Carly Fiorina’s conversion from Hillary Clinton fan to fervent critic

washingtonpost.com ^ | 8/14/15 | Ruth Marcus

[cotton1706]

In 2010, the then-GOP Senate nominee went all middle-school-cafeteria on her Democratic opponent’s hairdo. “God, what is that hair? Sooo yesterday,” Fiorina, already miked up, commented, quoting an aide’s assessment. Two years earlier, in the makeup room at ABC’s “This Week” with me, Fiorina said something that, at the time, was mildly interesting, but is now revelatory. It was May 2008, close to the end of the long primary battle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, and we were discussing the two Democratic contenders.

At which point Fiorina, then a campaign surrogate for presumptive GOP nominee John McCain, offered some unprompted praise for Clinton: If Fiorina hadn’t been backing McCain, she told me, she would have been for Clinton.

“That’s off the record,” Fiorina immediately added.

[BlueStateRightist]

Whatever you think of Carly Fiorina, this is a textbook Compost hit piece.

[sagar]

I don’t trust Fiorina.

[HarleyLady27]

I don’t either, she’s another Hillary....

[cotton1706]

“Whatever you think of Carly Fiorina, this is a textbook Compost hit piece.”

Oh, of course it is. But I found it interesting that if Carly wasn’t supporting McCain, she would have been for Hillary. For ALL moderate republicans, if they can’t get one of their own in, will openly support a democrat over a conservative.

We’ve seen this countless times over the past several years.

[SamAdams76]

"...went all middle-school-cafeteria..."

Now that's a good one. I'm stealing that for next time one of my teenage nieces gets snarky.

[Buttons12]

How long will it take her to "evolve" on Islam? And do we have that long?

[Twinkie]

Yeah; I’m surprised she didn’t see straight through Hitlery from the get-go. The fact that Hitlery’s supposedly a “feminazi” & still riding Billious Clinton’s coattails after he abused women should have told Carly enough about Hitlery to put off any intelligent person.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Insurmountable character flaw.

[SunkenCiv]

Nice that she thinks for herself. ;/)

[CounterCounterCulture]

She is/was a fan of Dianne Feinstein...

Carly Fiorina: "Sen. Feinstein has been a fine senator for the state of California, and has accomplished a great deal. I would describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver," Fiorina told Chronicle reporters and editors during an interview with the newspaper's editorial board. "I admire her, I respect her. I like her. I think and I hope she would say the same about me."

www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2486345/posts

[Sparky1776]

Did Hillary go to Carly’s wedding too?

[CatholicEagle]

Wapo piece designed for freepers. Job well done. And for you freepers who were once liberal and Democrat, you haven’t really converted and no one here should trust you. No one can really say when you stopped beating your wife, if ever.

[Iltrmgo06]

I think we are missing the general idea that Carly was making, of course it would be better to vote for Hillary rather than Oboma. I can not stand Hillary but i knew that Oboma would be worse, remember hope and change??

[ifinnegan]

It’s more a smoke screen to make it seem she is no longer associated with eh Clintons.

If you aren’t aware in 2013 and 2014 she was still part of the Clinton Foundation Global Initiative.

[ifinnegan]

Thanks for the blast from the past.

I remember during that campaign not even knowing she was anti-abortion.

iCarly is a GOPe candidate.

She’s not even really a candidate. Her run was always meant to serve a a female candidate to siphon votes from Sarah Palin or any conservative female candidate who might run.

[drjimmy]

I think we are missing the general idea that Carly was making, of course it would be better to vote for Hillary rather than Oboma.

Except Carly wasn't deciding between Hillary and Obama. She explicitly said she would be supporting Hillary if she wasn't supporting McCain. She didn't pick a different GOP candidate she would get behind; she picked Hillary, whom she also heaped praise on.

[MARKUSPRIME]

She’s a RINO femi-tard