McCain-backed GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina hearts Jesse Jackson — and radical gender politics
As if California GOP Senate candidate Carly Fiorina’s massive bailout-supporting economic advice for John McCain wasn’t bad enough (reminder from yesterday’s column: “In California, McCain’s PAC supports former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina – a celebrity name with deep pockets of her own, massive media exposure, and a checkered business record. Fiorina served as the economic adviser to McCain, who supported the $700 billion TARP bailout, the $25 billion auto bailout, a $300 billion mortgage bailout, and the first $85 billion AIG bailout.”), now comes the revelation of that she has had a long political love affair with Jesse Jackson.
It’s on tape, via Neil Stevens of RedState: “When Carly Fiorina speaks on the campaign trail here in California, running to be the Republican nominee to unseat Barbara Boxer, she tries to prohibit recording of her speeches. However somebody snuck in an audio recorder to an event yesterday, and these clips seem to show why she would do that. The real, private Carly seems to be a bit different from the public, ‘conservative’ Carly.”
Listen for yourselves as she coos about “the Reverend Jesse Jackson” and panders to gender quota-mongers at a women’s conference held last week:
Philip Klein at the American Spectator has a partial transcript (and be sure to click the link for more instances of Fiorina slobbering over Jackson):
“And I thought about something that the Reverend Jesse Jackson said to me several years ago. He very graciously came to the offices of Hewlett Packard to visit me, because we were doing some work together for his Rainbow Coalition. And he said to me, ‘You know, Carly, every game is better when everybody gets to play.’ And I thought it was such a great way of describing why everything is better when all people, regardless of color or nationality or gender, get to play. Sports are better. Business is better. Politics are better. The world is better when everybody gets to play in things that matter.”
Fiorina continues to cast herself as a “mainstream conservative.” But what exactly is “mainstream” or “conservative” about heaping praise on one of this country’s greediest and unrepentant race hustlers?
The San Jose Mercury News reports:
In a speech that became public Friday, Fiorina fondly recalled the Rev. Jesse Jackson — a controversial figure across the political spectrum but anathema to many on the right — “very graciously” visiting her at HP years ago, when the two worked together to boost diversity among Silicon Valley’s work force.
“I like to remind people that women are not a constituency — women are a majority,” Fiorina said during her Wednesday night speech in Sacramento, hosted by California Women Lead, a nonpartisan group that encourages women to seek public office. “Women are the majority of voters and we will never have a truly representative democracy unless women make up half, at least, of our elected representatives.”
At a time Fiorina is seeking to appeal to conservatives, the most reliable voters in Republican primaries, her remarks could prove costly. Critics on the right, including one of her opponents in the GOP Senate primary, argued that her speech smacked of identity politics and bristled at her ties to Jackson.
“To equate representative democracy with group power is a very dangerous and wrongheaded way of thinking,” said conservative Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, R-Irvine, who is running against Fiorina. “It’s the kind of gender and racial identity politics we fight with the left over, and it’s the kind of thinking that leads to quotas.”
Fiorina’s response?
A spokeswoman for Fiorina, Julie Soderlund, said she had nothing to apologize for. “It goes without saying that as a mainstream conservative, Carly Fiorina strongly disagrees with Jesse Jackson’s political agenda,” Soderlund said. “Her remarks were focused on the importance of women recognizing and seizing opportunities to serve in public office.”
Really? “It goes without saying?” The trust-me-I’m-a-mainstream-conservative card is hard to swallow when Fiorina has such a scant record to back her up.
There’s a disturbingly long and recent collection of Fiorina quotes endorsing Jesse Jackson. Where are the public quotes from Fiorina ever disavowing Jackson for threatening businesses that didn’t capitulate to his racial bullying?
Reminder:
Jackson has repeatedly threatened businesses and corporations, black and white, with boycotts, racially biased criticism, and (implicitly) outright violence, if they refused to enrich him or his organizations. Among the companies: Coca-Cola, Texaco, Viacom, AT&T, Boeing, and Coors. In addition, his organizations have received at least $50 million from the U.S. government.
