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Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run
McGruber writes: Fired HP CEO and failed Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is "actively exploring a 2016 presidential run." Fiorina has been "talking privately with potential donors, recruiting campaign staffers, courting grass-roots activists in early caucus and primary states, and planning trips to Iowa and New Hampshire starting next week."
The republican candidate list now includes (at least)
Mitt Romney
Jeb Bush
Scott Walker
Chris Christie
Sarah Palin
Bobby Jindal
And now Carly Fiorina wants in, too? That will be quite a crowd.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
The organization, Carly for California, still owed vendors nearly $500,000 as of the end of September, according to Federal Election Commission filings. The committee’s outstanding debts included more than $80,000 to strategist Martin Wilson and his former firm; $43,000 owed to D.C. law firm Patton Boggs, where campaign counsel Benjamin Ginsberg worked at the time; $36,000 to fundraiser Renee Croce; $5,000 to press aide Jennifer Kerns; and $7,500 to political director Jeff Corless.
The Fiorina campaign also owed $30,000 to Joe Shumate, a storied political strategist in California who served as Fiorina’s senior adviser and died one month before Election Day in 2010.
Fiorina “hasn’t really communicated with anybody in 18 months about how she intends to deal with the campaign debt,” said Wilson, now a vice president at the California Chamber of Commerce. “Hopefully, if she gets more serious about running for another office, she’ll revisit the issue and get some of those bills paid off.”
She was a largely incompetent CEO.
WTF skills does she thinks she brings to the table as a fscking President?
Pretty much her entire time at HP was marked with terrible decisions, bad planning, and disastrous outcomes.
Well, I guess that's no different from Presidents, really.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
so let's not talk any further about Carly ruining the US, OK?
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
hahahahahhahahah.... can she run with Meg Whitman as VP, vs. Hillary-Warren?
... that were once great. I bet she can do the same with a whole nation-state. From statements by some former HP executives, her specialty is "shoot-the-messenger", which means that she has one of the worst possible management mistakes down pat and uses it as standard operating procedure. It really does not get much worse than this.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
But be warned that if she wins the election, you'll have keep buying the control of your local representatives over and over.
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,,,, breathe .... HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Glutton for punishment? Didn't the stomping in the 2010 Senate race teach her anything?
How does she expect to compete in the GOP primaries against....
(pause)
Hem, well, good luck then, Ms. Fiorina.
I can remember a time when the claim of the republican party was that its members were successful businesspersons and leaders of industry. (Whether or not this is or was factually correct in-practice is up for debate, I am just sayin').
I know a few people who worked at HP in the 2000s, and even with the sour grapes filters on, every one of them describes how she let HP rot away, killing divisions and outsourcing any function she could for quick balance sheet cash hits. There's still some soul left there though -- the non consumer PC and laptop division is doing OK, as is their server line with the exception of the Itanium mess. Their software and the former EDS is a disaster, and let's not even mention the Autonomy acquisition. (OK, Autonomy was done after she was kicked out.) Still, HP is a long way from its engineering-driven roots and I don't know if it can ever get back there.
Politics aside, I can't see what she could offer as President.
The OP was obviously joking!
So much whoosh!
Right?
right?
Oh dear god.
America is dying of political trolling.
She's a second rate, female Mitt Romney with the business acumen of George W. Bush. She'll get into the primaries, get ripped to shreds and probably run off crying about sexism because her track record will make the Republican base convulse at even thought of her winning the nomination.
CEO's don't have a good track record in political offices. The good ones learn the differences between running a business and being a politician, but it takes time. Someone should tell her that the Presidency is not a good 'starter' office to hold.
The Republicans could put a Ham Sandwhich against Hillary and win. That's what is so frustrating about the Democrats. They think that just because they want Hillary's cock that she can win the White House. I'm a registered Republican swing voter who has voted almost entirely for Democrats for the past 3 elections.
If the Democrats chose Elizabeth Warren: I'll vote Democrat. If they chose Hillary I'm voting 3rd Party unless the Republican Party nominates Rand Paul. He's 75% the man his father was, but after the last 14 years of Republicrats consider it a protest vote for some REAL change. A vote for Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush is a vote for the Plutocracy(DUH).
