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Palin bucks the tea parties, endorses Carly Fiorina (DeVore spokesman responds)
Washington Post ^ | May 6, 2010 | David Weigel

Posted on 05/06/2010 7:02:49 PM PDT by FTJM

Way back in November, right after announcing her bid for the U.S. Senate in California, Republican candidate and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina told conservatives in Washington that she "shared Sarah Palin's values." Today, Palin returns the favor.

Carly is the Commonsense Conservative that California needs and our country could sure use in these trying times. Most importantly, she’s running for the right reasons. She has an understanding that is sorely lacking in D.C. She’s not a career politician. She’s a businesswoman who has run a major corporation. She knows how to really incentivize job creation. Her fiscal conservatism is rooted in real life experience. She knows that when government grows, the private sector shrinks under the burden of debt and deficits. We can trust Carly to do the right thing for America’s economy and to make the principled decisions she has throughout her professional career.

Fiorina, who's struggled a bit to regain front-runner status in the primary race since former congressman Tom Campbell entered it, has collected endorsement after endorsement from national conservative groups -- especially anti-abortion rights groups. The most conservative candidate in the race, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, has been endorsed by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and the Tea Party Express, so there you go if you're looking for a story of "tea party infighting."

UPDATE: DeVore spokesman Joshua Trevino reacts:

Sarah Palin's endorsement brings with it tremendous media attention, but not necessarily votes. Conservative activists in California know and like Chuck DeVore -- and that's our bottom line.

I think the best I can do is point you toward the responses from the conservative base on Palin's Facebook page, and on Twitter: there's a lot of them respectfully but firmly telling the former Governor that she's been misled here. And they're right.

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: ca2010; carly; carlyfiorina; chuckdevore; devore; fiorina; palin; palinforfiorina; palinfreeperping; sarahpalin
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To: Tennessee Nana; truth_seeker

TN it seems you are stocking me....

looking for something to jump on BTW I did not say those things it was in the article on google

My post was about an article By Michelle Malkin if you bother to check

Carly Fiorina channels Dede Scozzafava, wields race/gender card against conservative rival
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/23/carly-fiorina-channels-dede-scozzafava-wields-racegender-card-against-conservative-rival/

VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdwqwnFVRXg&feature=player_embedded#!


61 posted on 05/07/2010 5:09:53 AM PDT by restornu
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To: truth_seeker
The information is readily available for anyone that wants to look it up. When Firorina started her career at the helm of HP, HP's stock was at $52 per share. When she left (was moved out by the board) five years later it was $21 per share. That's a 60 percent drop. During this same period, Dell's stock prices increased. On news of her departure from HP, the company's stock immediately increased 6.9 percent.

Any positives Firorina has are the result of a media makeover.

Not sure what your point was in asking but this stuff is pretty common knowledge.

62 posted on 05/07/2010 5:22:02 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: restornu

You are aware that Carly’s hair is like that because she had breast cancer and it is a result of chemo, right?


63 posted on 05/07/2010 7:55:10 AM PDT by svcw (Habakkuk 2:3)
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To: mlocher

Agreed


64 posted on 05/07/2010 8:01:10 AM PDT by svcw (Habakkuk 2:3)
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To: restornu
I apologize, I thought you were saying about the Gray hair butch cut.
65 posted on 05/07/2010 8:04:34 AM PDT by svcw (Habakkuk 2:3)
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To: svcw

Yes I do my hair fell out too!


66 posted on 05/07/2010 8:24:04 AM PDT by restornu
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To: svcw

Thnak you for your fairness


67 posted on 05/07/2010 8:32:34 AM PDT by restornu
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To: restornu

Me too. But taking a shower was a breeze and no shaving legs!!!


68 posted on 05/07/2010 8:54:59 AM PDT by svcw (Habakkuk 2:3)
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To: gunsequalfreedom

When she was thrown out the engineers were sending emails “ding dong the witch is gone”. Yet, I will vote for her over Boxer if she wins the nomination (well I’ll vote who ever is the Republican).


69 posted on 05/07/2010 8:57:17 AM PDT by svcw (Habakkuk 2:3)
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To: svcw
When she was thrown out the engineers were sending emails “ding dong the witch is gone”. Yet, I will vote for her over Boxer if she wins the nomination...

Of course I understand the choice if Fiorina is the nominee. The point I am trying to make is that the Republican party has to do a much better job of picking candidates. But what else is new.

California is headed to a financial crash. Where is the strong fiscal conservative in the race. The last thing the state needs is someone that ran a successful company into a spiral with bad decisions.

But, all for the Party, right?

