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SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 05:33 PM Feb 2016

Is There Anything Left For Carly To Fail At?

How the fuck do these Idiots continue to maintain their positive image? Why is Carly still considered successful, and regarded as someone who ever had even a 5% chance at becoming President.

She FAILED at HP, just like Meg Twitman

She FAILED in her CA Senate Campaign....like Meg failed miserably running for CA Governor.

Now she FAILED to break 5% in the repub caucus/primary.

Think that's enough to put a stake in her? Or perhaps she is like the boogeyman. And you know what they say, "You Can't Kill The Boogeyman."

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Is There Anything Left For Carly To Fail At? (Original Post) SoCalMusicLover Feb 2016 OP
As Brit humorist Peter Cook once said... longship Feb 2016 #1
How about HP? n/t Paper Roses Feb 2016 #2
How about Lucent, prior to being recruited by HP? Brother Buzz Feb 2016 #7
Yes: Pals with Stinky The Clown Stinky The Clown Feb 2016 #3
Showing she has a closer relationship with her husband than Hillary? Xipe Totec Feb 2016 #4
She also failed at which Democrat to attack in her announcement. pampango Feb 2016 #5
I Wonder If This Piece of Garbage SDJay Feb 2016 #6
But, but, their 'Pink Slips' are suitable for framing Brother Buzz Feb 2016 #8
Hah! SDJay Feb 2016 #10
Teh intertubes? KamaAina Feb 2016 #9
Time to cash in. She will take the Huckabee/Palin "time slots" on Fox News. nt TeamPooka Feb 2016 #11
She seems like a competent pet owner Bucky Feb 2016 #12
She's got to be a dog person. KamaAina Feb 2016 #13
I wouldn't trust her with our pets. BTW, the cats own us!! madinmaryland Feb 2016 #14
She lasted one semester at Stanford Law School malaise Feb 2016 #15
Oh wait M....that's what her ex-husband talks about -- her switching Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2016 #23
Nice read here malaise Feb 2016 #25
She could try to jump the Snake River Canyon on a rocket bike. NightWatcher Feb 2016 #16
No rocket bike Mendocino Feb 2016 #30
I sure hope mercuryblues Feb 2016 #17
well, she can now go home to the hubby she claims to enjoy being with so much. (chuckle) KG Feb 2016 #18
She failed at her first marriage after she cheated on him. B Calm Feb 2016 #19
Classic example when... Xolodno Feb 2016 #20
A lemonade stand n/m ProudToBeBlueInRhody Feb 2016 #21
k UTUSN Feb 2016 #22
and she failed to ruin Planned Parenthood! ericson00 Feb 2016 #24
Broadway musical? daleanime Feb 2016 #26
She's a class act! In her mind all of her failures are great successes! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2016 #27
Hopefully failures that Carly can do in the peace and quiet of her own home PufPuf23 Feb 2016 #28
A charm and grace school. /nt SDjack Feb 2016 #29
Dog catcher? (n/t) xenoturkey Feb 2016 #31
Karaoke? Mendocino Feb 2016 #32
"Her presidential aspirations dashed upon saltpoint Feb 2016 #33

longship

(40,416 posts)
1. As Brit humorist Peter Cook once said...
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 05:41 PM
Feb 2016

"I've learned by my mistakes and I can repeat them exactly."

(Gees! This is the second time in that many minutes that I have been able to post that quote here. What does that say about the sad state of our political affairs?)


Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)
7. How about Lucent, prior to being recruited by HP?
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 06:10 PM
Feb 2016

HP paid her golden parachute at Lucent and she was gone by the time the company crashed, but her irresponsible lending practices at Lucent created the perfect storm failure.

http://recode.net/2015/08/30/time-to-revisit-carly-fiorinas-business-record-before-hp-yes-so-lets-begin-with-lucent/

Stinky The Clown

(67,807 posts)
3. Yes: Pals with Stinky The Clown
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 05:50 PM
Feb 2016

Actually, it is most likely she already has failed, even in advance of any official attempt.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
5. She also failed at which Democrat to attack in her announcement.
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 05:55 PM
Feb 2016
Carly Fiorina Ends Campaign — With A Parting Shot At Hillary Clinton

Carly Fiorina dropped out of the Republican presidential race on Wednesday, bringing to a close a candidacy that started out in the minor leagues before shooting up to the pros — at least for a while.