Back to Carly Fiorina, if the Republicans think Mitt Romney was bad: I would vote for Hillary Clinton before I voted for a Margaret Thatcher 2.0.
That bitch is crazy incompetent on wheels. She's "Gordon Gecko greedy" mixed with "Newt Gingrich level retarded". The only reason to even have her in the race is as a spoiler candidate to pull votes away from the most attractive male candidate during the Republican primary. Her first move as President would probably be to sell the US Navy to China and expect the US Air Force to get their air superiority fighters off the coast of hostile nations by asking them to work smarter and offering them vouchers for 10% off Amtrack tickets. Bonus points if she suggests getting them in the air by "pulling on their bootstraps". That bitch thinks just because shoving her head up her own ass has turned her in to a gravity defying perpetual motion machine, that the rest of us can be so effective at demonstrating the colossal heights of the Dunning Kruger effect which can be achieved if you work hard at it.
I would ACTUALLY vote for an Adolf Hitler/Stalin ticket before I voted for Carly and it wouldn't even be a hard decision. Gas chambers vs 99% unemployment? That bitch makes Gas Chambers and concentration camps seem appealing by comparison. Gulags vs Carly? Gulags every time. FUCK CARLY.
There is nobody, in any party, who I see on the horizon that I'm excited to vote for.
Can't give the electorate something to run from - got to give 'em something to run to. And I haven't seen it yet.
Unlike the other candidates, Carly has a proven track record of spectacular failure.
Don't settle for less, vote for first rate failure in 2016!
-- "So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated." - Bill Gates
After a failed merger attempt at Lucent and a failed merger attempt and other disastrous actions at HP, she failed spectacularly as a political candidate. And now she "is considering" trying again. She is so full of herself that she is in danger of exploding. The only thing she has consistently succeeded at is hiring press agents for herself. This "announcement" is a good example of that. She's done nothing in recent years except spend her golden parachute, and yet we are still talking about her.
Judging from her behevior at HP, her first act as President of the US would be to remove George Washington's picture from the $1 bill and replace it with her own just as she did with the portraits of Hewlett and Packard that graced the lobbies of all HP locations when she arrived there.
Totally underrated post.
I'd probably consider him the best President we have had in the past 40 years, especially considering the fact that the Iron Curtain fell during his administration and the US had no significant enemies to worry about for almost a decade.
I think calling the elder Bush the best President we've had in 40 years is more opinion than fact but he certainly was among the most qualified guys we've had in the job. Reagan gets the love from Republicans but I think Bush Sr. was a better president overall. Congressman, Ambassador to the UN, Envoy to China, Director of CIA, and Vice President. Unlike his son he was actually genuinely qualified for the job - at least as much as anyone can be. He was quite good at foreign policy which is about 2/3 of the job description for a president. Unfortunately he was not especially talented at domestic policy and even said publicly that he didn't enjoy it much. He did nothing to combat deficit spending and basically continued policies started under Reagan. When the economy tanked (not really his fault) near the election he was pretty much screwed regarding getting re-elected.
Assuming there's no legal barrier -- and there aren't many nowadays -- a new, even quixotic campaign allows the very same (mostly) donors/suckers/bribers to kick in more money to pay off the previous campaign's debts. It's a terrific racket.
Let's not forget the infamous "Demon Sheep" political ad.
Unfortunately, Ms Fiorina isn't among the women I'd like to see hold any political office at all. Besides, what is it with businesspeople thinking their experience automatically makes them fit to govern? Sure, some 'sound business principles' are appropriate to the role. But it's the job of government to serve all of its consituents' best interests, not to make a profit come hell or high water.
Corporotocracy be damned - the people are the country's shareholders, not its employees.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
Joe Biden is a lunatic living in his own world (fun though his world appears to be). Please, do nominate him. Thank you!
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
OMFG, BWHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
You're always going upstream, you paddle a little on the left and a little on the right, and stay mostly in the middle.
