Posted on 09/17/2015 5:22:28 PM PDT by jimbo123
Carly Fiorina is the new "it" candidate in the Republican presidential field, following a second straight sterling debate performance at the Ronald Reagan presidential library Wednesday night.
But there was a moment in the debate that previewed a major potential weakness for Fiorina. It came when moderator Jake Tapper noted that Donald Trump had said Fiorina "ran HP into the ground" during her time as CEO. Fiorina responded, "I led Hewlett Packard through a very difficult time, the worst technology recession in 25 years," adding: "We had to make tough choices, and in doing so, we saved 80,000 jobs, went on to grow to 160,000 jobs."
Trump -- and Tapper -- largely let the issue drop. But Fiorina's past political history suggests that her struggles at HP could be a campaign killer.
In 2010, Fiorina was running surprisingly close to California Sen. Barbara Boxer (D), who was struggling in a strong election cycle for Republicans nationally. Then, Boxer ran this ad focused on Fiorina's time at the helm of HP.
The commercial notes that Fiorina laid off 30,000 workers at HP while feathering her own nest (the ad's narrator says she tripled her salary) and buying a "million-dollar yacht" and "five corporate jets." It went up on TV in the middle of September and effectively ended Fiorina's chances.
Look at this chart, via Real Clear Politics, documenting the polling averages for the entirety of the Boxer-Fiorina contest.
See how the red line starts dropping precipitously right around mid-September? That's not a coincidence. The ad functioned as a sort of knock-out punch for Boxer even in a year where Republicans claimed victories all across the country.
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Thanks for sharing... it’s hard to get the truth when democrats and their shills in the MSM work together... They’re all liars - Hillary on up - and down... the line.
Carly will sink herself.
“There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore.”
Yep, keep lying to Congress that there aren’t enough out of work/underemployed tech sector workers and keep bringing in low cost visa workers or smuggle the million dollar software goods in on the internet and don’t pay any import duty on it.
Mark Levin remarked that he endorsed Devore for Senator over Fiorino in the CA Repub primary.
Oh, it’s “Himself” now is it? Capital H and all....so he is godlike to his disciples...good grief.
By the way, Fiorina isn’t my choice, but that doesn’t change the fact that she whipped him silly in the debate.
Geez, don't hold back, Mr. Rabbit.
Tell us what you REALLY think. :)
Looking forward to that actually happening. If you're speaking of FioRINO, try again. She has NO IDEA what she's talking about.
But he’s a policy lightweight.
I'm not as worried about Trump's ability to learn/brush up on policy as I am about a career politician or paid speaker trying to learn how to negotiate with the likes of Iran, Putin or Congress.
Which one of these candidates have ever had to put their name on the bottom line and sign the FRONT of the checks? (Not Carly, she had CFOs/Controllers to do that for her.)
We've seen what these career politicos have done to the country (given 0blama everything he's asked for, NO border security, NO PP defunding, Sanctuary cities, deficits, etc) and what paid speaker Carly has done to destroy TWO companies.
No thanks.
But all in all, I am with Christie on this. Its a silly argument now and has always been a silly leftist argument whether it is against Bain Capital, Ross Perot or anyone else who is successful in our capitalist society .
Just asking.
A proud disciple of Hagel circa 2001, this is the last person we need to lead us.
Now her favorite mode of operation is gender politics.
This woman is an idiot.
Is she better than Cruz?
Tell this person to sit down and STFU.
She has no accomplishments whatsoever.
Lucent was doomed the very instant they named themselves after Lucifer. (and the crappy logo didn't help)
Tom Luce? Who ran for TX gov? You calling him Satan?
Well Carly didn’t mind taking a job at Lucifer’s company.
I'm reading a series now that dispenses voluminous 18th century Scots & English dialect and usage.
"Himself" usually referred to a laird, or suchlike. I'm pretty talented and competent, but I think Trump has got me in a few areas of achievement.
BTW - us Highlanders consider the Norse to be candy-arsed sissies.
Bend the knee to the MacLeod, Norseboy, an he might na take your heid.
Well said.
>>She sure got her NWO trasnational elite card punched.
Amen to that. I sussed that she would be another globalist oligarch sock puppet who would parlay her anti-russky knee jerk into WWIII and a feudal warlord debt banker fascist dark age.
Bastard. Are you trying to make me blow wine through my nose?
I am an agnostic, but even I shivered when I saw the name Lucent?!
Brrrrr
Even the NYT say he “Kelo” lady was a. Fool. She could have gotten almost $2 million from Trump. Idiot woman. Please, someone, offer me $2 million for my house!
Yeah, they are out in droves tonight.
Droves for Rove.
She’s definitely been recruited to do just that. I bet you’d find some Lois Lerner ties if you poked around. Hillary ties, too, and Jarrett if you dig enough.
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