Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid 353
Rambo Tribble writes Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina announced on Fox News Sunday that she stood a 'higher than 90 percent' chance of running as a presidential candidate in 2016. Fiorina's tenure at HP was marked by controversy over her leadership, and it is unclear what level of name recognition she enjoys. Her only previous political experience appears to be a failed U.S. Senate seat effort in 2010, as the Republican candidate challenging sitting Democrat Barbara Boxer, in California. Fiorina lost by 10%.
Oh goody (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe she can fire Congress and fill their positions with H1Bs. Not like they can do any worse.
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Maybe she can fire Congress and fill their positions with H1Bs. Not like they can do any worse.
Wait until the SCOTUS tells states that immigration enforcement is a federal matter, and that states therefore cannot prevent illegal immigrants from voting or holding elected office. That's basically your joke come true.
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While some elected office require citizenship, not all do, in case you are unaware.
However, voting requires citizenship at local, state, or federal level.
Which means that even if SCOTUS says that immigration enforcement is a Federal issue (it is, frankly), that won't result in any new voters until citizenship requirements are
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Have to start somewhere:DC Considers Allowing Non-Citizens to Vote [weeklystandard.com]
Re:Oh goody (Score:4, Informative)
The States though have some reasonable discretion at how they run their elections. While I find it difficult to think of a situation where a State might have more strict requirements for voting in its non-Federal election, there is precedent for a State allowing someone who can't vote in a federal election to vote in a state election. Prior to the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to 18, many States already allowed 18 year olds to vote in non-federal elections, and the Supreme Court upheld that Congress had the right to regulate the minimum age in federal elections, but not at the state and local level.
Now, whether that would extend to citizenship would be an interesting question, but there's certainly precedent for it in terms of both age and women being allowed to vote in state/local elections, when they could not do so in federal elections.
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Prior to the 26th Amendment lowering the voting age to 18, many States already allowed 18 year olds to vote in non-federal elections, and the Supreme Court upheld that Congress had the right to regulate the minimum age in federal elections, but not at the state and local level.
What's odd is that Congress would have been able to require 21+ to vote for a congressman, but not for president. The presidential elections are not federal elections. Congress could require the electors in the Electoral college be 25+ or whatever they like, but not the ages of the state voters selecting them, that's a local election, not a federal one.
Re:Oh goody (Score:5, Informative)
FTFY.
Voter fraud is a rounding error. You should try finding a more compelling bogeyman.
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http://www.irs.gov/uac/Four-Th... [irs.gov]
This is great! (Score:5, Funny)
She can follow up on her work at HP and merge the Democrat and Republican parties together. That should make things much more efficient, increase shareholder value and offer synergies to enhance international competition.
Re:This is great! (Score:5, Insightful)
I thought they'd already merged. They both do pretty much the same thing when they're in power.
Re:This is great! (Score:5, Funny)
They could never merge - they're as different as Coke and Pepsi.
Re:This is great! (Score:5, Funny)
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. . . you forgot the part about how she is going to lay off Americans . . . revoke their citizenship, and force them to leave the country, and try their luck elsewhere in the world.
She also ditched the old concept of "The HP Way". I'm guessing that she will change the "Pledge of Allegiance, to the Flag" to "With Freedom and Justice . . . for the Rich".
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What's a "Democrat Party"? Whig, Republican, Bull Moose, and Democratic are some major US political parties that come to mind but I don't recall a "Democrat Party" from the history textbooks.
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Re:This is great! (Score:4, Informative)
Nitpicking, or complete lack of imagination?
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"Democrat Party" is a slur, originally developed by Jesse Helms and later picked up and expanded upon by Karl Rove, intended to take away from Democrats - that is, members of the Democratic Party, the right to choose their own name.
As Theon can tell you having an entity that is attempting to obtain dominance over you impose a name not of your choosing is not a good thing. Members of the Democratic Party have been pretty vigilant about this since George W. Bush started doing it regularly. Hard right wing r
Re:This is great! (Score:4)
Yeah, Jack Kemp and Haley Barbour, flaming libruls both. Got it. Nice try though.
Re:This is great! (Score:4, Insightful)
Some of us got past the mentality of a 10 year old who still thinks their mother picks on them. You'll get there one day, champ.
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Nitpicking, or complete lack of imagination?
