Carly Fiorina Wins GOP Primary In California

In California we have the best opportunity in a long time of ousting Senator Boxer and Carly Fiorina is going to be the one to do it. Fiorina has just won California's primary:

"In the Senate race, Fiorina dropped more than $5 million of her own money into ads that took on her chief opponent, former Congressman Tom Campbell. The third-place finisher, Irvine Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, tried to rally support among the primary's most vocal voters, the "tea party" denizens, but his effort was undercut when Fiorina won the endorsement of the movement's icon, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Fiorina's victory set up a rarity in American politics — a November general election battle between two female nominees of the major parties. It and the Whitman-Brown race instantly became among the most watched races nationally with iconic Democratic veterans as key Republican targets.

Speaking to supporters in Anaheim, Fiorina spent most of her remarks criticizing Boxer. "I believe in lower taxes … so that we the people can best decide to spend and invest our hard-earned dollars," she said. "She believes the government can best decide how to spend your income."

Boxer characterized the former Hewlett Packard chief executive as a "heartless" executive who fired tens of thousands of workers and sent American jobs to other countries while grabbing perks for herself.

Unless there is some revelation about Fiorina that makes voting for her too unpalatable I am supporting her. This will likely be the last blog here. I will leave the blog up for a while.

Hot Air's CK MacLeod Bit By Palin Mania And Endorses Fiorina

Is there a moderate insurgency going on at the Hot Air blog? One of their Green Room contributors is now asking the true and tested Conservative, Chuck DeVore, to get out of the race for the unknown Carly Fiorina.

"Chuck DeVore is a solid conservative, very well-qualified to be senator or to hold other important offices or positions, but he doesn’t seem to have a prayer of both overtaking Carly Fiorina and defeating Tom Campbell in the June 8 Republican senate primary. He should drop out and, following Sarah Palin’s lead, endorse Fiorina for the good of the conservative movement, the state, and the nation.

I’m not going to attempt to compare Fiorina to DeVore: That would have been a more worthwhile undertaking if Campbell, supposedly at the behest of gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, hadn’t switched to the senate race at the beginning of the year. The real comparison should be between any-conservative and Campbell, who, in addition to being just the kind of bland establishment politician that Tea Party conservatives were invented to bring down, has an extremely dubious history of support for radical Islamist and anti-Israeli groups, ideologues, and activists that may give Barbara Boxer an opening she doesn’t deserve, and that in any event many conservatives will find difficult to forgive and forget..."

I am not satisfied that we know enough about Fiorina's tenure at Hewlett Packard. Her pro-life credentials seem tenuous at best. Fiorina has the money to finance her own campaign and keeps dumping her own money into her campaign, that ought to tell us something about her prospects. If DeVore loses the primary I will likely support Fiorina, but now is not the time to concede.

Cross posted at Blue Collar Philosophy.

Chuck DeVore Casts Doubt About Carly Fiorina's Views On The Chris Matthews Show

Palin Goes RINO With Fiorina Endorsement; Is There A Planned Parenthood Skeleton In Fiorina's Closet?

I think the very real possibility of defeating Senator Barbara Boxer here in California may have caused some clouded thinking by some Republicans. Most notable, Sarah Palin's endorsement of Carly Fiorina today.

"Chalk up another conservative base endorsement for ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina, and it's a big one: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

And the blowback has already started among some of the conservative base -- on Sarah's Facebook page. And now the campaigns are sniping at each other...just in time for the taping of tonight's Senate debate in LA. (It will air at 11 a.m. Sunday on KGO-Channel 7 in SF.)

Palin, the unsuccesful GOP VP candidate, posted her nod on her Facebook page...complete with an unnamed dis to Fiorina rival Tom Campbell as "a liberal member of the GOP who seems to bear almost no difference to Boxer."

Tsk, tsk, Sarah. You broke Reagan's 11th Commandment...about three sentences before praising Fiorina as a Reagan conservative.

