Posted on 09/19/2015 6:25:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
It's easy to see why many Republican voters are newly taken with Carly Fiorina. She is a superb debater, with a steely gaze, a flawless delivery and a mastery of talking points. She knows what she wants to say and how to command attention. She exudes a bulletproof aura that inspires confidence.
There are only two problems with Fiorina: what she has done in the past, and what she promises for the future. An inspection of those is a reminder of where she got started: in sales. She may offer an irresistible pitch. But creating a good product? That demands a skill set she isn't known to possess.
During her time as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, its stock plunged 52 percent -- double the drop in the Nasdaq average, and worse than her competition, including Dell, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft. The company repeatedly whiffed on her financial targets. In the end, Fiorina got cashiered. More telling, perhaps, is that in the decade since, no corporation has hired her.
This picture contrasts starkly with her 1999 arrival at Hewlett-Packard, where, according to The Wall Street Journal, "she was greeted as nothing less than a savior." When she was fired, the Journal noted that Fiorina "had a flair for marketing and public speaking" and "a compelling public persona" but "was a highly polarizing figure who stirred deep animosity among many veteran employees."
Her big decision was acquiring rival Compaq, a move that became to her what the Iraq war was to George W. Bush: a dismal failure from which she apparently learned nothing.
"This was a big bet that didn't pay off, that didn't even come close to attaining what Fiorina and HP's board said was in store," concluded Fortune's Carol J. Loomis shortly before Fiorina was fired. Yet Fiorina pretends it was a triumph.
That's not the only sign that she talks a much better game than she plays. She got an ovation for rejecting Donald Trump's attempt to explain away his disparagement of her looks: "I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr. Trump said."
You might forget that when she ran for the U.S. Senate in California in 2010 against incumbent Barbara Boxer, she was caught on video belittling her opponent in Trump-like fashion: "God, what is that hair? So yesterday!"
In Wednesday's debate, Fiorina was equally facile, and equally misleading, on more substantive topics. Asked how to handle Vladimir Putin, she replied, "What I would do, immediately, is begin rebuilding the 6th Fleet. I would begin rebuilding the missile defense program in Poland. I would conduct regular, aggressive military exercises in the Baltic states. I'd probably send a few thousand more troops into Germany. Vladimir Putin would get the message."
It was the sort of litany that thrills conservatives, but as policy, it was the second day of a garage sale -- replete with items that are useless, superfluous or irrelevant. The U.S. Navy is the biggest and most capable on Earth. We spend eight times more on defense than Russia -- without counting what our NATO allies spend. If all that doesn't intimidate Putin, a slightly augmented Sixth Fleet isn't going to make his blood run cold.
Neither is "a few thousand more troops" in Germany. Putting bases and GIs in Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania might deter aggression against them -- but oddly, she didn't suggest it.
Barack Obama canceled a missile defense program in Poland because it didn't work. He replaced it with a system that Robert Gates, his defense secretary (and George W. Bush's), believed was better. Obama has also conducted military exercises in the Baltic states. Putin would get the message, all right: that Fiorina is a fraud.
She wowed the crowd by daring Obama and Hillary Clinton to watch the video from a Planned Parenthood abortion of "a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking, while someone says we have to keep it alive to harvest its brain."
The nonpartisan FactCheck.org noted an inconvenient fact: "The scene she described, though, does not exist in any of the videos" released by the Center for Medical Progress. Other fact checkers agreed, and her campaign offered no footage to rebut them.
That's Fiorina in a nutshell. What was obvious to anyone who watched the debate is what Businessweek noted when she took over HP: "Carly Fiorina has a silver tongue and an iron will." The rest, however, is fool's gold.
“Secretariat out to pasture soon.”
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Today Show [NBC] (USA) (Published as Today Show [NBC]) - May 5, 2015
EXCERPT
HODA KOTB: All right. If you— first chick flick you’ll show at the White House when you’ve all your friends there?
CARLY FIORINA: Chick flick? Well see my favorite movie I have to say is Secretariat. And it’s about a woman, I’m not sure it’s a chick flick, but it’s about a woman who really exceeds expectations.
wiki:
Secretariat (film)
In 1969, Denver housewife and mother Penny Chenery (Diane Lane) agrees to take over her ailing father, Christopher Chenery’s Meadow Stables in Doswell, Virginia, despite her lack of horse-racing knowledge. With the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin (Malkovich), Chenery navigates the male-dominated business, ultimately fostering the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years and one of the greatest racehorses of all time.
She’s the female version of Mitt “don’t call me a used car salesman” Romney.
It really is unfair to bash Fiorina for the Compac aquisition because this decision was made by the HP Board before she was hired . In fact, she was hired specificly to execute that strategy. She was also hired with a mandate to shake up the entrenched HP corporate culture.
