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The thought of Sarah Palin being one stopped heart away from being able to nominate supreme court justices and representing the greatest country on earth gave me the heebie jeebies.
So what ... SO WHAT!!!!!! Last I heard, having all of one's hair follicles wasn't a prerequisite to being President ... now ... understanding what the vice president president is ...yea, that's pretty important.
Carly Fiorina, former head of computer / printer / tech firm Hewlett-Packard may take a shot at the GOP primary for U.S. Senate from California. If successful in the GOP primary, she would challenge Barbara Boxer for the seat. Story is at this link.
Boxer is 3 term U.S. Senator with at least $5M in her purse to campaign on.
I'm not nuts about her, but IMO if she had been McCain's running mate she would be V-P today. She was essentially booted out of McCain's campaign for saying that neither McCain nor Palin were fit to run a company of any size. She was right, too. When she was head of H-P, there was a lot of controversy and she left the company under a bit of a cloud, one of those people around whom a lot of storm clouds often swirl. Not sure if she'd be a good Senator or a loose cannon sort.
Two excerpts from the link:
- A former economic adviser and presence on cable news, Fiorina was largely sidelined from public appearances by the McCain campaign after telling an interviewer she didn't think either member of the GOP presidential ticket was qualified to run a major company.
- Democrats wasted little time in attacking Fiorina's latest move. “This is a person who was fired from Hewlett Packard for running the company into the ground, fired from the McCain Presidential Campaign for incompetence, and now thinks the people of California are going to hire her," said Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee spokesman Eric Schultz.
HP laid off thousands of employees just to come up with the money to pay her to go away. She was running the company into the ground
You guys may be right, that McCain would've lost no matter what. I loved the guy in 2000 but by 2008 he was so over the hill and I knew so much more about him that there was no way I could vote for him. Nor did I want a Bush "third term" and that's about all he was offering. I suspect that Fiorina would've been decent in front of interviewers, but yes, the extreme religious right would've rebelled at the GOP convention (as they promised) at her being on the ticket instead of someone they liked.
If she does enter the Senate race in California it will be interesting indeed.
I would have voted for McCain while holding my nose, but Palin was the conservative voice of reason that would have made it palatable.
When Sarah Palin was put on the ticket, yea, it boosted McCain's conservative street cred, but her wackiness and general inarticulate and lack of curiosity didn't win over thinking independents or Hillary supporters (like me) who also weren't high on Obama. The day Palin joined the ticket was the day my vote went for Barack obama. The thought of Sarah Palin being one stopped heart away from being able to nominate supreme court justices and representing the greatest country on earth gave me the heebie jeebies.
I wonder why you (and all of the leftists, really) call Sarah Palin "inarticulate", among other things. I think she articulates conservative thinking very well, and she sure understands that the direction in which we are now headed is a path to destruction.
Isn't it really just because that is what the left must do to gain power? They have no good ideas of their own. All they can do is throw insults, shout "racist", "homophobe" and other things at their opponents.
If the left really had any good ideas, why are we in such a mess right now, and things are getting worse?
The answer is that the Progressives, who right now own the left, are doing exactly what they intended, which is to destroy capitalism from within the system.
I don't believe that the majority of the so-called "left" are part of this. Rather, they have been sucked in.
I wonder why you (and all of the leftists, really) call Sarah Palin "inarticulate", among other things. I think she articulates conservative thinking very well, and she sure understands that the direction in which we are now headed is a path to destruction.
Isn't it really just because that is what the left must do to gain power? They have no good ideas of their own. All they can do is throw insults, shout "racist", "homophobe" and other things at their opponents.
If the left really had any good ideas, why are we in such a mess right now, and things are getting worse?
The answer is that the Progressives, who right now own the left, are doing exactly what they intended, which is to destroy capitalism from within the system.
I don't believe that the majority of the so-called "left" are part of this. Rather, they have been sucked in.
That's rich! The left has the market cornered on spewing insults? Ok, I'll give you racist and homophobe and raise you NAZI, COMMUNISTS, SOCIALISTS, HITLER ...
please.
Progressives may own the left, but the askeered extremists on the right own the conservative movement right now and that's something to really be ashamed of.
As matters of business relationships, she'd leave Boxer boxing empty envelopes in the mail room, begging the secretary pool to at least call her Ma'am. Or anything besides 'hey you'.
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Sarah Palin is endorsing former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina in the GOP's U.S. Senate primary in California.
The former vice presidential candidate says on her Facebook page that Fiorina's experience running a major corporation is sorely lacking in Washington.
Palin endorses Fiorina in California Senate race - Politics- msnbc.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36998485/ns/politics/ - broken link)
I think this means Fiorina is doomed.
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Palin endorses Fiorina in California Senate race
