Looks like Ma’am Boxer’s going to have an opponent with deep pockets:
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina inched closer Tuesday toward a run for U.S. Senate next year, filing paperwork that will allow her to begin raising money for polling, political consultants and other preparations as she nears a formal decision in the next several weeks.
Fiorina, a Republican who served as a top surrogate to John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, has strongly signaled that she will challenge three-term Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in 2010. On Tuesday, she announced that she has filed forms with the IRS to create a political bank account, which she is calling “Carly for California.”
My advice to Ms. Fiorina: Keep Ma’am on the defensive. Remember, Ma’am’s going to play the game she played in ’92 and ’98, going into the gutter to attack her Republican opponents. Don’t play the game on her terms. Play her game, stay on offense and force her to play defense, keep asking her why a woman with a near three-decade career in Washington prefers sliming her opponent to defending her record. Make sure to ask Ma’am what she’s done for the Golden State–and why she would rather insult her constituents than meet with them.
Remember, Ms. Fiorina, you’re not the issue; Ma’am is. She’s been in Washington 27 years. In her 17 years in the Senate, things haven’t improved in the Golden State. And people, even here in liberal California, aren’t particularly happy with the political class today.
And let me know what I can do to help. It will be a good day for California and a better day for the United States when a woman like you replaces a mean-spirited Ma’am like Barbara Boxer.
Oh, happy day, oh happy, happy. Where do I send my check?
Catfight!
(Boxer is Alexis, naturally).
libs crying sexism in 3…2…1….
I was going to send this to you, but see you already got to.
Go Carly!!!!!!!
LOL. she has absolutely no chance of defeating Senator Boxer. Her “performance” managing McCain’s campaign showed exactly how inept she is. Coupled with her wrecking HP during her pathetic tenure shows she has no ability whatsoever to lead anything.
But, hey, keep putting up these incompetents; hopefully Palin will hang around a bit longer. It only reinforces what everyone knows: the GOP is completely out-of-touch with reality.
#1 – Being a huge “Dynasty” fan, I would NEVER equate the Botox Boxer with Alexis! She doesn’t have the style, grace or intellect to even compete with Alexis Morrell Carrington Colby Dexter.
But yeah, bring on the catfight! Maybe we can get them to wrestle in the DC reflection pool!
Sorry, couldn’t resist. 😉
Regards,
Peter H.
#4 – “LOL. she has absolutely no chance of defeating Senator Boxer.”
Proof please; otherwise STFU.
Regards,
Peter H.
bnl doesn’t even understand politics in his own state, let alone in one over half a continent away.
Here is a clue why Carly stands a good chance. I’ve been writing and calling ma’am boxers’ office weekly. I only get the usual canned response. Well just yesterday I got a long letter from her office explaining to me the ‘benefits’ of a healthcare system that will work well for me but not for ma’am boxer.
boxer is getting scared, and many Californians are ready for some real change, not the kind we’re getting in the form of pennies and dimes from this state.
um, buckeyenut lover, check your facts, Carly didn’t manage McCain’s campaign.
Dan, I always appreciate your take on California politics in particular since I live here as well. I wonder if you would consider changing Boxer’s title from “Ma’am” to “Call Me Madame!” ? At some levels she is akin to a madame so why not give her the benefit of being called one!
Call me madame doesn’t roll off the tongue so easily. I vote for Ma’abs…. Ma’am + Babs.
Well, this should get interesting. Fiorina didn’t cover herself in glory running HP, but at least she actually ran a company. Other than an unstellar run as a CEO there isn’t anything out there that pops to the average mind that says she’s anything but a perfectly decent person. It will be interesting to see how the MSM and Boxer try to turn her into a racist, ignorant, unaccomplished demonic whore arising from the very depths of Hell. It would, of course, be superb to see such a thing turn into the mother of all backfires, and for Boxer to be thrown out of the Senate.
“Ma’abs” works.
#12 – Matteo, at least unlike most of Capitol Hill and the Oval Orifice, Carly did in fact have some experience in the private sector as a CEO.
And I can guaran-damn-tee you that she did not show up for work and just vote “present.” Or claim that any decision was “above her pay grade.”
Regards,
Peter H.
Latest polls show Carly is closing the gap. It now stands at 47% to 41%.
A couple or more performances lake the last few and ma´am will be on the short end of the vote count.
#15 – Roberto, any incumbent is in trouble when they are polling under 50%. Especially in a so-called “safe” state or district.
Fingers crossed.
Regards,
Peter H.