Jerry is a total pragmatist with long range vision. Which other governors of states in the 70s advocated for a communications satellite because information connectivity was the wave of the future? It would have been built in CA (jobs! and we design and build all the satellites here anyway, or at least we did in the 70s and 80s.. AZ now has a comm satellite plant.. they bought it with subsidies).
Look at him cracking the whip on the UC regents! When I went to UC, annual fees (wasn't called tuition back in the 70s) were $1000 which was an amount you could make with a summer minimum wage job ($2.50/hr). Now, they're talking $20k or more, and wanting to raise it 20+% over the next 5 years. Jerry said, no way, no how.
No matter who the Republicans (or Democrats, for that matter) nominate that person will become poisoned by Washington. It is a cesspool of lobbyists, special interests and wedge issues.
Policy has become a bidding war between rich corporations.
What is she going to do? Orchestrate a merger between US and Canada, then rebrand everything from the US as Canada, and everything from Canada as US? Then sell off Canada again when she finally realizes it is a disaster?
This wasn't used against you in your senate run (which certainly lacked any semblance of tact), but I GUARANTEE you that your past will resurface when you did things like this:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1005572/how-mike-capellas-castrated-carly
And this, as well as the "bad hair?"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/09/carly-fiorina-open-mic-vi_n_606723.html
I can't find a single positive comment on /. about Fiorina. We've got a surprisingly diverse collection of political opinions here (even if the ideologues seem convinced that /. is some kind of haven for extreme political views opposing their own), and if not even the trolls can find something supportive to say it seems pretty clear that this candidacy is totally DOA.
I sometimes ask revealing, often ignorant-seeming questions. Maybe they're harder to answer than you think.
But it's the job of government to serve all of its consituents' best interests, not to make a profit come hell or high water.
You've got a point there, but it isn't even necessary. Mitt Romney can make a profit come hell or high water. All that Carly Fiorina can do is torpedo a successful company's profits and market share. It's reasonable (if misguided) to think that a successful CEO might have some skills that apply to political office. But Carly Fiorina is about as far from a successful CEO as you can get.
I sometimes ask revealing, often ignorant-seeming questions. Maybe they're harder to answer than you think.
Well, to the degree to which the recognize the different roles and act accordingly, they seem to be okay.
Your ad here. Ask me how!
Alternately, it might be a testimony to the old saying that anyone truly qualified for the job wouldn't want it.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
In analogy with the mathematical Baire category theorem which exhaustively classifies certain topological spaces, I state the Baire political category theorem:
There are exactly two types of political fools:
1) those who believe Obama was a wonder turn for the better
2) those who believe Obama was a terrible turn for the worse
The proof is left to the reader...
I think I understand. It's not a turn, it's continuing along the same vector at a different velocity.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
What she did for HP.
Be afraid, very afraid!
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
If Herman Cane did not win the nomination despite being:
1) Black
2) Running two Successful Companies
3) Not a politician
4) Having catchy phrases like 9-9-9.
How can we expect a RINO with a much worse business record to win the nomination?
All you have to do is point to what happened at HP....
Rand Paul or Ted Cruse, 2016! :)
He knows all about wrestling and boning on camera, and has never run even one successful megacorporation into the ground. Clearly a superior candidate.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
The Republicans could put a Ham Sandwhich against Hillary and win.
The Republicans could have put a Ham Sandwich against Obama in the last election and won.
Unfortunately, they put up Romney, instead.
Never underestimate their ability to steal defeat from the jaws of victory.
America is dying of political trolling.
Then don't feed the troll.
Your contribution does not appear to be a Genuine HP(tm) Bribe. This may void your warranty with your local representative.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
Elizabeth Warren is completely unhinged. She could be replaced with a random number generator.
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She didn't do very well with HP, what makes her think she can be president. Never mind, look at the Alfred E Newman running the country now. No offense MAD Mag!
She was a do-nothing at Lucent.
She was a do-nothing at HP.
She would be a do-nothing as President.
