Posted on 10/03/2013 6:41:23 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO Northern California Republican who ran as a conservative to get the Republican Senate nomination in 2010, attacked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday, saying there was "no honor" in his fight to defund Obamacare.
Fiorina made her remarks just days after she joined the American Conservative Union, an establishment organization on the right that supports comprehensive immigration reform.
In an appearance on CNN's The Lead, Fiorina blamed the government shutdown on Cruz and implied that Republicans would have been better off waiving the white flag from the beginning on eliminating Obamacare.
"There's no honor in charging a hill that you know you can't take, only casualties, although Ted Cruz maybe got name recognition and money along the way," she said. "But President Obama wanted this shutdown. And Ted Cruz played right into his hands."
Fiorina said she felt "badly for [House Speaker] John Boehner" and emphasized that "this is Ted Cruz and President Obama's shutdown."
"Everybody could see this train wreck coming," Fiorina said.
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marco rubio... it happens.
She did wreck HP and those that had to clean up after her hate her.
See post #28
You just provided reason 2 for not fighting Obamacare and letting it implode on the Dems. Reason 1 is the fight allows Obama to close the gov and blame the chaos on the GOP via MSM ally. When the GOP realize the political cost of the move, the RINOs and establishment will use it to blame Cruz who started this thus depriving the conservatives and Tea Party a leader. Cruz wonders why the Dems are personal in their attacks on GOP and interpret it as Dems are scared and losing. IMHO the Dems are not scare but egging the GOP on into the political trap. Mark my words the move to close gov was a PR trap for the GOP and when the Dems are done, the GOP will be forced to pass CR and debt ceiling with no concessions for the Dems. It will be a total victory for the Dems and the MSM will harp on the GOP from here till elections of 2014. The GOP establishment and RINOs will use the defeat to hammer the Tea Party and conservatives. That is my 2 cents.
She’s an idiot RINO.
Carly Fiorina - Just another traitor to conservatives everywhere!
Doesn’t one have to have honor first to recognize it in others?
This woman is nothing. She flopped at HP, flopped as a candidate and is just one big dud. And who the hell is she to say what is “honorable” or isn’t?
She campaigned as a "cancer survivor." That's why she's saying this.
-PJ
Look, you're for the "Truth" right?
So why do you mention Palin's small number of bad endorsements but you don't mention her much larger number of good endorsements?
This is a thread about Cruz and Fiorina, both who were endorsed by Palin. Yet we have a few posters singling out the Fiorina endorsement and making no mention of the Cruz endorsement.
A "Truth" crusader such as yourself I would think wouldn't do that.
Who is Carly Fiorina? Oh yeah...the woman who ran Hewlett-Packard into the ground. Who cares what she thinks about ANYTHING?
I received the "bravo" award for being their first customer to implement their then new-at-the-time HP Storage Array, The HP/XP-512 on every major computing platform (Novell, Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HPUX and IBM Mainframe) using a Storage Area Network. SAN's at that time were the new "hot" technology that everyone was interested in.
The "award" ceremony and dinner was in Chicago at the Hyatt Regency. Bravo award winners were supposed to have their pictures taken with Carly Fiorina.
I refused to have my picture taken with her.
Boy that that piss off my sale rep, but I frankly didn't care. He bitched about how she was ruining the company more than I did.
She joins La Raza traitor and ACU Chair Al Cardenas, Sharia Law apologist and amnesty traitor Grover Norquist, and Muslim Brotherhood agent Suhail Khan on the ACU board.
Democrats - no honor in the fight to pass Obamacare.
“There’s no honor in charging a hill that you know you can’t take, only casualties, although Ted Cruz maybe got name recognition and money along the way,” she said. “But President Obama wanted this shutdown. And Ted Cruz played right into his hands.”
I’m in partial agreement with Fiorina, in that I do believe that part of Cruz’s moment was to establish himself for 2016. That’s not to say his stand was unprincipled - far from it. I absolutely believe Cruz sees Obamacare as a disaster and is genuine about wanting to kill it. I’m just saying politicians will be politicians, and Cruz surely was also sending a message to other Republican hopefuls for 2016.
As far as not being able to take the hill and/or playing into Obama’s hands, the final chapter hasn’t been written here. I’d say the worst fallout is folks like McCain and Fiorina breaking Reagan’s 11th Commandment. Airing the “dirty laundry” of a split is absolutely playing into Obama’s hands.
Now, I don’t deny the GOP has its work cut out for it, but the Democrats haven’t handled the issue well, either. From closing the WW2 Memorial to Reid’s comments to forbidding the Quantico chaplains from ministering on Sunday, there has to be some backlash building. Add in the apparent disaster of the Obamacare exchanges, and Republicans have some good material to work with. Gains can be made here, if the party plays it smart and stops shredding each other in public.
Go take your bitter advice and try to peddle it to someone dumb enough to care.
That’s why she’s on CNN.
Words of wisdom from the sorry *itch that DESTROYED Hewlett Packard.
To quote another Carly.... “You’re so vain... You probably think this song is about you...”
Because she was dumb enough to endorse someone she didn’t even know. That’s one of Palin’s problems, she doesn’t know when to put up and when to shut up.
I disagree, I think he will learn what some of the limits will be when taking on the Dems and the MSM. 1995 gov shutdown should be a lesson for the GOP because the MSM played a key role in neutralizing the GOP expansion of power. The current MSM influence may be reduced by FOX, talk radio and internet, but the liberals countered with social networking, pop culture and control of education. MSM is still a potent force to cover for the Dem failures.
I think he’s already unstoppable!
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