To site some specifics: Coca-Cola was induced to award a lucrative distributorship to Jackson’s half-brother, Noah, in order to protect itself from racially based attacks by Jackson (Noah is currently serving a life sentence in prison for arranging the contract murder of three business associates); Anheuser-Busch awarded a beer distributorship to Jackson’s sons, Yusef and Jonathan, for the same reason; President Jimmy Carter directed $7 million in government funds to PUSH; President Bill Clinton sent Jackson on a junket to Africa that cost American taxpayers $42 million; Jackson opposed the merger of Viacom and CBS, and attempted to force Viacom to sell the UPN Network to Percy Sutton, in whose Inner City Broadcasting company Jackson held $1.2 million worth of shares; and Jackson opposed the merger of SBC Communications and Ameritech until Ameritech sold its cellular business to a group headed by Chester Davenport, another Jackson friend.
Jackson has received literally millions of dollars for his Citizens Education Fund as part of negotiated settlements with companies he has frivolously accused of racist employment practices.
Jackson radicalized the political agenda of Operation PUSH, moving directly into the political arena to unseat the Chicago delegates of Mayor Richard Daley at the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami. He began his international political career later in the decade. In 1979, with President Carter’s blessing, he went to South Africa to speak against the apartheid regime; he made a controversial visit to Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat; and in 1983, alleging that President Reagan’s economic policies had severely impacted blacks, he made the first of his two runs for U.S. President. Despite the revelation by the Washington Post that Jackson (in a conversation with his campaign aides) had called Jews “Hymies” and New York City “Hymietown,” he received 3.5 million votes during the primaries, enough to guarantee respect within the Democratic Party and the chance to give a major speech at the 1984 Democratic National Convention.
Fiorina believes she is best suited to offer a contrasting vision to Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer — a feminist social engineer who panders to self-appointed liberal black leaders and treats minority conservatives who oppose Rainbow Coalition racialism with naked contempt.
She looks and sounds more like an echo, not a choice.
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Reminds me of a joke:
Writing on wall:
“No grils allowed”
Then someone wrote:
“No
grilsgirls allowed”Then someone else wrote: “What about us grils?”
LOL RINO’s TINO’s, whatever! LOL
Bumping Pasadena Phils post from #80. Learn it, know it, live by it! To hell with Carly and the rest of her ilk.
You are defending the party that stands for nothing. Who is the one not making sense? What is it exactly that you want us conservatives to agree with? We are very clear what we want. What do you RINOs stand for that should get us to support you?
Lose the GOP security blanket. We’re grown ups around here.
That is the standard that gave us the Bush Administration, McCain, Powell, and the Republican Congress that speny themselves out of power and “reached across the aisle.”
Rob, IMO we need a higher standard.
One characteristic of a RINO (the Bushes, McCain, Gingrich, etc.) is that they would rather have a democrat in power — name any office you wish — than a conservative any day. RINO does not mean conservative/republican lite, it means Demo-eunuch. It was RINO Bush I who gave us Clinton and RINO Bush II who gave us Obama, merrily eviscerating the Reagan legacy in preparation for the takeover. Looks like tea-partiers are going to have to occupy the streets for a long time to come.
Note: I sincerely hope Sarah won’t be campaigning for this ghastly Fiorina person, but one never knows these days.
Obviously if you think the republican party and conservatism stands for nothing, you are hopelessly clueless.
This is Sarah’s position too, BTW.
In MA, the supposedly “bluest of blue states, 52% of registered are non-affiliated independents. They are running away from the Democratic Party. Yet the Republican Party registrations continue to decline. How can that be? Why does it seem like the harder the GOP tries to appeal to moderate independents and conservative Democrats by supporting the Democrat agenda and attacking conservatives, the more independents there are? What’s wrong with that logic? Why would anyone be a Republican anymore? Political parties have to stand for something. Being the “lesser of two evils” is not a platform.
I must have missed that political ad where a conservative candidate said “vote for me, Im the lesser of two evils”.
well, she’s been acting this way for years, so we can’t blame it on “chemo brain”: looks like she’s a RINO, so i’m gonna start w*rking for Chuck, since Tom Campbell is just another Bay Area RINO too.
I said that the GOP is the party that stands for nothing. You chose to twist that into “GOP and conservative” in order to hurl a childish insult at me.
You are posting nothing but personal insults and twisted logic. Do you really think that will persuade anyone? Like your beloved party that stands for nothing, you are trying to make friends by positioning yourself as the stupid person who is not as stupid as the other person. That logic is what puts the “Stupid” in “The Stupid Party”.
For three years, the young attorney had been taking his brief vacations at this country inn. The last time he`d finally managed an affair with the innkeeper’s daughter.
Looking forward to an exciting few days, he dragged his suitcase up the stairs of the inn, then stopped short. There sat his lover with an infant on her lap!
