Posted on 11/03/2010 11:15:35 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Saying "the outcome is clear," GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina conceded defeat this morning to Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.
Addressing reporters, Fiorina said she had called Boxer to express her congratulations. And she said it was time for Democrats and Republicans to set aside partisanship.
"I hope all will come together," she said, adding that members of Congress should "redouble their efforts to make sure that all people have a chance to live the American Dream.
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A good lesson for the rest of the Country.
She ran her campaign about as well as she ran Lucent and HP.
The offshoring thing really killed her with the voters.
Here is the truth folks:
Both Carly and Meg ran really outstanding campaigns, touched on all of the right notes, and had plenty of money to get their message out on TV and radio.
They really did run EXCELLENT campaigns, But CA is totally hopeless and mindless straight ticket voting drones make up a majority of the voters.
Whitman and Fiorina also performed a valuable service forcing the Dems to commit vast resources to defend safe territory. So my hat is off to Fiorina and Whitman! God bless you both!
with boxer at an all time low in approval this should have been a hands down win. the only thing I can say is wow. I am depressed, with gov moon beam and boxer.
look for being bankrupted with new taxes and business as usual
blame away. don't give a darn. fiorina campaigned as a conservative. would have a legislated as a liberal. again, can't stand her. glad she lost. there. i said it. and i'm sticking to it. don't give a darn who you blame.
> i’m glad the wench lost. can’t stand her.
You like Barbara “Call me senator” Botox better?
maybe her input will be minimal since the repubicans have had a lot of wins in other places, we can only hope.
“addressing reporters, Fiorina said she had called Boxer to express her congratulations. And she said it was time for Democrats and Republicans to set aside partisanship.”
There is that phrase again that makes me cringe. If the republicans no what is best for them then they will eliminate that phrase from there vocabulary. We are not interested in mixing in leftest ideas.
Kinda like how she ran HP and Lucent. Californian's for the most part love their big government. California politics is decided in the metro areas. If you live in the rural areas, your best bet is to get the hell out and move.
Sure don't sound like one to me. And since you are in DC, keep your nose out of California business dude and I won't have to poke it again. If you want more insults, keep up the insulting behavior.
Sure don't sound like one to me. And since you are in DC, keep your nose out of California business dude and I won't have to poke it again. If you want more insults, keep up the insulting behavior.
i'm not a "dude", and who are you to tell me what to stay out of? and i don't care what i don't sound like to you. this is a free speech forum. i don't post a lot, but when i do, i don't say anything that's out of line or distasteful. let the moderators be the judge of that.
No, Thomas Wolfe. His character was lamenting the phony pretensions of the theater going set. They would dismiss the play itself as boring, but carry on about the sets. His comment on this was, "Has anyone heard such ineffable twaddle since time began?"
Come together my arse! These idiots need bipartisanship now because they lost their power. Had they not gotten so trounced, it would be business as usual, Republicans sitting in the back of the bus. Screw every last one of them. The Republicans better get to work immediately and start disassembling this monstrous government or the same thing will happen to them in 2 years.
On another note, any chance that there are dems who might see they are on the wrong side and switch party?
You’re obviously against free speech and obviously a RINO lover. Might as well be a democrat.
Oh and I am in CA and have my nose all up in its business.
Fiorina and Whitman were clueless. I’m in their own party and I didn’t even want to vote for them.
Did either of them mention gun control once?
Did either of them mention the health care bill once?
Did either of them mention the dynamics of California, how the Legislature there has been run by Democrats for the last fifty years?
Did one of them promise to get tough on illegal immigration actually addressing using the National Guard on the border? Well yes, and then when she was nominated she met with Spanish only groups explaining how she didn’t like California props like 187, or Arizona’s most recent bill to address illegal immigration.
Did either of these women address that California was the 5th economic power in the world in 2000, and today it’s eighth?
I can’t fathom how you can spend between $145 and $160 million and miss so much of Jerry Brown’s record, but Whitman did.
Both these women slung mud, but it was mud that was sterilized. It wasn’t the dirty globs of stuff that would destroy the opposition of the caliber the opposition uses on Republicans.
I found myself countless times watching these two women air campaign spots thinking they were sadly misguided.
Firoina aired some spots that showed her face up close. When she talked her mouth screwed up. It just wasn’t a flattering view of her. Who coached this woman? Whitman did the same thing. Here’s my face up close. Hell, I didn’t want to see that face at a distance. Neither of these women are attractive. I don’t generally care, but there’s some things you just don’t do if you’re a below average looking person. Using the last lense before a fish-eye just doesn’t cut it.
There are ways of going negative that sound factual, and there are ways of going negative that just sound juvenile, not effective at all.
Then you get to the realization that neither of these women found anything wrong with McCain, that would prevent them from hitching their wagon to him.
I saw Fiorina as another potential sock puppet for McCain to manipulate in the Senate.
In 2012, I hope we pick some folks who actually did have some connections to actual Conservatism before they decided to run for office.
Evidently picking someone who hasn’t even bothered to vote in the last 28 years just didn’t appeal to people. And another person who sent 30,000 jobs overseas didn’t either.
Go figure.
Those two women were non-starters. We tried to tell all the brilliant voters that nominated them.
Well, here we are...
Will anyone listen in 2012? I doubt it. They’ll just continue to nominate flashy losers and blame everyone but themselves when the stuff hits the fan.
I don’t know one Conservative that hasn’t voted for the last 28 years. Does anyone on the forum?
My biggest disappointment is that we waited two years for this, thinking the public would agree with us. This was our big shot. It reminds me of 1966, not 1994. The public rebuked Johnson that year, but the Democrats went on like nothing happened.
I wasn't knocking Fiorina. She did as well as she could. I was trying to show these Rino types how they appear to us when they scream and stomp and insist we support their candidates, but then they betray ours and come on here with I told you so’s afterward. Here is a chance for us to say I told you so, but we don't. I am actually sad that Fiorina lost.
Good bye CaIifornia........ Pray for earthquakes, it’s your onIy hope.
WTF?
Boxer is one of the worst people in DC?
Head over to DU if you really believe that!
Using obama’s analogy of the “bus in the ditch”, CA voters are essentially putting the driver back into the driver’s seat after he drives the bus off of the road multiple times.
They deserve whatever they get. Screw em.
Actually, I think Fiorina would have made a good Senator. Maybe not so conservative as most here would want, but we need more non-lawyers in both chambers. Business people understand the bottom line and how operating in the red isn’t such a good thing.
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