"Democrat Party" is what conservatives call it because the idea of a "democratic party" offends them. You don't hear too much mention of the "Republic Party".
So, nitpicking if you will. Refusal to accept a slur, if you won't.
Re:This is great! (Score:5, Insightful)
She can follow up on her work at HP and merge the Democrat and Republican parties together. That should make things much more efficient, increase shareholder value and offer synergies to enhance international competition.
Or she can sell off the US government's core technological assets and turn America into a hollow corporate brand name that creates almost nothing. Just like she did with HP when she sold off HP's advanced technology division as Agilent, and changed HP from a technological powerhouse into a brand-name for shitty computers and components.
Simplr math ... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Simplr math ... (Score:4, Insightful)
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depends on your definition of losing. I see you've chosen - if you don't try, you can't fail. Typical nerd tactic to not try anything out of their comfort zone.
I've had to do plenty of things outside my comfort zone. That's how we learn. A lot of those things I'm now comfortable with.
As for Carly Fiorina, as I said before, the only hope she has of not losing is to not run.
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I doubt that. She seems like less of a bitch than Hillary, is more media and business friendly in ways Hillary simply tries to put on a show about, and not too many people outside the tech world actually hate her.
Outside of her name sounding foreign, I would think she has just as much chance as any other woman running. I bet she would be picked as a vice president candidate too- if the primaries don't get too ugly.
Re:Simplr math ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Plenty of HP/Agilent/Keysight folks will happily get in front of the camera to tell war stories about how effective she was at steering a very good and well loved company into the rocks. It broke into pieces that still limp on with the scars and damage that her bad management caused. The country is littered with old HP campuses that have been abandoned after off shoring and consolidation, in large part due to activities on her watch.
Her appeal to the right is how effective she was at dehumanizing a culture that used to place great value on its people into 3 pieces that now tout "shareholder value" above valuing its people. Sadly the pieces are pretty un-special at even shareholder value these days. Bill and Dave have to be doing about 3600 rpm in their graves.
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Re:Simplr math ... (Score:4, Insightful)
And of course the irony is that their ideology never actually works, but it does turn them into valuable useful idiots.
The sincere ones among them want to cut things like crony-capitalism, regulatory capture and corporate welfare as well.
But that NEVER happens, instead by using their support for "small government" big business simply gets to have government plunder all the actual services it provides, and social safety netts and hand over the results to MORE crony capitalism.
I think the perfect example was Denver where the local government basically just took everybody's pensions because they "couldn't afford to pay them anymore" - but never cut a penny of their corporate welfare bill - which could have paid the pension liabilities ten times over !
Even their lord and saviour Ronald Reagan pulled of the scam perfectly. In theory the Laffer-curve based tax-cut concept is that you cut taxes for EVERYBODY, so EVERYBODY has more money, people spend it to buy things - and this means more business open (since there are customers to supply) so that means more jobs - and so even though you cut taxes very soon your revenues are higher than before. It ONLY works if you are AT the Laffer curve peak -any other time the tax cuts will simply mean less revenue, and the theory also demands that when you do it you cut ALL spending to the bone so you stay liquid until the increased revenue realizes, at which point you are supposed to end the austerity and use this higher revenue to fund bigger projects and MORE expansive social safety netts.
But you won't hear THAT from the politicians, they take a sound economic theory out of it's very narrow context and then apply it across the board - and what's worse, they only apply half of it. What DID Reagan do ?
He cut taxes only on the rich, then he increased spending - a LOT - especially on the military, and cut the social safety nett.
That's been the republican playbook ever since despite that fact that it never worked once in all that time. Well worked at what they said it would do - as a means of handing over poor and middle class folk's taxes to rich people it works brilliantly.
And the small government libertarians are the idiots who keep electing them because they promise to make government smaller and still haven't figured out the scam.
Re:Simplr math ... (Score:4, Informative)
You come off like misogynist assholes to regular people if you try.
Her gender has nothing to do with it: the mental obsession with outsourcing, offshoring, mergers and splits is what caused the problem. This is a non gender specific disease which has infected a large number of professional CEOs.
Re:Simplr math ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Palin, Bachman, Fiorina... she certainly fits the mould of the average republican female candidate: "I have a vagina and I'm not afraid to insert my head into the cavity right next to it !"
