Posted on 05/24/2015 9:19:26 PM PDT by entropy12
But the line to meet one candidate, Carly Fiorina, a former Silicon Valley executive whose name recognition is negligible among voters, snaked down the hallway. For more than an hour, Iowans filed into the suite for their chance to meet Ms. Fiorina.
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“It was the most exciting speech all night,” said Cait Suttie, 27, who waited to meet Ms. Fiorina and now wants to volunteer with her campaign.
Iowa voters are known to fall in love with firebrand candidates and underfunded outsiders, from Pat Buchanan in 1996 to Howard Dean in 2004. And this cycle, Republicans here are starting to swoon over Ms. Fiorina, who is so unknown in national polls that she may not even be included in the first presidential debate in August.
Ms. Fiorina, whose net worth is between $30 million and $119 million, has generated headlines and steady crowds of conservative voters. In April, nearly 300 people showed up to see her deliver the keynote address at the Clinton County Republican Party dinner in Iowa, twice as many as were expected. On Saturday, when she spoke at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference in Oklahoma City, she was interrupted by several standing ovations....read more at...
Oh, boy, the Slimes is on the offensive.
I still think she’s an asset. She can attack pant suit in a way that the men can’t.
Slimes only shills for loser RINOs.
that’s definitely true. But she has said things about pantayit that the others couldn’t get away with. If she hangs around for awhile and does some damage to Hillary and then disappears that would be good.
She wants to be the VP. Given her disastrous business record, that would be a serious mistake. Make her Ambassador to Burundi or some such.
They are scared of a strong woman.If she debates Hillary she will kick her ass.
that’s fine with me lol.
I know little about her politics but judging from the way she runs computer companies, she would run the country into the ground.
HP was the largest computer maker in the world. It controlled market direction. She said they need to get out of the computer business.
HP WAS the most respected name in printers. Where is their 3D printer? Who wouldn’t buy an HP 3DJet 5000 if they offered one even at a premium cost?
I’m not even gonna talk about VAX/VMS.
The woman has less business sense than Barack Obama.
I'm just reporting what I read.
In Carly’s defense, it should be noted...
1. The entire IT industry was going thru tumultuous times - even IBM shares dropped 60%
2. HP was hugely de-centralized (especially in admin function) & Carly chose streamline and cut thousands of jobs
3. Strategically, Carly did what was necessary to save HP in the long run.
4. Any CEO worth his salt would have done the same things.
Before I created my own company, I rose to officer level in a $400 Million organization reporting directly to the Chairman. I’ve seen first hand the politics at the highest level and one must stand on his (or her) principles to achieve their goals. Carly had many opponents to her streamlining as many wanted to cling bitterly to the old structure...even in the face of failure.
In 2016, I believe Cruz is the ONLY viable candidate with the correct strategic vision to save America and the Constitution.
Carly can provide a very useful function - not only in the primaries nut the general election as well as somewhere in the Cruz administration.
Anybody can fool an Iowan; Jimmuh Carter did, but he was second to “None of the Above”.
She didn’t do very well in her CA debates either; I don’t even remember who she ran against, was it Boxer or Feinstein, same essential creature any way.
Ah yes, Dept of Commerce, and she can downsize it by 50% while she is at it, that would be a good start. Maybe give her State Dept after that, that cesspool needs a total scrubbing from stem to stern...
re: In Carly’s defense ...
I was at HP during her reign. Her brilliance included selling iPods with HP logos on them. Bleah.
Nonetheless, I could support a Carson-Fiorina ticket just to watch liberal heads explode.
Being VP might keep her from wrecking any more businesses.
Facts to not match up with your post. First, Fiorina has been gone from HP for what over a decade? 3-D printers was not even on the horizon in the market place.
Second, HP was ALREADY in trouble before Fiorina was brought in to “change” HP. I was heavily in Internet stocks circa 1999-2000. I know first hand how EVERY Tech stock fared in that era. In reality, if Fiorina did not do the “conservative” thing and layoff lot of employees, HP could easily have gone out of existence. As for acquiring Compaq, at the time everyone including HP board, supported the move. The only mistake made was paying too much for Compaq.
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