She also had a message to young women voters — a sort of last shot against Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton, and her campaign surrogates’ fumbled attempts to get them into the tent against Bernie Sanders.

To young girls and women across the country, I say: do not let others define you. Do not listen to anyone who says you have to vote a certain way or for a certain candidate because you’re a woman. That is not feminism. Feminism doesn’t shut down conversations or threaten women. It is not about ideology. It is not a weapon to wield against your political opponent. A feminist is a woman who lives the life she chooses and uses all her God-given gifts. And always remember that a leader is not born, but made. Choose leadership.

Toward the end of her campaign, she began making direct attacks on Hillary and Bill Clinton’s marriage and alleging that Hillary Clinton herself belonged in prison for her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state, and for fundraising by the Clinton Foundation.

http://www.nationalmemo.com/carly-fiorina-ends-campaign-with-a-parting-shot-at-hillary-clinton/
They have more to worry about from Bernie than from Hillary.

Brother Buzz

(36,444 posts)
8. But, but, their 'Pink Slips' are suitable for framing
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 06:19 PM
Feb 2016
Fiorina Cheers Self Up By Firing Campaign Staff - reveals Andy Borowitz

NEW HAMPSHIRE (The Borowitz Report)—After suffering a poor showing in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday night, the former Hewlett-Packard C.E.O. Carly Fiorina cheered herself up by firing her entire campaign staff, fired staffers confirm.

Minutes after the returns started coming in, revealing that Fiorina had no chance of making a respectable showing, the former business executive acknowledged that she was “sad at first—but then I realized that every failure is an opportunity, and in this case I had an opportunity to give some people the axe.”

After delivering pink slips to her entire campaign staff, Fiorina said, “I started feeling better already.”
“That’s the one thing you have to understand about Carly Fiorina—she doesn’t stay down for long,” she said.

Fiorina said that she had “no regrets” about running for President, despite her dismal showing in New Hampshire. “I got to downsize a lot of people tonight, and that makes me a winner,” she said.

www.borowitzreport.com
 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
23. Oh wait M....that's what her ex-husband talks about -- her switching
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:23 PM
Feb 2016

majors from her father's choice for her - law - to business. Her ex said DO NOT BELIEVE her - she will say anything to get what she wants. Especially the rags to riches - I was a secretary and I rose to president. She ONLY took the secretarial job to make ends meet when she switched majors. *assuming what you are referring to - about law school

phew.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
16. She could try to jump the Snake River Canyon on a rocket bike.
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 07:29 PM
Feb 2016

Evel Knievel tried and missed but I bet she could do it.

mercuryblues

(14,532 posts)
17. I sure hope
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 07:52 PM
Feb 2016

her campaign staffers were smart enough to get pre-paid this time around. It took he 4 years to pay them the last time she lost. Even then, she only paid them because it wouldn't have looked good to start a presidential campaign while owing money to her last campaign employees.

 

ericson00

(2,707 posts)
24. and she failed to ruin Planned Parenthood!
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:27 PM
Feb 2016

not even her own party ultimately bought into her lies (they dropped it, tho too long after)

PufPuf23

(8,785 posts)
28. Hopefully failures that Carly can do in the peace and quiet of her own home
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 11:36 PM
Feb 2016

and on her lonesome and maybe the rest of us can forget her.

I have never actually met anyone that claims to support her.

saltpoint

(50,986 posts)
33. "Her presidential aspirations dashed upon
Thu Feb 11, 2016, 04:14 AM
Feb 2016

the rocks of Iowa and New Hampshire, Ms. Fiorina said in an interview that she heard the tolling of the agrarian bell and wolud return home to tend to her flock of demon sheep."

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