rocketing to the top tier of the Republican presidential race. She has 15 percent support, up from 3 percent weeks earlier. Meantime, the previously unassailable front-runner, Donald Trump, is suddenly hemorrhaging support, falling to 24 percent from 32 percent, while Ben Carson has dropped to 14 percent from 19 percent.

Then there's Scott Walker, who just two months ago was the front-runner in Iowa, then saw his support vanish. He has now dropped out.

This dizzying reshuffle of the Republican deck, if confirmed in other polling, can mean only one thing: GOP primary voters have returned to their preferred method of candidate selection: the flavor of the week. By this process, they flirt with every possible alternative before finally holding their noses and settling on the most obvious, if uninspiring, consensus choice.

In 2008 they sampled Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney before settling for John McCain. In 2012 there were five front-runners — Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Cain, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum — before voters settled on Romney. If past is prologue, voters will have several more flings over the next few months before settling for someone such as Jeb Bush, who thrills nobody.

One explanation is that the Republican electorate is awfully fickle. A better explanation is that voters aren't paying that much attention to the race, and the constant rise and fall of front-runners is little more than a media creation....

[re_nortex]

The effete Dana Milbank is an extreme leftist who mocked Vice President Dick Cheney a few years back with a horrendous personal attack. And, of course, the Washington Compost is the house organ for the CPUSA. Yet even that moron and his leftist fishwrap did get it right about the big government statist and vile abortionist, Carly FioRINO.

[PhilDragoo]

When voters learn of Fiorina's close work with Hayden they may realize she's the executive Edward Snowden warned us about. The CEO and the CIA: How Carly Fiorina managed and advised the ‘poobahs’ at Langley.

[Gaffer]

Ain’t no tellin for anyone’s choice, really. My wife said to me the other day that she wouldn’t vote for iCarly because of her “lone wolf” performance in leaving the stage at the CNN debate. It really pissed her off.

[Sacajaweau]

I just watched a huge curtain fall on Fiorina....

Johnny Carson Style...The question: How does God keep Fiorina from shooting off her big mouth?

[ballplayer]

You mean the Republican establishment is giving up on Bush,now it’s Fiorina or the Pretty fem boy Rubio,both Rino frauds

[SunkenCiv]

Well of course — they created a straw(wo)man candidate for all practical purposes, but then she made her ill-considered hyperbolic statement about the Planned Parenthood expose’ videos, which is something for which they can’t give her a pass (not because it was false per se, but because she’s pro-life). After she drops out of the race because she hasn’t got any real base of support, the entire Republican field and party will be excoriated for being anti-woman. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

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