70 posted on 05/07/2010 9:49:31 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: gunsequalfreedom

No. It is more like anyone over Boxer. Then we get a conservative. I have seen very good conservatives being told by party big wigs, you are the best candidate but you can’t win because of the makeup of California. These party big wigs should be the first to go.


71 posted on 05/07/2010 9:58:03 AM PDT by svcw (Habakkuk 2:3)
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To: svcw

Agreed


72 posted on 05/07/2010 10:26:50 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: restornu

So which on which the issues you so kindly listed above, do you object to her written position?

Because as I read through them, I agree with her positions.

In fact her positions appear to be similar to Chuck DeVore’s positions.


73 posted on 05/07/2010 2:57:24 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: truth_seeker

I was puzzled by her endorsement of Dede Scozzafava!


74 posted on 05/07/2010 3:13:30 PM PDT by restornu
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To: gunsequalfreedom

“The information is readily available for anyone that wants to look it up.”

Here is what wiki says, including the part about a general downturn in the entire IT business, during her HP tenure.

Do you have any specifics about what she did wrong, at HP?

from wikipedia:

In July 1999, HP appointed Carly Fiorina as CEO, the first female CEO of a company in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Fiorina served as CEO during the tech downtown of the turn of the second millennium. During her tenure, the market halved HP’s value commensurate with other tech companies at the time and the company incurred heavy job losses.[20] The HP Board of Directors asked Fiorina to step down in 2005, and she resigned on February 9, 2005....

....On September 3, 2001, HP announced that an agreement had been reached with Compaq to merge the two companies.[21] In May, 2002, after passing a shareholder vote, HP officially merged with Compaq. Prior to this, plans had been in place to consolidate the companies’ product teams and product lines.[22]

The merger occurred after a proxy fight with Bill Hewlett’s son Walter, who objected to the merger. Compaq itself had bought Tandem Computers in 1997 (which had been started by ex-HP employees), and Digital Equipment Corporation in 1998. Following this strategy, HP became a major player in desktops, laptops, and servers for many different markets. After the merger with Compaq, the new ticker symbol became “HPQ”, a combination of the two previous symbols, “HWP” and “CPQ”, to show the significance of the alliance and also key letters from the two companies Hewlett-Packard and Compaq (the latter company being famous for its “Q” logo on all of its products.)

Here is an historic shareprice chart for HPQ, IBM, DJIA, and NASDAQ.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=my&s=HPQ&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=ibm&c=%5EIXIC&c=%5EDJI

If you are intellectually honest, you will readily observe that during her tenure, all four measures went down. The NASDAK of that era is probably the best reflection of tech stocks. Including IBM is relevant, for they were and remain both large, old computer tech stocks. DJIA is for general reference.

I believe this dispenses with the “Carly ruined HP” claim.


75 posted on 05/07/2010 3:25:44 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: Minus_The_Bear
She just called anybody that was for the AZ law a racist.

That wasn't Fiorina. That was Meg Whitman.

76 posted on 05/07/2010 3:31:30 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Obamunism: You have two cows. The regime redistributes them and shoots you dead)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

It was both.


77 posted on 05/07/2010 3:51:12 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: truth_seeker
Do you have any specifics about what she did wrong, at HP?

The biggie was the merger with Compaq. A week after the purchase, HP stock plunged 22%. Compaq stock dropped 14%. The combined drop wiped out $3 billion off the value of the takeover.

On your comment about the downturn, as already posted, HP's number fell. Lucent and Dell numbers increased.

Some of the insider criticism of her is that she shifted priority from nurturing employees to financial performance. That ran contrary to the conservative businesses founders that saw value in people.

With Fiorina, it became a Financial results all-or-noting game.

Also contrary to conservative business management, she worked over quarterly financials to put them in the best positive light and forecasting unrealistic sales growth. The conservative approach is to under report and then over achieve.

On this last point, it sounds much like the management philosophy of the Sacramento politicians that have the state in such a mess. Maybe she will fit right in but her management style and the risks she took the ending up hurting HP are not to my liking.

78 posted on 05/07/2010 5:02:16 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Minus_The_Bear
Ummmm Fiorina is pro-Amnesty so Palin is lying. She just called anybody that was for the AZ law a racist.

+++++++++++++

Please provide a link backing you up,

79 posted on 05/07/2010 5:12:31 PM PDT by afnamvet (Patriots Rising)
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To: JaneNC
Carly is for cap and trade as well.

She also supports regulation of the internet.

++++++++++

Care to back that up with a link?

80 posted on 05/07/2010 5:15:53 PM PDT by afnamvet (Patriots Rising)
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