Posted on 05/28/2015 8:34:24 AM PDT by Hojczyk
Politics is a field dominated by those who excel at communicating, and Fiorina is proving herself a powerful and effective communicator. She does more than turn a nice phrase. (“Nothing makes me angrier than when people’s livelihoods are sacrificed on the altar of ideology.”) She packs more substance into fewer words than anyone else in the 2016 field.
With this ability, Fiorina is selling herself as a competent manager and bold leader. She charmingly calls the administrative apparatus in Washington a “vast, bloated, incompetent bureaucracy.” To fix it, she would implement zero-based budgeting and pay for performance; tackle fraud, waste and abuse; and eliminate jobs of federal employees who retire.
She would “reimagine” the way federal departments work, she said.
Try to divert her, though, and she skillfully dodges the detour. Every candidate prefers to avoid questions for which he is unprepared or with which he is uncomfortable. Fiorina does so more deftly than most.
Business executives who run for office tend to reveal quickly the gap between the skills needed to succeed in business and the skills needed to succeed in politics. Fiorina does not. She has learned from her mistakes as a surrogate for John McCain in 2008 and a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2010. Put her on a political debate stage, and she will shine.
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I like the way she follows Hillary around… looks like VP to me???
I wouldn’t vote for her for President but Carly, along with Ted Cruz, are running the best campaigns out there. Watching either masterfully handle the press is a joy to behold. It’s nice to see confident, intelligent Republicans running for a change.
Huckabee, Santorum, Christie, Bush, Kasich, Graham, Pataki ...
even if only to continue to most effectively slam Hillary.
GOPe RNC hype machine really has it turned on for iCarly.
I can see it now. 25 people milling around on the debate stage.
4 years ago it was a big enough zoo. Next year it will be worse.
agreed
I think Carly deserves a spot on the stage just because of her attack Hillary tour. She is great at it.
You’re not from California, are you, where she used to live before moving to DC to become a career politician.
So, who do you support that is not a “career Politian?”
I prefer Carly Fiorina to be on stage over ...
Huckabee, Santorum, Christie, Bush, Kasich, Graham, Pataki ...
even if only to continue to most effectively slam Hillary.
Agree.
Weird question.
I support Cruz, Walker.
Is iCarly number one for you?
Who is your number two?
I would not vote for her for president but she has really impressed me over the past couple of months as a candidate. She plays the media better than a lot of GOP candidates, including the ones I support. I’d let her debate. She has earned the right with her performance over the past couple months.
You used the term “career Politian” as a pejorative against Fiorina, does that apply to Cruz and Walker too?
Fiorina is an articulate weapon against the shrew Hillary and can get away with it.
For now, with me it is Cruz or Walker, we still have a long way to go and things are going to change.
I would if somehow ended up her vs Clinton, can't say the same about Jeb or the other rinos.
You know, when I wrote that I was planning to write “work for the RNC” rather than career politician.
In other words she went from being a business woman in California, to running for Senate in Californa (which made sense) to moving to DC to be an RNC hack.
A downward trajectory that doesn’t engender trust or confidence.
She should have stayed here and run again for Boxer’s open Senate seat rather than being the RNC safeguard/first line of defense against Bachman, Palin or another conservative female candidate.
I would pay cold cash to watch a debate between Carly and Hillary. Carly would absolutely destroy Hillary. That would be HUGE fun to watch.
I don’t see her as a hack. From what I’ve been hearing from her she sounds like a strong, very articulate conservative woman, exactly what the GOPer’s don’t want.
As for her running against the box of rocks, yeah I’d like to see that too, but Fiorina can decide for herself what is best for her, not you or I.
As for Bachman or Palin getting in, I’ve yet to see any signs of it, I personally don’t see it happening....but like I wrote in an earlier post, we’ve a long way to go and things are going to change.
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