“Helen, why didn’t you write when you learned you were pregnant?” he cried. “I would have rushed up here, we could have gotten married, and the baby would have my name!”
“Well,” she said, “when my folks found out about my condition, we sat up all night talkin’ and talkin’ and decided it would be the lesser of two evils to have a bastard in the family than a lawyer.”
I can’t speak for Pasedena Phil, but IMHO the problem is that the GOP and conservatism are mutually exclusive terms.
For example, the platform of Reagan contained an “abolish the Department Of Education” plank. It was gone by Bush I, who said he wanted to leave a legacy of being “the Education President.”
This video sums up my view of government. Conservative is right, liberal is left.
That’s the attitude which got us Jeffords, Chafee, and Specter.
Though I dont agree 100% with your statement, at least that is an argument that makes sense. I fully agree that there are far too many RINO’s in the Repub Party. But hopefully Brown’s win will be a template for the types of candidates we want to see running under the Republican banner, and that RINO’s and their wannabe’s, like this candidate from California, will take careful heed.
“…GOP and conservatism are mutually exclusive terms.”
WERE. Yes. ARE? No longer. One of the positive impacts of the last year and election is a distinction has been made and made clearly.
Republican party was doing fine until daddy Bush sold out America to Al-Sabahs, sent American tax $, blood and lives for Wl-Sabah wahhabbis, followed by Al-Saud-puppet son who went after Saddam, covering-up for the same wahhabbis, who murdered Americans on 9/11.
Take a closer look…. Bushs laid the foundation of Wahhabbi assault on America and rest (Iraq, Afgian war, while doubling Saudi visas), is history.
Sorry but GOP decline came from within it’s own ranks.
MarcoPolo
Thanks for posting the link to the video.
She’s a stinking, arrogant liberal in conservative clothing, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. She’ll never win anyways because she looks like Sinead O’Connor, who everybody hates.
I give up. Can you say anything without contradicting yourself? Brown is a RINO!!! Having read your posts over time I can only conclude that you comment here only to undermine rational discussion.
Do you see a problem with the following statement? “I believe women have an unalienable right to abortion on demand because abortion is murder and murder is wrong.”
Phil,
I have seen him as a RINO and a Presidential u. Can we wait until the gy has at least warmed his chair in the Senate?
We have had RINOs run as conservatives. He might be a conservative who ran as a RINO.
Let’s see….
Give Scott Brown a break, but I wouldn’t waste the time on Carly Fiorina, Boxer opponent or not. She’s a failed CEO, so her business acumen is questionable. She’s cool with Jackson’s Rainbow Coalition shakedowns, which is crap. She says its better “where everybody gets to play” — but with who’s money? Hey, Michelle Bachman’s playing, and so is Sarah Palin. Fiorina is running to be the Olympia Snow of the West. Arnold in drag. Who needs it?
Fiorina ran HP into the ground. I’m not surprised she’s a leftist RINO.
MarcoPolo,
That video is f*cking brilliant. That puts it all right there. I’m gonna either convert people with it or ID the enemy.
Awesome… I’m going to copy it an make it viral.
I’m completely okay with Brown as senator and supported him. I am not afraid of him as a RINO because as I said earlier, he is not the sharpest tack in the box and by endorsing McCain right out of the box, any possibility of further advantage he might have gleaned from our help was negated. He is now just another ho-hum Republican who will struggle to retain his seat in 2012. That is better that Coakley.
It is now important to focus on taking down McCain just to eliminate any delusions RINOs might be entertaining about McCain’s GOP party being back in the drivers seat. By demonstrating that Brown and Palin endorsements have no weight in legitimizing RINOs, we keep ourselves in the driver’s seat.
We will soon decapitate the leadership of both parties one after the other. It’s the same strategy that was successful in taking down that other corrupt organization, the Mafia.
JT
I’m so going to steal your line “I’m either going to convert people with it or ID the enemy.”
Yes, it is a brilliant video and it’s on it’s way to the inboxes of a couple million people by now. Thanks again to MarcoPolo!
24Klady,
I’ve never been able to encapsulate my beliefs in 10 minutes. This is the best video, I’ve ever seen. Its what I feel in my soul, but haven’t been able articulate expertly.
I know many people that think they believe in the founders and the Constitution, that talk like a RINO. They talk like McCain.
This video makes it clear. Your either are for America or against it. Pick a side.
And doesn’t the last few minutes of the video sound like the government we currently have?
