Carly Fiorina is officially announcing her candidacy today. Not much of a surprise really, considering her dipping of the toes process for the past few months. She’s going to stream the announcement live from Garden Grove at 10AM, you can catch it here or over the flip.
But if you just can’t wait, well, she’s gone ahead and published an op-ed in the OC Register. It’s really just some seriously good times, and really I can’t think of a better way to start off an announcement than apologizing for not voting in the past:
Admittedly, I have not always been engaged in the electoral process, and I should have been. For many years I felt disconnected from the decisions made in Washington and, to be honest, really didn’t think my vote mattered because I didn’t have a direct line of sight from my vote to a result.
Just lovely, get the fact that you don’t think voting makes a real difference out there right away, and then wait until the second paragraph to say “Obviously I was wrong.” It is really hard to think of a worse way to have to start off your campaign where you have to ask voters to, um, vote for you than by saying that as a leader of one of California’s largest companies you didn’t think it was worth your time to vote. Niiice. But don’t worry, she’s got other reasons why she should lose to challenge Barbara Boxer.
Despite polls showing strong support for the public option in California, she’s going to replace real healthcare reform with tort deform!
Congress should reform medical malpractice to match what we have in California where frivolous lawsuits are a thing of the past. We should permit consumers to purchase health insurance from any company in the country, expanding consumer choice and driving down cost and unnecessary mandates.
People want to know that their care will stay where it belongs: in the hands of doctors and patients. Unfortunately, the path Congress is on in this debate is not giving us the confidence that it will.
And just if that isn’t enough, she wants to neuter the stimulus, that her pal and fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger praised vocally yesterday.
Tax, spend and borrow is not a governing philosophy; it’s a cycle of dependency and it is one that must be broken. Washington must show the discipline to cut spending and create policies that encourage and empower businesses to put people back to work.
Ah, old school Republican word play, I can’t think of any way to connect to a heavily Democratic general electorate. Oh, right, she has to face down Chuck DeVore in that primary, where she doesn’t even have a substantial lead despite her supposed viability. I hope Fiorina is steeling herself for the conservative onslaught, they are pissed from losing in NY-23 and are on the warpath. DeVore’s right-wing messaging could be just the rallying cry they’ve been looking for.
Chuckie aint getting my love in the primary. And in the general election, I am probably going to host a general election Ghoul pool and wonder if he’s going to do worse than Mountjoy in 2006.
Carly has an interview on the Flash Report if anyone is curious. Only question that was not asked of her was her position on LGBT equality that I would be curious of as well.
Sadly both candidates are flawed and I wish we could of done a do-over for candidate recruitment, it seems Boxer is one blessed lady having so many flawed nominees run against her.
in California, and since “torts are driving medical costs”, can Carly explain to my why my health insurance is going up 25% next month?
I was at an event at the AAPC in Sacramento, and the guys who did the Carlyfornia website were really just so proud of themselves for being so “tech savvy.”
Personally I prefer “Carlyfornication”….
Take somebody serious that ran HP into the ground and was FIRED for it?
She’s also talking about Public Options and Tort Reform when we have Single Payer on the table?
Chuckie is going to push her further to the right and that should be fun.
I don’t like watching NASCAR for the accidents but watching the Republican Party implode is just as interesting and existing.
Anytime these people run, it should be like Crooks and Liars in the “We Can’t Make This Shhh Up” section.
Which I suppose is a fancy way of saying that I have doubts that iCarly will even make it out of the primary…
(with apologies to Mark Mothersbaugh and the other members of a fine rock band from the ’70s and ’80s)