The problem with Fiorina is her personality. She has a very autocratic and polarizing management style which limits the tool set she has to work with as a CEO
Which is why I call her SHRILLARY Fiorina.
Now, this "nonpartisan" FactCheck.org wouldn't happen to be the outfit funded by the same "nonpartisan" Annenburg Foundation that launched Obama in the 90s, would it? Nahhhhh...
It is so refreshing to read such good writing.
...he opened the door for her with the face comment.
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He sure did. Makes me wonder....
Maybe she should change that name to “oldgraymare”
There could possibly be one on Ivanka Trump. Nobody would probably want to see it anyway.
Thanks for that link.
Imo that clip (in entifetyl needs a thread of its own.
He should be a repeated guest on FOX. WE must watch a second rate channel to get the truth. Geeze
He certainly has her number. No mention of Lucent. Still would like to see what they have on cooked books. Did she get caught with hand in cookie jar? Allowed to leave without charges so no federal investigators would be called in? Enron tried that iirc initially
View link at 38. You will understand why Trump mentioned his name and why the horse tried to negate his influence by suggesting he was with Clinton camp (He has never been)
Great work Maggie
http://fortune.com/2010/10/15/carly-fiorinas-troubling-telecom-past/
Carly Fiorina’s troubling telecom past
by Scott Woolley
OCTOBER 15, 2010
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Speaking of “demon sheep” ... Check out this Carly for California ad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo_Ejfc5hW8
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/02/04/carly-fiorinas-demon-sheep.html
The man behind the Web video is none other than Fred Davis, the Republican ad guru who cooked up John McCain’s legendary “Celebrity” ad that juxtaposed Barack Obama with images of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in 2008.
Great catch, as usual, maggie!
Rich, coming from the the one who you’ve already pointed out as being the “well-known Clintonite”...FioRINO.
I wonder what Carly’s speaking fees were for speaking at The Clinton Foundation.
She may not know it yet but she is...
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-fiorina-clinton-ties-20150611-story.html
Fiorina’s campaign-trail attacks leave out her own ties to Clinton
June 11, 2015
One Fiorina charitable effort, a campaign to fund women’s empowerment projects around the globe, went forward with help from the State Department when Clinton was secretary.
And Fiorina has roles in two charities that participated in projects that became commitments with the Clinton Global Initiative, one of the organizations in the Clintons’ worldwide philanthropic network in which charities and companies announce partnerships to pledge action on social projects.
She has also twice participated in Clinton Global Initiative events. In 2013, she spoke on a small panel that discussed how to boost female entrepreneurship. Last year, she appeared with former President Clinton and three other people on a televised panel discussion on how best to pull people out of poverty.
https://www.clintonfoundation.org/clinton-global-initiative/meetings/cgi-america/2014/report
NBC'S MEET THE PRESS WITH DAVID GREGORY: Following a one-on-one conversation with President Clinton and host David Gregory, they are joined by Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO of Carly Fiorina Enterprises and chairman of Good360; Sara Horowitz, founder and executive director of the Freelancers Union; Monty Moran, co-chief executive officer of Chipotle Mexican Grill; and Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation to continue the discussion on why reducing poverty and increasing upward mobility is not just a philanthropic endeavor, but a business imperative.
http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Fiorina-failed-to-register-business-foundation-3293194.php
Fiorina failed to register business, foundation
July 10, 2009
Contacted Thursday by The Chronicle, Fiorina’s office confirmed that neither her charitable foundation nor Fiorina Enterprises has been registered with state or federal authorities. A spokeswoman said Fiorina and her staff believe the foundation is not required to file with the IRS because it accepts no outside contributions and donates only her personal wealth to worthy causes.
Fiorina Enterprises is a nonprofit enterprise that helps Fiorina structure speaking engagements and appearances while providing the public with information about her activities, the spokeswoman said. If an oversight involving either organization is found, Fiorina would correct it, the spokeswoman said.
http://www.thedomains.com/2015/05/05/carly-didnt-fail-to-secure-carlyfiorina-org-she-let-it-drop/
Carly Didn’t Fail To Secure CarlyFiorina.org; She let it drop
MAY 5, 2015
You make it sound as though Fiorina is a liberal political wolf in a conservative political chicken coop. I tend to think there are past actions by her that need to be explained before she should get support of the so called middle class person. As to this consideration Trump being what he has been is still on higher ground for the middle class working persons.
In her first debate last night against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, Fiorina said, "I would support the DREAM Act because I do not believe that we can punish children who through no fault of their own are here trying to live the American dream."
I don't agree, but I understand her reasons.
Fiorina also said she does not support amnesty and said the federal government has "not done its job" securing the border. She also voiced her support for Arizona's controversial new immigration law, which makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally.
90% of statistics are made up, and the other 10% are false.
Carly would eviscerate Hillary in a debate, and lose in the process. Mean old know-it-all smacking around the poor befuddled Grandmother.
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