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2010-05-07 Home Front: Politix

Sarah Palin endorses Carly Fiorina in California

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Posted by Fred 2010-05-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Tom Campbell has more brains and sense than Carly and Palin combined. Then again, if Carly's stronger against birdbrained Barbie Boxer, then let the stronger candidate move forward.

Posted by lex 2010-05-07 00:39|| 2010-05-07 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Until she gets kicked out of office, Barbie wants us to ~~defer~~ refer to her as Senator, lex.

Posted by gorb 2010-05-07 01:09|| 2010-05-07 01:09|| Front Page Top

#3 i absolutely loathe Carly... the way she ran HP was an embarrassment. she has minimal grasp on things conservative and is in thrall to all that is PC. i suspect she would run a campaign against boxer that would make McWimps presidential outing look aggressive and well oiled.

she may be the lesser of 2 evils stood next to Boxer. but the difference is rather slim.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-05-07 01:34|| 2010-05-07 01:34|| Front Page Top

#4 This does hurt. Palin appears to be building her cred as opposed to supporting a true candidate. That said, she has remained consistent in her loyalty to those she's worked with in the past. It's a tough call but count me in the "disappointed" camp.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2010-05-07 02:21|| 2010-05-07 02:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Boxer is a national embarrassment. I'll gladly put up with Carly in order to get rid of Barbie. It would be a huge, Scott Brown-style win, a sign that the tide is truly turning.

Seriously, people need some hope. The situation in this country is truly frightening. We HAVE to get rid of this Congress and this administration.

Posted by lex 2010-05-07 03:47|| 2010-05-07 03:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Palin's prob'y being loyal to a sister suffragette. Poor Tom Campbell-- the Charlie Brown of CA politics.

It's a great shame, really, given that this man is, aside from maybe Paul Ryan, the only national pol we have who has any clue about how to avoid the coming fiscal/financial sh$tstorm.

Posted by lex 2010-05-07 03:50|| 2010-05-07 03:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Another defeat for the "Tea Party".

See? We told you there was nothing to worry about!

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Posted by Bobby 2010-05-07 06:00|| 2010-05-07 06:00|| Front Page Top

#8 I've been really concerned about Campbell's longstanding ties to jihadi enablers. I doubt his ideology is really in that camp, but his judegment is iffy, to say the least.

Posted by lotp 2010-05-07 07:14|| 2010-05-07 07:14|| Front Page Top

#9 longstanding ties to jihadi enablers.

Links? I know he wrote one stupid letter, but that seems overstated. Nonetheless, he's a RINO and Carly's an incompetent. The strongest argument for either is that they're not Barbara Boxer. The Caliphornia trunks are still in disarray. Big loser? Palin.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-07 07:21|| 2010-05-07 07:21|| Front Page Top

#10 The Frontpage people dug into that, Nimble Spemble, in an article published last month. I believe it was posted and discussed here at Rantburg; at any rate, the Thing From Snowy Mountain posted it in the O Club this morning, so I thought I'd share it again.

Representative Campbell did more than merely write a letter. He introduced legislation to ban the use of secret evidence in immigration courts, for the purpose of preventing the deportation of Sami al Arian's brother-in-law, who was accused of connections to terrorist groups. One assumes he, like Professor al Arian, was in leadership positions in the Muslim Brotherhood and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The connection to Campbell was his policy director/press secretary.

In other words, not a dinner party acquaintance or automatic favour to a constituent... although not as tight as President Obama's friendship with Professor Khalidi, the PLO official at whose table Obama wrote a good portion of his second autobiography.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-05-07 08:21|| 2010-05-07 08:21|| Front Page Top

#11 Carly Fiorina saying she didn't think someone could run a major corporation is the funniest thing I read all day. Although I generally like Sarah Palin, this is a big disappointment. Fortunately, even an horribly incompetent former HP CEO is better than Babwa Boxer.

Posted by Eboreg 2010-05-07 08:41|| 2010-05-07 08:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Campbell also has some huge question marks in how he the California's budgets have been handled. Why do the California Repulicans always leave us with such sad choices.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-05-07 10:13|| 2010-05-07 10:13|| Front Page Top

#13 Thanks, TW. I missed that one. I had not heard the legislation angle before. That is disturbing.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-07 10:14|| 2010-05-07 10:14|| Front Page Top

#14 Hello Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like to welcome you all to the game of Go.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-07 10:54|| 2010-05-07 10:54|| Front Page Top

#15 Chuck DeVore is the conservative in the race, and he's stuck at 14%. Campbell never met a tax hike he didn't like, and Carly is self funding. That's the math, and Sarah solved it correctly.

Posted by Iblis 2010-05-07 11:01|| 2010-05-07 11:01|| Front Page Top

#16 the woman will have a better chance of winning than the man.