Now I understand her record at HP (Score:3)
when I see how she thinks she has any possibility to win, especially given her tenure at HP.
Re:Now I understand her record at HP (Score:5, Interesting)
Now, I remember rumors that when she was fired, engineers at HP spontaneously started singing, "Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead."
She was the most powerful business woman in the world for a while. And that's how people remember her. If she can build on that reputation, she has a chance.
I don't think she can build on that reputation, and I don't think she has a chance......but she does.
Re:Now I understand her record at HP (Score:5, Interesting)
That isn't a rumor. I was there, and yes, people did burst into song. I've never worked for a more hated CEO. She sure as Hell isn't getting my vote for anything.
- Necron69
Re:Now I understand her record at HP (Score:4, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C... [wikipedia.org]
Fiorina frequently has been ranked as one of the worst CEOs of all time.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/am... [cbsnews.com]
http://www.cnbc.com/id/3050209... [cnbc.com]
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com... [usatoday.com]
http://ca.complex.com/pop-cult... [complex.com]
Oh... and this....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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the anti-ILLEGALimmigrant candidate born in Canada
FTFY
Re:Now I understand her record at HP (Score:4, Informative)
1 Marco Rubio (experience: over ten years in congress, can win elections).
2 Scott Walker (experience: Governor, smashing unions and winning hard political fights)
3 Chris Christy (experience: Governor, reaches across the aisle, achieves Republican goals in a Democratic state).
The Jokers are:
1 Ted Cruz (no experience, he's a waffle, special gift of annoying people and destroying things).
2 Rand Paul (no experience, a big name to run on, but that name didn't win many presidential elections).
3 Carly Fiorina (doesn't know how to run a campaign)
4 Jeb Bush (Even his mom discouraged him from running)
5 Mike Huckabee (nice guy, evangelical.....that's the sum total of his platform).
6 Rick Perry (he's like Bush but with none of the brains).
7 Mark Everson (who would vote for a retired IRS commissioner?)
Re:Now I understand her record at HP (Score:5, Interesting)
As I see it, the serious candidates in the Republican party are (in no particular order): 1 Marco Rubio (experience: over ten years in congress, can win elections).
You're wrong about Rubio's having "over ten years in congress". Rubio did serve several terms in the Florida State House of Representatives, but he has never been a US Representative and is still a first term senator, having been elected in 2010. He's about as qualified as Obama was when Obama won the Presidency. He's probably unelectable thanks to some stupid moves he's made -- he voted against the Violence Against Women Act.
2 Scott Walker (experience: Governor, smashing unions and winning hard political fights)
George W. Bush used to say "I'm a uniter, not a divider." Scott Walker is his opposite, which leads me to think that he is not electable. Walker is still in his first term and he dropped out of college, which is a big negative (in my view). He was only one semester short of a degree, but he's never bothered to finish? Something's not quite right there.
3 Chris Christy (experience: Governor, reaches across the aisle, achieves Republican goals in a Democratic state).
Christy is a corrupt New Jersey politician. The question is whether or not that corruption will catch up to him before the election. I think it will.
IMHO, Republican primary voters appear incapable of recognizing competency. There are several good Republican Governors out there, but they're not on anybody's radar screen. The Governor of New Mexico is one -- she's in her second term, has apparently done a good job because she has very high public opinion poll ratings, and she happens to be a hispanic woman.... but few people outside of NM (and its neighboring states) have ever heard of her.
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He's probably unelectable thanks to some stupid moves he's made -- he voted against the Violence Against Women Act.
Walker is still in his first term and he dropped out of college, which is a big negative (in my view). He was only one semester short of a degree, but he's never bothered to finish? Something's not quite right there.
Christy is a corrupt New Jersey politician.
What makes you think these people are unelectable based on these factors? I think you're vastly overestimating the competence of Republic
Re:Now I understand her record at HP (Score:5, Funny)
My prediction is that we're going to have a Republican president elected in 2016, and it'll be Jeb Bush. He's going to run against Hillary Clinton.
Ironically, if that happens, we'll have democrat who voted to invade Iraq running against a Bush who didn't.
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He's probably unelectable thanks to some stupid moves he's made -- he voted against the Violence Against Women Act.
That won't matter.
