Carly Fiorina: I Want To Be Number Two

[Joanne98]

According to Politico, John McCain's short list for vice president includes three women, of whom the most talked about is former CEO of HP Carly Fiorina. Currently, she's often seen campaigning with him, and serves as one of McCain's economic advisers, or so he tells Cindy.

Is Carly willing to do what it takes to be the Republican VP nominee? It's unclear, though anybody who once laid off 7,000 people is probably not going to have a problem claiming to have seen Obama kneeling towards Mecca.

http://www.alternet.org/wire/89602/?ses=ee44254fcf5f4574006963e164fe93f7

[Rick Myers]

1. Why doesn't he just hang an albatross around his neck!!!

McCain/Fiorina 08

"I'd buy THAT for a dollar!!!"

Ack!

[MidwestTransplant]

11. Buy it for a dollar now but it was worth $2 before Carley took over!

[Liberal Gramma]

2. I hope they're not serious

Bad choice. She did some damage at HP, wouldn't want her to do the same to the country. But then, the Republicans aren't going to win, so I guess it doesn't matter who they run.

[ReadTomPaine]

6. Her tenure at HP was designed to groom her for a Senate run against Boxer..

Fiorina's been a RW hack for a very long time. I worked on an article about her back when she first appeared on the high-tech scene and it was like turning over a rock in a swamp.

Here's a piece from Salon's Lawrence M. Fisher that touches on much of this..

http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2005/02/10/carly

From early in her six-year reign, Carly's mendacity was breathtaking, as she methodically eviscerated HP of everything the company once stood for. Is that too harsh? Recall the "invent" campaign, launched soon after she joined, where she plastered billboards and ads with the image of Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard's sainted Palo Alto garage, even as she was slashing the company's research budget and laying off scores of real-life inventors. After all, tinkering with the outer reaches of particle physics may be cool, but it's hardly a bottom-line contributor, not this quarter anyway.

.....

Yet Carly and the HP board chose to dump this profitable business to concentrate on commodity products like printers and PCs. Why? The answer at the time was that securities analysts accustomed to following straightforward companies such as Dell Computer really couldn't understand a complex business like test and measurement. And, to be sure, Wall Street's shills fell into lockstep, praising the divestiture as a brilliant strategic move that would, in that tired phrase, increase shareholder value.

As HP's best and brightest headed for the doors, whether they jumped or were pushed, some of them were not shy about calling a reporter who had covered the company for many years. As I talked to these talented people from every level of the company, one interpretation of events emerged with remarkable consistency. Carly had no intention of sticking around Hewlett-Packard for very long, these folks said. Her real intent was to do a quick, Lee Iacocca-style turnaround, accompanied by the best autobiography money could buy, and in 2004 run for the U.S. Senate, against Barbara Boxer.

It seemed a little far-fetched, but soon the photo-op shots of Carly in the company of high-ranking Republicans began proliferating. Even as Carly's script for HP ran into harsher realities, even as Boxer retained her seat, the story never really died. And in retrospect, it offers the only explanation that makes any sense at all of Carly's biggest strategic move. I'm referring here to the acquisition of the Compaq Computer Corp.

It looking like they are grooming Arnold for the run against Boxer now, btw.

[ReadTomPaine]

3. You are #2 Carly.. the smell should have tipped you off. n/t

[mrreowwr_kittty]

18. Beat me to it! LOL. nt

[Deja Q]

4. She couldn't even run a top ranking computer company. I'd say she's already a #2,

except I don't like making potty jokes.

Never mind insulting the American workforce during her tenure, of which irony repaid her hubris in kind.

No, she is not a good candidate at all.

Why can't she live on her golden parachute, and continue to dis working Americans - especially those who got a golden shower because of her actions?

[SoCalDem]

5. Gee if Carly was 30-something, John might dump Cindy

and marry her :rofl:

That's his track record :)

[blondeatlast]

7. "Americans think they have a God-given right to a job. They don't" Fiorina--

please, McCain, choose her, choose HER!

Your base will loathe-er, LOVE, I mean LOVE you for it!

:evilgrin:

[ReadTomPaine]

9. But she, of course.. is entitled to the Vice Presidency. It took someone special to ruin HP...

she was up to the job, however.

[ErinBerin84]

8. haha, so many McCain VP choices, so many freakshows.

It's hard to decide on which ticket would be the most entertaining.

[madaboutharry]

10. Maybe I am mistaken, but I thought I

read that her tenure at HP was mired in controversy. I know I read that everyone hated her. Am I confusing her with someone else?

[ReadTomPaine]

15. See post #6 n/t

[asjr]

12. The two of them would not make even

a mediocre vauldville act.

[IDemo]

13. Carly, I hope you're Gramp's #2 as well

Because that will mean many thousands of votes the McCainorina ticket will not be receiving from present and former HP'ers.

[anonymous171]

14. She would be better than Lieberman.

For us, I mean.

[CoffeeCat]

16. She turned HP into #2...

...so I guess she has plenty of experience in that arena.

OMG...Obama is so going to kick McCain's ass. I feel sorry for him and
whatever running mate he choses. They haven't a prayer.

[oviedodem]

17. He will will win with that becasue I fear the Clinton supporters will vote

for them just because she is a woman. Never mind the fact that she ran a company into the ground brings NOOOOOO economic,energy,domestic policy to the table. Is so big business like there is no tomorrow.

[blondeatlast]

19. 95% of the HRC supporters are WAY too smart for that and really do care about

women's issues.

The last thing anyone should do is sell them short. They know that Fiorina hasn't got their backs, only her--and her political ambitions--own.

[AllentownJake]

20. Libby Dole is a woman sort of

Do you think she speaks to Hillary supporters?

Most Clinton supporters aren't that stupid and judging by the attacks on Michelle during the primary season it has nothing to do with the candidates sex.