Posted by bman 2010-05-07 11:31|| 2010-05-07 11:31|| Front Page Top

#17 Bill Buckley has framed, better than I ever could, what I think is the correct perspective: I'll vote for the most conservative person electable.

Campbell is not electable. DeVore is not electable. Good people in their own ways, and I can lament way DeVore can't get it done, but he can't, and were I a California resident, I wouldn't throw my vote away on him.

Fiorina is more conservative than Boxer (my pet chihuahua is more conservative than Boxer). Fiorina is also electable. Therefore, Fiorina gets my support.

Posted by Steve White 2010-05-07 11:37|| 2010-05-07 11:37|| Front Page Top

#18 Sarah, this is a huge disappointment. Did you do it just because Carly knows where the money is? How much did she promise you for 2012? Ask yourself: How much did she really help McCain? What happened to McCain? Loyalty is a great thing but if somebody is a boat anchor you need to cut them loose.

Republicans need to wise up if they ever want to gain power in this country again. Look at what happened in the last general election in California. Obama beat the crap out of McCain. Boxer will do the same to Fiorina.

Boxer may have been damaged by ObamaCare and the bailouts but I gotta believe that the people in this state who voted for her don't understand any of that anyway. They'll vote for her again. The unions, the illegal aliens, the moonbats...they're all still here. They are dumber than dirt and platitudes from Fiorina will not get through to them.

Moonbeam Brown will endorse Boxer. Feinstein will endorse Boxer. These are big names in this state.

And remember, Fiorina is deadly dull as a speaker. I've seen her. I know. She'll put you to sleep faster than Sominex if you don't have sense enough to walk out on her first.

And remember that the HP board of directors paid Fiorina $21 million to get rid of her. They fired her and they had good reasons for it. Boxer will examine those reasons. You cannot assume that Boxer will be dumb enough to let that slide.

What could Boxer say about DeVore? That he won't squander our money and allow our country to be conquered by the invaders from the south? That he doesn't believe in socialism?

Sarah, you're big enough that you could have given DeVore the boost that he needs. But you compromised for the money.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-05-07 12:39|| 2010-05-07 12:39|| Front Page Top

#19 I left HP soon after Carly announced the Compaq merger. She is a "bigger is better" woman, ripe for transnational government agendas. Sarah did an oops, Carly is not conservative. She is an egomaniac.

Posted by Beau 2010-05-07 12:56|| 2010-05-07 12:56|| Front Page Top

#20 Fortunately, even an horribly incompetent former HP CEO is better than Babwa Boxer.

Well, maybe Sarah had to choose between the lesser of two evils. Mickey Mouse is not a good write-in.

Posted by gorb 2010-05-07 14:02|| 2010-05-07 14:02|| Front Page Top

#21 I think Steve White has the Buckly calculus correct.

Posted by No I am the other Beldar 2010-05-07 14:22|| 2010-05-07 14:22|| Front Page Top

#22 California started down the path to complete destruction a long time ago, nothing can stop it now. They're toast and nothing short of a complete and catastrophic collapse will wake most of them up.

Look at their budget deficits, their entitlement mentality. If some one did try to fix the place they'd make Greece look like a picnic.

Posted by Jefferson 2010-05-07 14:24|| 2010-05-07 14:24|| Front Page Top

#23 When Palin endorsed McCain instead of Hayworth I started wondering. This just confirms what I started wondering about.

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-05-07 14:59|| 2010-05-07 14:59|| Front Page Top

#24 Palin owed McCain. She owes Fiorina nothing. I'd give her credit for Rubio and start wondering now.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-05-07 15:39|| 2010-05-07 15:39|| Front Page Top

#25 Palin shows great political instinct once again.

DeVore can't win, and we certainly don't want Boxer. Going for ideological purity doesn't cut it.

As for claiming that Palin couldn't run a major corporation, Carly's just shameless. She really did a job on HP. I'd have thought she'd be too embarrassed to make that statement, knowing the comeback.

Not only that, but she's wrong.

Posted by KBK 2010-05-07 16:09|| 2010-05-07 16:09|| Front Page Top

#26 I don't think anyone can save California. Boxer and Rinos will try to funnel money into California to prop it up. The rest of the country will be paying for decades of bad decisions made by liberal California governments.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-05-07 16:22|| 2010-05-07 16:22|| Front Page Top

#27 I agree w/JQC.

NS, not sure I think Palin owed him, his team did quite a hachet job on her as you no doubt recall after the election. I agree abt Rubio, but that was an easy call. I think she should've stayed mute on both maverick and carly.

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-05-07 17:11|| 2010-05-07 17:11|| Front Page Top

#28 Fiorina is a legend in her own mind. She took a world class company and ran it into the ground. After far too long, the HP Board showed the good sense to kick her out. She's better than Boxer, in the same way that the flu is better than a heart attack.

Posted by DMFD 2010-05-07 19:51|| 2010-05-07 19:51|| Front Page Top

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