I start with the 5 things we should know about Carly Fiorina
She’s a law school dropout
She started her career as a Kelly girl
She is a cancer survivor
Her husband was a tow truck driver
She ran one of the most (in)famous campaign ads ever
The one thing I have learned about Carly Fiorina in the past
few months is her ability to never say, Sorry, I was wrong about blah, blah, blah.
For example her rant during a debate:
“It
is the height of hypocrisy for Mrs. Clinton to talk about being the first woman
president, when every single policy she espouses and every single policy of
President Obama has been demonstratively bad for women. Ninety-two percent of
the jobs lost during Barack Obama's first term belonged to women.”
That
92% was debunked 4 years ago, but does Carly care? No.
Where is Carly on the issues?
First let me say that Fiorina is absolutely fixated on
Hillary Clinton.
She believes that in a debate she would clean Clinton’s
clock, so anytime she can, she brings up Hillary’s name.
On the minimum wage
and retirement plans, during the debate on 10/28/15 she said, “I think it’s a wonderful that that businesses start a
401(k). The point I’m making is this; the federal government should not be in a
lot of things. There is no constitutional role for the federal government in
setting up retirement plans. There is no
constitutional role for the federal government to be setting minimum wages.
The more the government gets engaged in the economy, the slower the economy
becomes.”
Fiorina
was the head of HP from 1999 to 2005 and earned over 19 million dollars in
salary and when she was fired, she received a $21 million severance package*.
There is obviously no constitutional role for setting executive salaries
either. So, it is okay for her to have earned over $40 million dollars in 6
years, during which time the company fired 30,000 employees, shipped jobs
overseas and the stock value tanked, but it is not okay for the Federal
government to set a minimum wage.
*That is some retirement fund.
Fiorina is a fierce opponent of abortion and especially
Planned Parenthood or is she?
When she ran for the Senate against Barbara Boxer, she told
a story about her mother-in-law’s decision not to abort her husband. Now that
she is running for President she has added a story about accompanying a friend
to an abortion clinic and the effect that having an abortion has had on her
friend. When Planned Parenthood was accused of selling aborted fetal parts and
ended up in the crosshairs of our rabid Congress that clinic became a “Planned
Parenthood” clinic.
The anecdote of her friend and the trauma she suffered as a
result of her abortion cannot be verified, (neither can the story about her
mother-in-law) since her campaign went from ‘it is in her book’ no it is not,
to it ‘is in 2 news stories’ to ‘no comment’.
Fiorina on Healthcare.
Researching her position—well let me say it has changed.
In a 2013 appearance on Crossfire, Fiorina supported a
requirement that every American purchase health insurance.
She also opposed the insurance companies denying care for
pre-existing conditions.
Now she opposes Obamacare, she thinks that allowing children
to stay on their parents policies until age 26 may ‘undermine ‘personal
responsibility’.
Like many politicians, she supported the ACA when it was
proposed by the Heritage Foundation but hates it now that it is President
Obama’s signature accomplishment.
In the September 21st CNN/ORC poll, she was in 2nd
place behind The Donald with 18% support, by October 14th she was in
3rd place with 8% of the registered Republican voters polled, being
willing to vote for her.
Fiorina, like all the men on that debate stage, is not who
America or the world needs in the White House. Her ability to spin stories from
whole cloth and refuse to admit when confronted that she lied is truly
frightening.
I do not want her receiving that 3AM call or as we used to
say in the old days, do not want her finger on that red button.
Not the most likable or qualified of the Republican pretenders. But, then, who is? As I watched the debate the other night I tried to imagine any of the bozzi as President. What would that look like? A small nod to Kasich, Christie and Rubio as, at least, being a plausible President. Any of the others would be a caricature in office at best and, downright dangerous at worst. At this point Rubio looks like the most likely nominee. It's inconceivable that the GOP would nominate Trump or Carson. Or is it?
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