DeVore needs to get the kind of support that Brown got. The Tea Party movement can mobilize millions, people and dollars. Also Hayworth in AZ, knocking off King RINO McAmnesty would be AWESOME!!
There are House races around the country that the RNC is attempting to keep in the weasel column against the conservative candidate. We must beat the weasels and the communists aka Democrats.
JT #131 – oh yes it does sound so much like our current congresscritters & prez. When you identify a person or group that’s fuzzy on the Constitution, and makes excuses how it can be/should be bent to accomodate certain groups or issues they must be called out on it. Sadly, with politicians we never hear that side of them until after the election.
I’m still laughing about your line though!
MarcoPolo, great link! Thanks!
This will be viral. I make my living on viral internet marketing.
Michelle, is this all you got? Pretty weak, especially from you.
Wade #136
Ok, I’ll bite – you forgot the /sarc tag right? If you were serious, do enlighten us with your thoughts via links to your blog that gets thousands of hits a day on how you’ve determined this post is weak…..I’m thinking the subject is very important to people in CA, AZ, and other states where there is a determined effort to retire or replace weak leaders they’ve elected and found wanting.
This is a great video, Marcopolo.
This is why the predominant liberal voting teacher does not teach American history as it is, but twist into a new reality or don’t teacher history at all.
This produces a Democrat voter, many grow up to realize liberals suck. But enough buy the fraud and stay Democrats.
Thanks Wade! Your eloquent arguments and logic are irrefutable. I was almost fooled by Michelle by you really straightened me out. I sure wish I had your gift with debate and rhetoric.
Just look at the PUMA’s for instance. They got all bent when that fraud Coakley was losing to Brown.
Speaking of upcoming Senate seats held by Democrats, me thinks Shcumer is feeling a little vulnerable now.
JT – PUMA’s got all bent first about Hillary losing to ‘Bambi and then got all excited about Palin – they’re all over the map. Those poor babes need to watch MarcoPolo’s video…
Oops, do I need to add a /sarc tag?
http://www.ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/top_stories/112526/schumer-seeks-visa-limits-for-people-from–dangerous–countries“>
*emphasis mine
And that’s the point – thank you for making it, PatriotRider.
I keep saying how it’s easy – too easy – to rip people apart. What we should be doing is build people up.
We need to encourage those who are interested in public service, who have the passion and the vision to serve – or we need to be that person who’s willing to put it all on the line to serve.
And that begins at the local level, not just the big, attention grabbing state and federal elections.
Ms. Fiorina exemplifies far too many Republican candidates for higher office:
She wants to tell people how to live, what’s good for them, and to enforce it. Ethics are a sometime thing, for she hired private investigators to find out who the “leaks” were in the HP boardroom prior to her being fired with an enormous (unearned) golden parachute. What she did to HP I wouldn’t want her to have ANY opportunity to do to the rest of the nation. Go sit on a beach somewhere Carly, let the rest of the world wrestle with the idiocy of California.
Until they amputate NYC and let it float out into the Atlantic, it will always be the leftist tail that wags the more conservative upstate dog. And upstate has also been bleeding population. It’s possible Shumer might manage to lose, but I don’t see it happening. In the first place, there doesn’t seem to be anybody to run against him except Pataki (Ugh!) or a guy that looks like he’s running for high school class president (Lazio).
My blog has squat to do about this, stick to the subject. Never mind, Boxer would be a better choice based on all the terrible Carly, after all she is only an echo of Boxer and Boxers being the same has more TIG.
I tend not to support candidates whom I could visualize just as easily running as Democrats without changing their philosophy. Fiorina is a perfect example of the breed. So are McCain, Grahamnesty, Bloomberg, et al. In fact, I’m personally quite certain that if the current incumbent were a Republican, Fiorina would be running as a Democrat.
Wade, I’m in the middle of making homemade meatballs/pasta for dinner. But, I will be back….tah y’all!
Although I would normally agree with you txvet2, as MA proved, anything is possible. Lazio didn’t fair too poorly against Hillary for the Senate seat in 2000. He may have actually beat Hillary if it weren’t for his late entry to the race.
In addition, the entire population of NYC are not far left. There are even some Conservatives on the Upper West Side (although they never acknowledge themselves in public). Both NY Senate seats are up and can be taken, as well as the Governors seat. All that’s needed are good canidates.
Ohhhh Yummmm!