Palin, who quit before her first term as gov ended, talks up Fiorina as growing up in a "modest home with a school teacher Dad." Uh, sort of. Fiorina's dad was a law professor who taught at A-list universities -- Yale, Stanford, Duke, Cornell, the London School of Economics -- that Sarah's peeps might sneer at by using the "e-word." Elite. Palin also doesn't mention that Fiorina studied several languages and attended the finest schools as her family traveled around the world.

Also: No mention of the "CEO" moniker or Fiorina's $21 million golden parachute she got from HP or the layoffs that went down while she was there..."

This is a decision based on pragmatism not principle. Chuck DeVore is the lone consistent Conservative running in this race. Palin's endorsement is even more troubling given the relationship Hewlett Packard has had with Planned Parenthood.

"The Hewlett Foundation has announced $125.1 million in new grants to 214 organizations. First and foremost among the beneficiaries is International Planned Parenthood Foundation (IPPF), for whom Hewlett cut the largest check by far, granting $8.3 million to support worldwide abortion.

Of the Menlo Park-based foundation's six program areas, the most money went toward “population” issues, specifically supporting family planning and AIDS prevention worldwide. In all, the foundation's "Population Program" gave $31.8 million to 38 organizations dealing with global population issues. The International Planned Parenthood Federation, based in London, claimed over a quarter of the sum to support its radical agenda..."

So how far back has Hewlett Packard been giving money to Planned Parenthood? Back when Carly Fiorina was the company's CEO? It is hard to imagine that Sarah Palin, a mother with a down syndrome child, would support a candidate who previously helping Planned Parenthood abort babies because they had down syndrome.

HT: Hot Air

Cross posted at Blue Collar Philosophy.

Chuck DeVore Is No RINO; Long History Of Being A Conservative

In case there are doubts about Chuck DeVore's conservative credentials, the Sacramento Bee says he has a long conservative track record.

When DeVore was a child, his mother was a GOP activist who campaigned for Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential campaign. She raised him to be patriotic, quipping, "I dressed him in red, white and blue probably too often when he was a little kid."

DeVore's tilt to the right was evident by his college days. President of the College Republican Club at California State University, Fullerton, DeVore remembers giving a speech at 19 about how the solidarity trade union movement in Poland was likely to spur the Soviet Union's downfall.

Assemblyman Anthony Adams, R-Hesperia, characterized DeVore as well-respected by colleagues, erudite, principled – but no backslapper.

"He's the kind of guy that you'd want to have a policy discussion with, but he's probably not the kind of guy that you're going to invite out for a beer," Adams said.

DeVore tends to be loved or hated: He got sky-high marks on legislative report cards of the California Chamber of Commerce, Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and California Republican Assembly, but he received flunking grades from Environment California and Equality California, representing gay and lesbian issues.

DeVore sees himself as somewhat of a "conservative with a bit of a libertarian tint."

"I didn't come up here to be everybody's pal and try to get along with folks at all costs," he said. "I came up here to try to live out a set of principles.

The Daily Kos Mocks Carly Fiorina

I think things are getting bad for Carly Fiorina because the Daily Kos is ripping her statements apart.

"Failed CEO Carly Fiorina is the gift that keeps on giving. The gift is a steady dose of epic fail.

Fresh off of Demon Sheep--a political advertising fail that spawned hordes of parodies and even became a trending topic on Twitter--Carly has now demonstrated that her ignorance of online media is matched only by her ignorance of federal law.

California is in very difficult fiscal straits right now, but one thing that's off the table is declaring bankruptcy. Why? Quite simply, because federal law prevents states from declaring bankruptcy. Apparently, this was news to the person who aspires to be a Senator from the State..."

Maybe if Fiorina bothered to vote on a regular basis then she would be more aware of the facts.

Carly Fiorina Goes After Tom Campbell; Knows Not To Mess With Chuck DeVore

Carly Fiorina must think that Congressman Campbell is the weaker and more vulnerable opponent she faces as she goes after him in this sheepish ad.



This ad has already brought a response from Adolf Hitler:



HT: Ed Driscoll