Hey - maybe a President that does absolutely nothing wouldn't be a bad thing at this point.
Velocity is a vector
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
The Republicans could put a Ham Sandwhich against Hillary and win.
Not real sure where you are getting this. Any data I can find shows it exactly wrong. Right now, polling is showing Hillary beating any Republican put up against her. The one that does best is Romney, and the one they tried that does worst in Rand Paul. Its been this way for months, if not years.
Velocity is a vector
Um, ok, I was thinking direction vector rather than Euclidean vector, but you're right, velocity has both magnitude and direction, so I was using the term incorrectly. But I couldn't bring myself to use "speed". There's probably a better way to word it. Same direction, the only difference being we'll arrive at a bad place in a different time frame.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
The best way to deal with the M.E. is to bud out. Our tinkering has made it worse far more often than better. I wish the Office of the President was split into a domestic prez and a foreign policy prez.
I'd vote Ron Paul for foreign policy prez in the heartbeat. I just don't like his domestic plans.
Table-ized A.I.
We've had two racial flavors of dumb fucks in the last two presidents. Why not try changing the gender? That should keep 'em distracted for a while longer. And compared to Palin, Carly looks almost credible (assuming you don't look at her HP experience).
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As contrasted with a self-serving democrat who has never run a business.
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Whats her slogan ? I ran HP into the dirt and I can do the same for the US ?
No Thanks.... She makes the Plastic Man, Mitt Romney look like a good idea.
So Long and Thanks for all the Fish.
10? I think you mean 18.
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I don't have any idea why anyone would support her. Is she supposed to be "good for tech" or something. More or less, being against the intrests of the programers and users, and for the intrests of stockholders and management.
But I for one, have had enough of business in politics.
; if I did think that someone "official" would take note, I would click that box.
Why bother? Do you really think that if the federal government wanted to scoop you up, they couldn't? The NSA has spent billions on their Internet Big Brother project, and has every message your IP address has sent or received cataloged. Don't delude yourself into thinking that posting AC does anything but keep your karma from being hammered when you are posting dickish comments.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
This is a presidential candidate that will most likely favor mass domestic surveillance. After all, she willingly spied on her own board of directors. Please don't forget this when you go to vote against her and try to ensure her defeat.
"This week, President Fiorina welcomed all 174 new Congressmen from the 51st State, South Texas!
Although some have expressed concern that there are now more notorious drug lords in Congress than representatives from all New England states combined, the President emphasizes that 'together, we can realize cross-functional synergies to drive stakeholder value.'
Unfortunately, US Treasury bonds lost 80% of their value in after-hours trading."
The market capitalization of Hewlett Packard leapt something like 10 billion dollars on the news that she had been fired. That is to say, the stock market values her at negative 10 billion dollars. If she enters the race, how long can it be until someone labels her 'the minus ten billion dollar woman', and how long can she stay in the race with that label?
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
With the 10's of thousands of HP jobs she happily threw overseas, giant corporations corporations she plundered, any potential opposition will have no difficulties eviscerating her based on her 'record'. She needs to give up the d illusions of political grandeur.
Not content with fucking up Hewlett Packard she wants to fuck up the entire country as well.
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For all you Republicans out there, there will NEVER be another Ronald Reagan.
I find this to be rather Ironic, as RR wasn't that great of a republican leader. If people are going to idolize a former conservative president, why aim low? Ike was the last great conservative. Reagan with a numb witted twit in comparison. If you look at the republican presidents since Ike, it has been a steady slide into the gutter.
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
This is the same person that destroyed HP, Compaq and DEC. She is not a hero in the IT world but a looser, why should this person run the country?
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I need to decide if I need to register Republican - I'm neither - to vote against Carly. I'd never thought I'd be happy to vote for Hillary... Wow...
The Republicans had no choice but to accept the retard that the warmonger put on his ticket.
Whoa, that's a little revisionist. When Palin was announced, Republicans were ECSTATIC. Most people were not excited about McCain, but Palin got the base energized. Until she started opening her mouth, there really was no saving her after that point.