{"id":11279,"date":"2010-03-14T01:11:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T01:11:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-14T01:52:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T01:52:58","slug":"carly-failorina-strikes-again-this-time-with-demonblimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/14\/carly-failorina-strikes-again-this-time-with-demonblimp\/","title":{"rendered":"Carly Failorina Strikes Again: This Time With Demonblimp!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the California Republican Party convention in Santa Clara today, failed CEO Carly Fiorina launched another of her campaign’s ridiculous and, in this case, even offensive web video ads. This one portrays Barbara Boxer as a blimp (because she’s “full of hot air” – get it?!) terrorizing California from above.<\/p>\n

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The ad reaches new lows in both the pathetic and the bizarre. It is also deeply self-contradictory and a classic case of projection.<\/p>\n

In the ad, Fiorina argues that Boxer is a “failure” because she’s only had 3 bills passed in 18 years. What isn’t stated is that for most of that time, Boxer served under either a Republican Senate (1995 to 2007) or a Republican president (2001 to 2009). Only in her first two years in the Senate, 1993 and 1994, and this last year, 2009, did she serve with a Democratic Congressional majority AND a Democratic president. While there, Boxer is poised to deliver health care reform and climate change legislation.<\/p>\n

Apparently Fiorina thinks that’s bad. Is she afraid Boxer will rain down health insurance subsidies on the masses from her blimp?<\/p>\n

The ad also mocks Boxer’s claim that climate change is one of the most serious national security crises America faces. By mocking that claim, Fiorina appears to be outing herself as a global warming denier. I’m sure that Central Valley farmers suffering from drought, residents made homeless by wildfire, and San Francisco Bay Area businesses concerned about rising sea levels have nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n

There’s more nonsense in this ad, which has to be seen to be believed. The apparent thinking behind this ad is that to win the Republican nomination for US Senate, one has to prove they can lob the best insults at Barbara Boxer, rather than explain to Californians why right-wing economic policies will somehow work this time when they’ve failed every other time they’ve been attempted.<\/p>\n

Once you’re done laughing, give some money to Barbara Boxer<\/a> at ActBlue. As ridiculous as these ads are, Fiorina clearly has the money to keep putting these messages about Boxer out to the public, and that’s something to take very seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the California Republican Party convention in Santa Clara today, failed CEO Carly Fiorina launched another of her campaign’s ridiculous and, in this case, even offensive web video ads. This one portrays Barbara Boxer as a blimp (because she’s “full of hot air” – get it?!) terrorizing California from above.<\/p>\n

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The ad reaches new lows in both the pathetic and the bizarre. It is also deeply self-contradictory and a classic case of projection.<\/p>\n

In the ad, Fiorina argues that Boxer is a “failure” because she’s only had 3 bills passed in 18 years. What isn’t stated is that for most of that time, Boxer served under either a Republican Senate (1995 to 2007) or a Republican president (2001 to 2009). Only in her first two years in the Senate, 1993 and 1994, and this last year, 2009, did she serve with a Democratic Congressional majority AND a Democratic president. While there, Boxer is poised to deliver health care reform and climate change legislation.<\/p>\n

Apparently Fiorina thinks that’s bad. Is she afraid Boxer will rain down health insurance subsidies on the masses from her blimp?<\/p>\n

The ad also mocks Boxer’s claim that climate change is one of the most serious national security crises America faces. By mocking that claim, Fiorina appears to be outing herself as a global warming denier. I’m sure that Central Valley farmers suffering from drought, residents made homeless by wildfire, and San Francisco Bay Area businesses concerned about rising sea levels have nothing to worry about.<\/p>\n

There’s more nonsense in this ad, which has to be seen to be believed. The apparent thinking behind this ad is that to win the Republican nomination for US Senate, one has to prove they can lob the best insults at Barbara Boxer, rather than explain to Californians why right-wing economic policies will somehow work this time when they’ve failed every other time they’ve been attempted.<\/p>\n

Once you’re done laughing, give some money to Barbara Boxer<\/a> at ActBlue. As ridiculous as these ads are, Fiorina clearly has the money to keep putting these messages about Boxer out to the public, and that’s something to take very seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1990],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1990"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2VV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}