Carly the MSM.Uni-party's fav!
Posted on 09/30/2015 6:51:26 AM PDT by jimbo123
Carly Fiorina is surprising many Republicans with her meteoric rise to the top tier of the 2016 GOP race. But here in California, her sparkling performances on the campaign trail look more like a case of déjà vu.
Before plummeting to a 10-percentage-point loss during a wave year for Republicans in 2010, the former chief executive mounted a fierce challenge to U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer with all of the same assets she is displaying now.
She dazzled voters, particularly women, with her secretary-to-CEO life narrative. She impressed them with her toughness -- from her well-placed jabs at Boxer to her own gutsy story as a breast cancer survivor. She demonstrated a brilliant ability to synthesize complex issues into sound bites, even if critics often took issue with the way she framed the facts.
But the 2010 race offered a window into something else: the ease of constructing a brutal and relentless takedown of the one-time Hewlett-Packard chief executive that could well be repeated in the presidential cycle. The anti-Fiorina playbook in California packed a powerful one-two punch: pairing the stories of dismissed H-P workers with details of her compensation package and luxurious CEO "perks" -- from private jets to yachts -- defining her as the face of corporate greed.
The attacks were particularly potent, because opponents used Fiorina's own words against her, plucking damaging quotes from the vast trove of video that comprises her business career.
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She called us here in California last night when we were already in bed. Her auto message was not appreciated at that late hour. Just for that alone, she is NOT getting our vote.
After observing her meteoric crash in CA, one wonders what drives her to try this stunt on a national level.
I’m getting barraged with messages from her campaign asking for $3.
Yes, what sane republican would support a flip-flopping millionaire with a history of business failures, kind comments about Democrats and marital infidelity?
Her “meteoric rise” is nothing more than the establishment pushing her as an alternative to the Donald. They hate Trump.
FioRINO was fired by the McCain campaign in 2008 for being such a dolt.
Yet the GOPe still ran her as their Designated Loser in California in 2010.
She couldn’t ask you for 6.66 since it be too obvious.
I get that Fiorina is largely despised here in FR, but let's remember... this was California. The "meltdown" in that state happened many years ago when the demographics shifted, putting it permanently on the democrat plantation. There was NO chance she was going to beat a hardline lefty like Boxer. The fact that loss was only by a 10-point margin is reflective of the fact 2010 was indeed a GOP wave year.
You would be wrong! She was bad then and she is bad now.
She has a bad reputation in Silicon Valley. Conservatives in this area remember her at HP. She had to be the most hated exec of a company I’ve ever heard of.
Steve Jobs had a bad rep, but people acknowledged his briiiance.
Carly was just bad news!
HOW she lost is relevant. She lost because a huge number of people believe her record at HP means she doesn’t care about them - and yes, many folks in the US vote on that basis. Romney was a vastly superior businessman, with a great record in business, but he was hurt by his image - which was defined by the media.
I’m not a Trump fan, but his image is not defined by the media. Folks have seen him on TV for decades. He is obnoxious, but he is not cold. Carly comes across as cold, and her image WILL be defined by the media.
FWIW, I plan to vote for Cruz. If Carly won the nomination, I’d vote for her in the general. Same with Trump.
Make that contention all you want, and many would agree with you... but the subject centers on that 2010 campaign. No Repub was going to win a statewide election in CA, nor will one win ever again... not so long as CA remains a single-state entity. It is permanently a fixture on the democrat plantation.
No.. it's a little more basic than that.
She and Meg Whitman lost their respective races because California's huge majority is democrat voters. Her record at HP was an afterthought; that campaign was a referendum on Boxer, and Cali voters had no intention to switching.
Exactly! I remember when she was made CEO of HP. Hubby was furious! Those in the tech industry at the time were shaking their heads over her acquisition of Compaq. They knew it was a losing deal!
Fiorina is not someone that is capable of running our nation!
Perhaps, but that wasn't why she lost her election.
Ego and money. The gig pays pretty well.
No Republican went out of their way to vote for either woman. Don't forget, this is the same liberal state that did manage to vote FOR Prop 8 (keeping the definition of marriage between one man and one woman) in 2008.
While true, that was an aberration -- the huge numbers that turned out for Obama were based largely on hispanics and blacks there, and they (at the time) opposed homosexual marriage. That wouldn't be the case today.. by a long shot.
According to the Public Policy Institute of California, that state's political demographic is D+15. No GOPer will win there.
Ooh Ooh, let me guess without looking who you’re vehement against! I know, Mitt Romney, right?
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