{"id":920,"date":"2015-05-05T20:51:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T01:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=920"},"modified":"2015-05-05T20:51:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T01:51:07","slug":"race-2016-carly-fiorina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/05\/05\/race-2016-carly-fiorina\/","title":{"rendered":"Race 2016: Carly Fiorina"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GOPer Carly Fiorina recently announced a Presidential run.\u00a0 She brings her corporate experience to the race; she has no public experience, according to Ballotpedia<\/a>.\u00a0 She worked for 17 tears at AT&T, and then became CEO of H-P for 6 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
In her On the Issues Vote Quiz, I find myself agreeing with her concerning limits on campaign funds; otherwise she’s unknown, I’m indifferent, or we disagree.\u00a0 On The Issues <\/a>gives her this:<\/div>\n
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I haven’t heard her speak, so I’m not aware of her positions outside of the On The Issues quiz.\u00a0 Finding her in the polls is difficult.\u00a0 And whether she would be a competent public leader is an open question; I have little faith that her corporate executive experience truly transfers over, which is one of my pet peeves<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s consider something else that can get my knickers in a knot \u2013 the businessman who decides to run for office and repeatedly offers up his businessman experience, his acumen, as his credentials that makes him qualified for office \u2013 H. Ross Perot<\/a> being the best known example in my lifetime (\u201cI just want to get under the hood and fix things.\u201d).\u00a0 So what\u2019s wrong with this picture?<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re forgetting is that the goal of business \u2013 commerce \u2013 is NOT the goal of the government. I\u2019m finding it a little hard to articulate the goals of government that are not objectionable to someone out there, so I\u2019ll suggest that, if only currently, the goals of government are to protect society from outside intervention; and regulate the internal interactions of society, individually and collectively, such that, well, colloquially, everyone is equally unhappy; or that everyone is justly, according to their actions, treated.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine agrees<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m no more enthusiastic about Fiornia\u2019s candidacy than I was about Cain\u2019s. The Republicans should nominate a candidate who has successfully governed a state or who has mastered public policy issues, including foreign policy, while serving with distinction in the U.S. Senate (note: co-sponsoring amnesty legislation with Chuck Schumer doesn\u2019t count as serving with distinction).<\/p>\n

My sense is that Fiorina is actually running for vice president. She\u2019s more than intelligent enough to know that (1) she can\u2019t win the presidential nomination but (2) the nominee will be tempted to name a female running mate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ex-colleagues and other industry observers are dubious<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cShe put herself ahead of the interests of the company and I fear she would do the same as president,\u201d Jason Burnett, a grandson of the late HP co-founder David Packard and a member of the Packard Foundation board of trustees, told the Guardian. \u201cI don\u2019t want her to do harm to this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

HP\u2019s longtime director of corporate communications, Roy Verley, said his ex-boss alienated colleagues with a \u201ccult of Carly\u201d that put self-promotion first.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe didn\u2019t know what she was doing and couldn\u2019t deliver on her promises,\u201d said Verley, who left HP in 2000.<\/p>\n

The notion of a successful Fiorina reign at HP, he said, was \u201cfantasy\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Her website is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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