Carly Fiorina might be running for President

[mackerel]

the only problem is she never paid back any of her campaign debt when she ran against Barbara Boxer in 2010. I guess she owes a lot of her trusted advisers money.


http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/saunders/article/Carly-Fiorina-the-deadbeat-presidential-candidate-5979947.php

[PoliticAverse]

1. Not the first campaign to stiff people/vendors. n/t

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. This is a game that politicians pay. They borrow money, from banks, run up a bill...

and when their campaign treasury is empty they owe money.

For instance, Hillary Clinton's campaign debt from 2008 was paid off by President Obama's Campaign funds in 2013.

Fiorina and Clinton are not exceptions, they tend to be the rule. Banks don't mind loaning money to campaigns. They get access to winners, and losers and winners can not, as I understand it, retire the debt through bankruptcy.

Warren's campaign also owed money after her 2012 campaign in which she raised 42 million, spent it all and some besides.

It is possible that Fiorina is running so her new campaign can pay off her old debt. It is hard to believe she is dense enough to think she can win, though hubris could be at work.

[mackerel]

3. I guess my mother must have been doing something wrong

she always ran a fundraiser afterward to pay off the debt and then whatever was still owed she and my father personally paid off before the next election. It was usually a small amount they always made sure that the campaign manager and non volunteer support staff was paid.

[No Vested Interest]

4. "Usually a small amount"....

That was then - (I don't know when)-
and this is now.

[customerserviceguy]

5. Not to worry

even Republicons know she's never been anything except a total failure. She's what it looks like when the GOP tries to do affirmative action.

[Mr.Bill]

6. And yet she will look brilliant

among the Republican clown car at the debates.

[customerserviceguy]

7. Maybe

but she's pretty damned stupid. I'm thinking that she'll look like 2016's clone of Bachmann if she does get that far.

[Mr.Bill]

10. She'll look like Bachman

without the religious angle.

[Brother Buzz]

8. She's shooting for a VP tap

Jeb Bush, et al. just might find a female Neocon on the ticket could help neutralize the 'Hillary Clinton' wave, and Carly Fiorina would fill the spot well.

Country club republicans will find her palatable; she's not Palin dumb by a long shot.

[SoapBox]

12. Exactly...

Jebbie will look like the voice of calm and reason among all the Puke crazy...I could see her standing next to him.

Dems are gonna be in big FUCK'N trouble.

[KamaAina]

9. Good one!

[mackerel]

11. She may not be Palin dumb but she's Palin wrong consistently.

She pretty much single handily fecked up HP. I guess you could blame the rest of the shirts for following her lead, but she made bad decision after bad decision. It was too bad the HP family wasn't able to stop her. I guess good companies die eventually anyway.

[Cleita]

13. I don't know whether to laugh or throw up.

We Californians were not buying her, but I wonder if she might do better nationwide with the great unwashed masses of stupid.

[SoapBox]

17. Yup.

And she, like Jebbie, have been underground for the last several years.

[olddots]

14. is she Perky enough ?

the Pukes like Perky...perky perky perky

[mackerel]

15. Not at all. She's kinda like Condaleeza Rice she uses a lot

of big words as though that in and of itself makes you intelligent. (Of course none of what she says makes any sense.)

[pennylane100]

16. I have just had a brilliant idea.

She and Palin should run on the same ticket. It can be Dumb and Dumber part II.

[Brother Buzz]

18. Not going to happen

If Palin was brighter, she might have understood Fiorina repeatedly snubbed and dissed her BEFORE she endorsed her. Fiorina was smart enough to not acknowledge the endorsement.

Carly Fiorina, the Neocon, is the antitheses of all things Teabaggery.

[TeamPooka]

19. Carly couldn't even win California, her home state, in a race for senate. nt

[Retrograde]

20. And she lost big in Silicon Valley

Where many people have some connection to HP. The better you know her, the more you dislike her.

[TeamPooka]

21. Even her rich peers in the Tech biz would not vote for her. I say bring it. nt

[SoapBox]

22. I wonder if she will now try Senator...again.

No way...ever.

[mackerel]

23. I wouldn't put it past her.