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applegrove

(118,778 posts)
Mon Sep 21, 2015, 09:56 PM Sep 2015

Carly Fiorina is the candidate the GOP deserves: Her record of bending the truth & denying her failu

Carly Fiorina is the candidate the GOP deserves: Her record of bending the truth & denying her failures fits the party perfectly

by Sean Illing at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/carly_fiorina_is_the_candidate_the_gop_deserves_her_record_of_bending_the_truth_denying_her_failures_fits_the_party_perfectly/

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The other glaring problem with Fiorina’s story is that it’s totally false. Even if you accept that success in the business world translates to success in politics (and you shouldn’t), the fact remains: Fiorina was a terrible businesswoman. In the last presidential debate, Donald Trump referenced a study by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at Yale’s School of Management, which refuted Fiorina’s revisionist history of her time at HP. Fiorina, predictably, dismissed Sonnenfeld, saying he “had it out for me from the moment I arrived at Hewlett-Packard.”

Sonnenfeld responded yesterday in Politico by laying out the facts:


In the five years that Fiorina was at Hewlett-Packard, the company lost over half its value. It’s true that many tech companies had trouble during this period of the Internet bubble collapse, some falling in value as much as 27 percent; but HP under Fiorina fell 55 percent. During those years, stocks in companies like Apple and Dell rose. Google went public, and Facebook was launched. The S&P yardstick on major U.S. firms showed only a 7 percent drop. Plenty good was happening in U.S. industry and in technology.

Fiorina has said repeatedly that her struggles at HP were the result of her “challenging the status quo” and that she led the company through a remarkably difficult time. But, as Sonnenfeld notes, virtually everyone involved with HP at the time agrees that Fiorina’s tenure was an abject failure, as did “Forbes, Fortune, Business Week, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and leading tech industry journals.”



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Carly Fiorina is the candidate the GOP deserves: Her record of bending the truth & denying her failu (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2015 OP
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The GOP may deserve her brer cat Sep 2015 #2

applegrove

(118,778 posts)
1. And:
Mon Sep 21, 2015, 09:58 PM
Sep 2015


http://www.salon.com/2015/09/21/carly_fiorina_is_the_candidate_the_gop_deserves_her_record_of_bending_the_truth_denying_her_failures_fits_the_party_perfectly/

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This is the record, whether Fiorina acknowledges it or not. Republicans, credulous voters that they are, have yet to question Fiorina’s resume. Indeed, because she sounds poised and impressive (which is the least you’d expect of someone with her experience), conservatives have flocked to her after the first two debates. This is depressing but not unexpected.

Fiorina, in so many ways, is a perfect fit in the new GOP. She plays fast and loose with the facts; she has a selective amnesia when it comes to her own failures; she distorts the record when it suits her; and she memorizes just enough details and platitudes to appear smart to stupid people (listen to her talk about foreign policy and you’ll see what I mean).

In short, Fiorina’s entire campaign narrative is a farce, and a rather obvious one. Among Republican voters, however, that won’t hurt her candidacy one bit. This is, after all, a party that believes George W. Bush “kept us safe” and that Obama caused the global recession, neither of which are true.

Fiorina, in other words, is right where she belongs.

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brer cat

(24,605 posts)
2. The GOP may deserve her
Tue Sep 22, 2015, 12:32 AM
Sep 2015

but the rest of us don't. I hope she flames out soon and is not on anyone's short list for VP.

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