[OrioleFan]

Might as well run for Governor. Bwaney Fwank wants to cap all CEO pay.

[KoRn]

From what I hear, she’s a RINO, but sadly only a RINO could win in CA for Republicans.

[Bonaparte]

"The party, which has grown more conservative in recent years..."

Conservative? Sure could have fooled me.

[JRandomFreeper]

Maybe she can do for California what Carly did for HP.

/johnny

[americanophile]

Attila the Hun could run for governor in Cali and it wouldn't matter...not with the intransigent and permanent socialist legislature in place in Sacramento. California has a relatively weak governorship and its mandatory spending provisions adopted through years of union-managed sweetheart deals and the deeply flawed initiative process that has made it an ungovernable morass of competing Democratic interest groups (public employee unions, illegal aliens, etc.,) with a $42 billion budget deficit and some of the highest taxes in the nation. No one should want this thankless, miserable, and ultimately powerless job. The leftists have killed the Golden State.

[easternsky]

Why would she hook up with that loser Pete Wilson??/ Oh Well were had anyway.

[truthguy]

I’m willing to give her a shot if there isn’t a better Republican candidate. She obviously has a lot of smarts. I know she’s got at least 40 IQ points on Arnold. She is also wealthier. At this stage she may be the best we can do. I’d like Tom McClintock but I don’t know if he will run. We could do a lot worse than Whitman.

[PGalt]

Interesting. Thanks for posting.

[dr_who]

McClintock’s no longer interested?

[Tempest]

This should make for a good fight

[SunkenCiv]

Meg Whitman officially launched her bid to seek the Republican nomination for California governor on Monday... The 52-year-old political neophyte... served as finance chairwoman for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign and then as a national co-chair of John McCain's... will face Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, another wealthy former Silicon Valley executive, and former Rep. Tom Campbell, in the Republican primary in June 2010... Republicans accounted for 31.4 percent of registered voters last November, a slide of more than 3 percentage points since the 2004 elections. The party, which has grown more conservative in recent years as California voters have become more centrist, has been shedding voters for more than a decade as the ranks of independents in California has grown.

Horse-pucky. California hasn't grown more "independent" or "centrist" -- it's moving to the right, but the left is growing ever more leftist. IOW, they're about eight or ten years behind the country.

[DoughtyOne]

Meg Whitman, Republican (She Thinks) For Governor?

Posted by: SB Insider | 03/24/2008 10:33 AM

So after having read the LA Times article today, its time somebody addresses the obvious problems with Meg Whitman, rumored REPUBLICAN candidate for Governor in 2010.

Who are the "donors" Whitman speaks of?

In short, the people in Meg Whitmans ear, pumping her up and telling her she would be a great candidate, all have ulterior motives that do not include actually putting forth a Republican that can win in 2010. They have bamboozled Ms Whitman and they are trying to bamboozle California Republicans.

Fortunetaly, or in Whitmans case, unfortunately, todays LA Times article exposes the fraud that is a potential Whitman REPUBLICAN candidacy.
            
As told in the article, from Megs own mouth.

She hasn't even been a registered Republican until a few months ago, when she switched from decline to state to Republican so that she could vote in the February Republican primary. She admits to not really knowing about being a Republican. Geez, that sure is reassuring. As an aside, her voting record suggests that she hasn't voted in the 5 elections previous to the February primary. That's not very encouraging.

When talking about issues that all Republicans take very seriously, she can't come up with ANY answer?

She has no position on illegal immigration, nationally or here in California? How could that be? Didn't Mccain's campaign give her basic talking points at the very least? She says she hasn't looked into the issue enough to have a comment?

She waffles on taxes, generally supporting the idea that taxes as a last resort is acceptable? I don't see a no tax pledge from her anytime soon.

She "probably" thinks that the war in Iraq is a good thing as part of the greater war on terror? I can assure Ms Whitman that it wasn't "probably" a good thing, it WAS a good thing.

Though she wasn't asked about her position on the Supreme Court hearings on the 2nd Amendment, the NRA slammed her last year for ordering Ebay to remove and ban sales of any firearms accessories from the Ebay listings, so I think its safe to say she doesn't support the 2nd Amendment rights we all hold.

An earlier LA Times article quoted Meg as saying she is "fascinated" with politics now. Well goody. Perhaps she can run as independent or a democrat since there are too many serious issues here in California for a novice to come in and use the Republican party as a hobby to play politics.

http://www.redcounty.com/sanbernardino/2008/03/meg-whitman-republican-she-thi/

[Gondring]

Can she pay for it via PayPal?

[Gondring]

   

  NBC11 forfeits 10 points for using "Bid" in headline.

[webschooner]

I’m sure Whitman can do for Kalifornia what she did for feebay — run it into the ground with Liberal policies.

Oh ... Ahnold and the Dims in KA have already done that, but no doubt they can dig the hole deeper.

[nonliberal]

She backed McCain and is therefore suspect.

[ponygirl]

California is a lost cause. It doesn’t matter who is governor, that place is infested with unions and liberal lobbyists. What they need is a gigantic can of RAID.