Carly Fiorina channels Dede Scozzafava, wields race/gender card against conservative rival

michellemalkin.com ^ | November 23, 2009 | Michelle Malkin

[the anti-liberal]

Carly Fiorina channels Dede Scozzafava, wields race/gender card against conservative rival

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 23, 2009 11:03 AM

Grass-roots conservatives, your attention, please: The NRCC and GOP dumped $1 million of your hard-earned money into radical Leftist Republican Dede Scozzafava’s NY-23’s campaign — money that was squandered trashing mainstream conservative candidate Doug Hoffman, who lost the race by less than 3,400 votes.

Now, the GOP elite Senate candidate in California, Carly Fiorina, is running against Democrat Barbara Boxer by…trashing mainstream conservative GOP rival Chuck DeVore.

Fiorina’s strongest argument against DeVore? He’s a white man and she’s not.

Really:

Asked why she is a better candidate than her Republican primary opponent Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Calif.), Fiorina said that a woman stands a better chance of defeating Boxer.

“I have nothing against white men, I am married to one,” Fiorina said at a breakfast at Americans for Tax Reform. “But Barbara Boxer has defeated [them] over and over again.”

Political observers with long memories should remind Fiorina how Boxer engineered GOP defeat. Bruce Herschensohn, the Republican candidate in 1992, was a staunch and unapologetic conservative talk show host who came within 5 points of beating the San Francisco liberal. Desperate to ensure Boxer’s victory, dirty Dem operatives launched a last-minute smear campaign by shouting about strip clubs.

Herschensohn’s skin color and chromosomes had nothing to do with Boxer’s win.

In keeping with Fiorina’s identity politics-driven campaign, she also said today that even though she didn’t follow the nomination closely, she would have voted to confirm Obama SCOTUS pick Sonia Sotomayor.

An Obama echo, not a choice.

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Today’s rejected RNC solicitation form of the day comes from reader Genene H:

And from reader Stephen:

I just wanted you to know that the Republican Party called me for the 3rd time in a week. I finally decided to answer and give them a piece of my mind. They wanted money immediately for some rallies at college campuses to oppose Obama’s policies and cited the leadership of Newt Gingrich. I said I was disappointed in Gingrich, and that his support of candidates like Dede Scozzafava in New York, who supported the stimulus bill, union check card, was pro-choice, and pro gay marriage, was too much for me. The guy tried to argue that Scozzafava had gotten a bad rap and had tried to lower taxes and agreed with Republicans on many things, to which I responded that she voted more liberally than 46 other Democrats in NY government! Then I said, her support of Owens after she withdrew from the race kind of confirmed what I thought all along. I left by telling him I would support individual conservative candidates, like Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, but that I would not give money to the Republican party to support candidates like Scozzafava. Thanks for all your great work.

[the anti-liberal]

"Fiorina said that a woman stands a better chance of defeating Boxer"

"even though she didn’t follow the nomination closely, she would have voted to confirm Obama SCOTUS pick Sonia Sotomayor."

I never liked Fiorina much, especially after I read this letter to her a while back - What Arab Civilization? - (strangely, though I posted this article here at FR myself several years back, I can't find it), but this - identity politics? - seals the deal, imo.

[screaminsunshine]

Ha. Another McCainiac. LOSER!

[sam_paine]

She’s running in a communist state. The central valley is outwieghed by Sacramento and the coastal pinkos.

Ronald Reagan would lose in a landslide in today’s California.

Fiorina would offset Franken’s vote on Obamascare if she were there Saturday.

This is not NY23. This is a full-out communist state.

[Hodar]

“Elect Carly Fiorina, let’s have her do what she did for Hewlett Packard, to us all”.

Let’s fire as many workers as we can, then she can buy 5 Lear jets so she can make it to her meetings on time. Sure, she could take one of the airlines - but she’s too good to assocaite with the great unwashed.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I can’t stand Carly. Another McCain in the making. Why can’t us Californians get ONE TRUE Conservative to run this state. All we get are a bunch of libs

[HamiltonJay]

We need to get this woman out of the way as fast as possible, she’s been a disaster and will be just as big if not a bigger disaster in the Senate should she get elected.

Sorry Carli, destroying HP does not qualify you for the Senate. Californians, you can do better, and I hope to God you will send her packing in the primary.

[the anti-liberal]

That may be, but it doesn't change the fact reality that she's campaigning on identity politics.

But if you live there, it's your state - do what you will, though there is - apparently - a conservative candidate, a white male, whom - once again - the Republican party's campaigning against.

[gimme1ibertee]

If I get any calls from the RNC,or any mail solits,my response will be a short and sweet “My money goes to SarahPAC,and yours should too”. However, I don’t think I will get any calls,though,because of the last “short but sweet” response they got from me LOLOL

[CounterCounterCulture]

[freekitty]

Don’t vote for her. Prime example of a RINO that’s gone communist.

[the anti-liberal]

There’s a white male named Chuck DeVore, a conservative who’s running for US Senate in California. We’ll see if he gets Scuzzied, or wins the seat.

[sam_paine]

there is - apparently - a conservative candidate, a white male, whom - once again - the Republican party's campaigning against.

Doug Hoffman had a chance to win and to vote in the US House.

A true Reagan Conservative has no chance whatsoever in California for Senate, statewide race.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Gee, Carly just about killed HP and now she looks like Martha Kookley's twin. For those of you lucky enough not to live in either Californicia or Massghanistan, Carly wants to be a US senator as does Marth Kookley. Both are running as if being a woman is a job requirement to protect evil right such as abortion and queer/lesbo "marriages".

God, please deliver us from evil!

[Sarah Barracuda]

DeVore seems like a good guy. Don’t know if he stands a chance in this state but we’ll see

[the anti-liberal]

Then vote for Carly.

[Luke21]

So what. She’s another Maine sister in waiting.

[sam_paine]

So what. She’s another Maine sister in waiting.

It's very simple. Boxer and Feinstein 100% communism or a 30% Fiorina type.

I think California deserves all three, frankly.

[Antoninus]

Enough! No more of this RINO cr@p. If we wish to take back our country, the first step is to take back the GOP!

[Carry_Okie]

Fiorina would offset Franken’s vote on Obamascare if she were there Saturday.

More often, she would compliment it.

California thanks you Texans for (again) inducing its most productive to evacuate... not.

Stick to your own state. You've got enough trouble in the Rick Perry Maquiladora Buffer Zone to keep you more than occupied, and more than enough liberals to offset in Houston and Austin without adding more Californians.

[Antoninus]

It's very simple. Boxer and Feinstein 100% communism or a 30% Fiorina type.

No, there's a lot more to it than that. If she wins, she immediately becomes a presidential contender. And what this country DOESN'T need is yet another Mitt Romney-style liberal in the larder of GOP presidential contenders.

ENOUGH!