Fiorina tops GOP list for potential Virginia Senate contest

[brooklynite]

Politico:

Virginia Republicans could be about to start a mad dash for Sen. Tim Kaine’s Senate seat in Virginia — and Carly Fiorina could soon be leading the pack.

Whether or not Kaine wins the vice presidency this week, his term is up in 2018. But if he has to resign, there will also be a special election in 2017, and Fiorina, who resides just south of Washington, D.C., in Mason Neck, Virginia, is considering entering the race — but won’t make a decision on whether to do so until after Election Day, sources with knowledge of her thinking say.

Republicans in the state are urging Fiorina to run because she would bring immediate star power and fundraising ability to the expensive, back-to-back races for Kaine’s seat that will take place if he becomes vice president. Fiorina is not the only Republican interested, and the GOP field could end up being large. But her national name recognition after the 2016 presidential campaign would make Fiorina particularly formidable in a GOP primary.

Khzir Khan lives in Virginia...

[napi21]

1. Why would people like her any more AFTER this election than they did in the Pub primary?

The Pubs ca dream all they want but until they find some decent candidates, they're not gettin elected!

[Warpy]

2. A Democratic opponent only has to call her a CARPETBAGGER

Say what you will about the people in the rural south, they have long memories. Those memories include massive suffering caused by northern carpetbaggers during Reconstruction.

Or just call her a lying nutbag. That'll work, also.

[X_Digger]

3. +1. Those labels stick in rural Virginia. n/t

[Setsuna1972]

4. I thought she lived out in California ...

Carpetbagger indeed !

[4lbs]

7. No, we Californians kicked her out after she nearly bankrupted Hewlett Packard and tried to take on

Barbara Boxer.

[Trust Buster]

6. She lost her bid to win a Senate seat in California so now she wants to try the east coast.

[jehop61]

8. Ahem

One election at a time please

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Oh good, she can lie about planned parenthood some more.

[Retrograde]

10. I have great confidence

in Fiorina's ability to lose elections.

BTW - there's more to her than running HP into the ground: she also ran Lucent into the ground.

[HipChick]

12. Lucent too...

I used to work on a contract with them...they went *poof*

[eissa]

11. How many times can you get your ass kicked

before it dawns on you that folks just don't like you?