Walker is still in his first term and he dropped out of college, which is a big negative
That won't matter.
There are several good Republican Governors out there, but they're not on anybody's radar screen. The Governor of New Mexico is one
She doesn't oppose medicinal marijuana, she doesn't oppose same-sex marriage, she does not want to repeal ACA.......essentially you like politicians who agree with your political opinions.
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Re:Now I understand her record at HP (Score:5, Insightful)
This is a CEO syndrome. You're surrounded all day by sycophants who claim you're the smartest, brightest, and wisest person they know. No matter what obscure VP you go to visit they all seem to recognize you on sight, so clearly you've got name and face recognition. All of your decisions are praised. Most of the time even the board of directors treat you like their best friend.
Re:Now I understand her record at HP (Score:5, Interesting)
Or, as someone snarked to me about one candidate or another recently, "He/she's running for a Commentator spot on Fox, not for President."
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She won big time,and yet HP lost
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Personally i like this part....
"The stock is up a bit on the fact that nobody liked Carly's leadership all that much," said Robert Cihra, an analyst with Fulcrum Global Partners. "The Street had lost all faith in her and the market's hope is that anyone will be better."
Never Forget Lucent (Score:3, Insightful)
Don't forget she killed Lucent which resulted in Bell Labs being sold off to the French in a fire sale. She's evil. She's definitely prepared for a career in politics.
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China has their checkbook ready!
Re: Never Forget Lucent (Score:2)
Echo chamber (Score:5, Insightful)
Money (Score:2)
Also people like to forget she basically won the California Gubernatorial race until an epic, almost legendary gaff during
Re:Money (Score:4, Informative)
Fiorina said she could appeal to voters with a “deep understanding of how the economy actually works, having started as a secretary and become the chief executive of the largest technology company in the world.”
If she's running on that "record", she's dead in the water.
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And that's not all. From her Wikipedia page:
And she wants to lead the Executive Branch?
Majority != Constitutional.
And she's got a bit of money. So .... what's she been doing with it AS A PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL to help with any of the "problems" that she's talk
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This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
Re:Money (Score:4)
If you're old enough to remember Regan he didn't have much to run on
I'm as ant-Reagan as they come, but I'm sorry, his two terms as governor of California look positively scholarly compared to the lack of experience from Fiorina.
almost on the California Gubernatorial race until an epic legendary gaff during a debate cost her the election.
Coulda woulda shoulda. But I seriously doubt this is true since she never ran for Governor.
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“If we want mainstream and the middle class going and growing again, we’ve got to get small and family-owned businesses going and growing again,” she said.
She has the experience - she made a large business into a much smaller business. It's like "how do you get a million dollars?" "start with 10 million."
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Yeah because the best places in the world are those with small governments like Haiti and Somalia, while the worst places in the world are those with large governments such as Germany, Sweden and Canada.
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They probably forget this because it's not true. Did you confuse her with Meg Whitman? In any case, both of them lost pretty badly, despite pouring mountains of their own money into their races.
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Your point is well taken, but then look at the other contenders in the Republican camp. If there's any group of people who can make Fiorina look good in comparison in must be Ted Cruz et al.
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Re:Echo chamber (Score:5, Informative)
She can't hear reality over the roar of the hundred million dollars she was paid for halving the shareholder value of HP. Clearly she isn't deluded; she just lives in an alternate reality from the rest of us.
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She can't hear reality over the roar of the hundred million dollars she was paid for halving the shareholder value of HP.
I hope she runs.
A Fool and Her Money Are Soon Parted....
Re:Echo chamber (Score:5, Interesting)
Take another look at Mitt Romney for a moment, in the sense that his corporate interests have been successful, by and large, for shareholders in the firms that his loyalties have been to. He could at least claim that his policies were beneficial for shareholders and for the company, but even with such claims he still lost an election. I expect that many of the stories of companies purchased and stripped by Romney's companies, promptly laying-off thousands of workers in the process.
If Romney couldn't win despite having arguably a successful track-record, then I don't see how Fiorina could.
Re:Echo chamber (Score:5, Insightful)
Only if the alternate reality doesn't exist. She actually turned HP into a ruin of it's former self, but she also actually got a massive pile of cash for it and Lucent actually started waving money and stock offers at her before her seat was even cold. Then she actually left a smoking crater where Lucent used to be but she actually made big piles of cash doing it.
