Carly Fiorina

My wife and I disagree, in some respect, on Carly Fiorina.

In my opinion, she is very good when she sticks to political issues, as she comes off as being well grounded in these issues, spontaneous, and well spoken. This doesn't mean that I necessarily agree with her in these respects. My wife and I agree on that point.

Where we disagree is that I think she does herself a disservice when she plays the female victim card, or encourages others to play it in her stead. Although I would vote for Trump if he were a candidate in the general election, I think most people will agree that he's an ass.

Whenever someone says something critical of Trump, he fires back, and he often gets personal. You may think that, in this, he does not come off as being presidential but, quite frankly, we haven't done very well electing those who appear presidential, and I think this is because we have been trained to consider only the polished politician as being worthy of the office. That hasn't worked out well for us, and I know that I am not alone when I say that this is largely responsible for Trump's appeal.

When Trump makes a remark about Chris Christie's weight, you barely hear of it again. When he criticizes Jeb Bush, or treats Rand Paul like an ignorant child, I'm sure the victims aren't amused, but there are no lasting repercussions. Chris Christie doesn't call upon the fat people of the world to unite against Trump, and the media mentions only as a light moment.

However, when Trump is critical of Carly Fiorina, suddenly it's a major issue, and Carly does call upon the women of the world to chastise him for being so insensitive to a woman. After all it worked for Hillary in her Senate race. Carly then goes on the talk shows whining about how hard it is for a woman running for political office.

Hard? The way I see it, with something like seventeen other Republicans running against her, only one dares to criticize her in any way, for fear of being accused of waging a war against women, and being called a sexist. That seems like a huge advantage to me. She can criticize whoever she wants, and no dares to respond in kind.

If you wanted to talk about hard, consider this. In the CNN debate, 44% of the questions asked by the moderators focused on Donald Trump, none of them complimentary. Twenty-six of the questions that were asked included Trump’s name, and eighteen of those questions were asked of other candidates.

 

I am not impressed with Carly Fiorina at all, and the more I watch her, the less I like her ! When she talks, her eyes dart back and forth and never focus on anything or anyone. It really makes me doubt what she is saying.
I agree that she plays on the fact that she is a woman, and also think that she does herself a disservice when she does that.
She obviously had at least some of her snide remarks preplanned and was just waiting for the opportunity to use them, especially the one where she remarked that "all of the women in America plainly heard what Donald Trump meant" about his remark concerning her.

When she was asked a question, very often she would evade the whole topic completely and go off on some tangent.
When they asked her a question about how she would help America if she were elected, she was answering by describing what she thought about the Statue of Liberty, for heaven's sake. What has that got to do with making the United States a better place to live ?
Donald Trump talked about her being fired from HP, and she just responded by talking about his businesss bankruptcies.

Truthfully, I dislike her so much, it is hard to tell whether I would less like to see Carly or Hillary as our next president.
I still like Rand Paul a whole lot; but I do not think that it is likely that he would make the nomination, and he has some attitudes that I do not like, even though I agree with most of his policies.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...lculating-tragic-stepdaughter-s-mom-says.html

 

Actually, @Sheldon Scott, I was just making my point that I really do NOT like Carly Fiorina. Certainly, if it came down to one or the other of them being in the White House; I would not hesitate to choose her over Hillary Clinton either.
I thought that several of the prospective nominees did well in this debate. I think that Christie gained ground this time, too. They are reporting that Ben Carson lost points; but I thought that he did better this time around than he did before.

Amazingly, although I seldom watch CNN, I thought they did much better at running the debate than Fox did. This was more of actual discussion of important issues and not just some of the silly stuff that was asked in the Fox debate, especially by Megyn Kelly.

Donald Trump seemed to be under par and not up to his usual self, and I wondered of maybe the efforts of his campaigning are starting to wear him out. He has been traveling and speaking just about every day for the last few months.

 

I thought that she was okay at first, too. I have not seen anything that makes me think that she is leaning in a Muslim direction, and would be interested in reading that if you can share a link with us, @Ike Willis.
The things that I have read do not seem to show that she was very good at the positions that she held, and I read on another forum that HP was selling computer parts to Iran when they weren't supposed to be doing that, and she was the CEO.
Since she was the head of the company, I am sure that she had to know what the company was doing, and that HP had made a trade deal with Saudi Arabia to be the middle man in the sales.
Then, she denied that she know anything about these illegal sales , and even said that an investigation had cleared her completely.
Apparently, that part never happened.

When you watch her talk, she never seems to focus on anything and her eyes just dart around really strangely. Usually, people will look at the person that they are talking to, or at least focus on something; but she doesn't, and to me, it seems weird and very unnatural.
Maybe Carly is really an alien ?