That's the thing. She lives in an actual alternate reality where terminal fuck-ups are coveted.
For the rest of us, no matter how many times you discharge the halon, EPO the datacenter and delete the database server and all of the backups, you won't make CEO money, so it is truly an alternate reality.
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She could be positioning herself as a VP candidate if she manages to have a decent showing in the Iowa caucus and wins a few primaries along the way.
Channeling Sarah Palin? That's a scary thought.
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Sarah Palin actually held a political office. I'm not sure if Fiorina was even on a student council.
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Re:Echo chamber (Score:4, Funny)
Fiorina/Palin 2016: Making Hillary the sensible choice.
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He at least held an elected office first.
Maybe she'd have luck as an independent? (Score:4, Insightful)
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I'm not so sure. The rest of the GOP pack is a bunch of people who have been politicians for most of their life.
Fiorina does kind of stand out as someone who has led a large company. Which would be better for her if her leadership wasn't absolutely terrible.
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The rest of the GOP pack is a bunch of people who have been politicians for most of their life.
We could still see the godfather's pizza guy, and Trump keeps teasing us about planning to run as well. We also have Rand Paul, who is definitely running and was busy doing non-government stuff before running for senate. And don't forget that the last president from the GOP - as much as they encourage us to forget him - had more years of experience in business than in government.
Fiorina does kind of stand out as someone who has led a large company. Which would be better for her if her leadership wasn't absolutely terrible.
Don't forget, though, terrible leadership in business generally ends up ranking as "above average". HP does still exist as a
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That's because it started out large enough to have quite a bit of momentum.
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its STILL better than doing nothing, or doing the opposite
as for the bill in question, I wish people would be more factual with their coverage. The law protects business owners from abuse. Should a black banquet hall owner be forced to hold a KKK rally against his will in the name of equality??? no of course not. This new law would protect him.
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during her tree felling heydays at HP, I'm not surprised at the chutzpah that would be required for her to think that she could be president.
And her total lack of self-awareness to understand that she doesn't have a snow-ball's chance in hell.
I don't see her being anything approaching a serious candidate.
myke
qualifications? (Score:2)
Yes, why stop at fucking up a company... (Score:5, Insightful)
...when you can fuck up the world? Yes, let's put an MBA with a BA in philosophy and medieval history in charge of the USA. I mean, wouldn't *you* give the nuclear codes to the MBAs in your company? What could possibly go wrong?
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...when you can fuck up the world? Yes, let's put an MBA with a BA in philosophy and medieval history in charge of the USA. I mean, wouldn't *you* give the nuclear codes to the MBAs in your company? What could possibly go wrong?
What do you mean? Surely the nuclear codes are an underutilized asset that money can be made on. There are several highly motivated buyers mostly in the middle-east. You know those new HP servers that the government is going to buy aren't going to buy themselves. (Odd, for some reason HP is the only manufacturer that is able to meet new purchase requirements. And they are a mere 5000% markup over retail).
Ohcrap (Score:3)
So she can finish bottoming out the economy, put the country into full repo, and then all government forms will come with 17 pages of ads and all government websites will auto-load crapware and malware?
May Fiorina burn in hell!
Carly Fiorina for President! (Score:2)
Because HP went so well!
Carly's platform (Score:5, Funny)
"My plan for America will build on my spectacularly successful tenure atop Hewlett Packard. Therefore, if selected as president by the board members of the U.S. at A I promise to:
1. Sell California to China, because the state never produced anything of value.
2. Merge the supreme court, the FBI, and NASA, because that's the kind of outside the box thinking this country needs.
3. Focus on our core competence: T-shirt manufacturing. We can out-compete third world countries in this area.
4. After my policies have led the country to the top of Fortune 500, I'll ride my golden parachute to Mars.
Thank you!"
She has a shot (Score:2)
Hooray!!! (Score:5, Funny)
The R's are filling up the clown car again. Will THE Donald be next? Or will Sarah Palin try to climb in hatchback before he and Teddy Cruz can lock it? Maybe Jebediah will announce! Then the banksters can masturbate their piles of money over all of them and they will coast to victory!
No Thanks (Score:2)
This woman has destroyed everything she touched.
Goalposts (Score:5, Interesting)
I would speculate she is not competent enough for certain voters and not irrational enough for certain others, but by participating as a candidate, she will have an effect on which other candidates will be viable, by making others look good or bad by comparison.
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Reason.com has a story about how Somalia has done really well without a functioning government, so maybe she will let the warlords take over America and turn it into _another_ libertarian paradise
Here is her pitch to the small government crowd:
"A wide range of scholarship and commentary on Somalia, most with no ideological ax to grind, tells an interesting and even somewhat encouraging story—one about a society with an unusual and robust clan-based system of dispute resolution and goods provision that
Re:So she can do to the US... (Score:5, Informative)
1. libertarians are not anarchists and do not believe in 'no government.'
2. expecting the government to operate within budget like everyone else is not anarchy.
2. fiorina is likely not libertarian.
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While I agree with you that Libertarian =/= Anarchy, you will probably get a lot of arguments that 'getting government to operate withing budget' =/= Libertarian either.
In my mind 'getting government to operate withing budget' == Fiscal Conservative, which is why I cannot vote for the 'modern' GOP which thinks that it's roles is to play world police while cutting taxes for the wealthy and putting the country into deep debt.
I find it odd that the most fiscally conservative national figure these days is Pre
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In my mind 'getting government to operate withing budget' == Fiscal Conservative,
I'm a rabid left-wing radical, and apparently a fiscal conservative as well.
That's the problem with the current definitions. Everyone labels with the intent of shaming, not describing. I want a small government that does nothing but protect the rights of people from anyone who would impinge on them, from private or governmental sources.
A Libertarian wants a government that doesn't defend rights, but defends contracts. If property has rights, and people only have rights assigned to them by their propert
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Take Social Security for example. Rather than do something minimal like removing the income cap for taxation, or raising the tax by 2% to cover the long term demographic driven shortfall, they want to burn the whole thing down. We would be better off lower the retirement age than raising it, but the debate has already been pulled so far to the right you can't even talk about improving social security, you can only argue about how big the cuts *MUST* be to save the program.
Of course, you can shut them up with a "what do you do about the old person targeted by scammers who steal all her savings, so she's left penniless at 80, with no means of income or self support? She'll lose her home, and die starving on the streets if nothing is done. What would you have done? Yes, but what if the donations don't cover that? Is there any safety net at all?
That usually gets them on a 6 hour rant about personal responsibility, and some blaming the victim and such. But never an answer.
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as soon as I see somalia in a comment, I know we are dealing with a wingbat of some sort
Re:Not what we need (Score:4, Funny)
Another mushy moderate is not what we need. The GOP needs a rock ribbed, conservative bomb thrower. Go Ted Cruz!!!
Not precisely correct from an anatomical standpoint. The rocks in question are superior to the c1 vertebra.
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Nah, that was mostly caused by democrats and republicans 'reaching across the aisle' to burn the dollar from both ends and corner the market. This has been SOP for quite awhile.
Re:The Republcans would never let her win (Score:4, Interesting)
That said, this isn't something where they'll simply take anyone. Such a candidate would need to be in a position to take advantage of this, get access to donors, have the "experience" to push ahead. They'd need to be good at putting together and running a campaign. They'd need to be able to go toe to toe with all the other competitors and not stumble/look like an idiot/etc.
Part of the reason the Republican party fields minority candidates at lower rates isn't because they wouldn't back one - even Herman Cain had a moment where he was at the top of the polls, but he was a very flawed candidate once you got past the initial pitch. Go look at the following that Ben Carson has, and how many in the conservative base would love for him to run (and he might, though that doesn't mean he'll succeed, for the same reasons). No, it's because it's not easy to be a candidate for President without having worked your way up through lower offices, building a reputation, establishing contacts, etc. Every single successful candidate for either party in the last hundred years or so has. The only shortcut is through family connections, but even then they're running for Senator or Governor first. It's at the lower ranks that the potential candidates are weeded out, or just never given the opportunities to begin with.
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The two leading potential Democrat candidates are Hillary and 'Granny' Warren. Compared to them, Fiorina is a shining star. Fiorina falls about in the middle of the Republican pack, sounding good but with a field of destruction in her wake.
A Democrat president elected in 2016 means the end of the US as a world power, and the beginning of a new dark age. I feel very sorry for the youth of today.