It’s CA for crying out loud. The state that gave us Arnold. ‘Nuff said
Fiorina is Dede Scozzafava’s older sister. They are bred from the same sow pig… Liberalism
Only had to watch the opening of the video to know it’s a good one. I can’t tell you how often I have to correct people on the subject of democracy vs republic – in the case of the United States, a Constitutional republic.
Reagan – and his Education Sec. Bill Bennett – did indeed try to abolish the federal department of education, but I recall Bennett saying in an interview not too long ago that it was Congress that kept them from accomplishing that goal – though IIRC he and Reagan did manage to keep it from expanding.
Understand, I’m not defending George H. W. for what he did in removing that from his platform, but I do think it was apparent that that particular bureaucracy was here to stay by the time he ran for the presidency.
Still, that didn’t mean that he had to grow it bigger as he did – and as George W. did as well.
Education has been, both by tradition and statute, the purview of local governments, but over time, first the state and then the federal government have encroached on that authority.
She sounds like a great fit for California.
In fact, we have two RNC-backed Dede Scozzafava’s running in CA. We also have the clueless uber-feminist Meg Whitman running for governor.
24Klady,
I thought the PUMA’s had principle, but they are about voting for women… period. They loath Obama. Brown would be the best for their cause, but the rare PUMA that supported Brown was vilified.
I like checking the anti-Obama pulse. But its true liberalism is a mental illness.
PUMA’s complain about the corruption in their party but will vote for someone who will perpetuate it, if they have the right body parts.
HI MARCOPOLO–#117–Thank you for the link to the excellent video on the forms of government. Clear, concise, accurate. The part on how Rome fell after changing from a Republic to a Democracy closely parallels our situation in the U.S.A. now.
***
And we have the modern barbarians–the Jihidis at the gates now. And the liberal / socialist / statist / marxist / communist fifth column “inside the wire” trashing our country now. Deja Vu all over again. Rome chose quite poorly–and so are we choosing poorly now.
***
John Bibb
***
The one thing to note here about Hayworth is that he has evidently again announced that he is going to announce! He still isn’t a candidate at this point. And the primary election isn’t more than 5 or 6 months off. That is not a lot of time to organize a state-wide campaign organization and raise enough money to challenge a millionaire.
I hope somebody can knock off McCain but it will be difficult for Hayworth to win if he isn’t an actual candidate. And every week he waits will only make it more difficult. At least he seems to have quit his radio show to free himself up for a race.
It will take a strong TEA Party effort to unseat McCain but nothing is impossible after Massachusetts.
Ay, there’s the rub.
I admit, though, Lazio does look a little older than the last time he lost.
Research the circumstances of her leaving HP and that will tell you all you need to know about her.
To paraphrase Obi Wan “This is not the Republican you are looking for…”
Fiorina is Feinstein without the fat ass
oh and in keeping with my scorched earth policy against anyone who associates with McAmnesty, I now will never vote for this skinny Feinstein.
So, Fiorina thinks that women should “make up half, at least, of our elected representatives.” All righty then.
We have a biracial president who self-identifies as black. Blacks only make up about 13% of the population, and whites somewhere in the 60% range. By her reasoning we should never elect a black president, because s/he can never represent the majority. This is great, identity-politics-bean-counting isn’t so bad after all.[/sarc]
Oh yay! Just when I’m at a point where I’d like to be proven wrong about the GOP, here comes another rat to the fold who rather vindicates all of my ugly opinions about them. I swear–WHAT IN THE HELL possesses these cretin liberal scumbags to want to run for office as Republicans, when there is not ONE iota of difference between them and the OTHER liberal scumbag who owns the seat that they want to run FOR?
I don’t like Scott Brown, who suddenly has become a darling of the GOP. I don’t like his being a PIMP for his sex-pot daughters, and I think there’s a point in the Huffington Post’s portrayal of a man who would do such a thing. I think that it is unbelievable that more “conservatives” are not horrified with who this guy is, and are not worried that he’s likely to become the face of “his party.”
But that’s not all, now THIS hag comes along to join Brown, McCain (who is suddenly in trouble with retaining his senate seat after decades of “service”), and a distressing number of RINO’s who are essentially dyed-in-the-wool liberals of every possible kind who corrupt what remains of any integrity in the Republican Party. And what’s happening with Sarah Palin and her campaigning for Mr. “my friends across the aisle”-McCain? I can’t help be be dubious about the whole lot of them.
It makes me think that Arlin Specter really didn’t have to leave the GOP. There are so many of his kind who populate it, why take the trouble of resigning his membership and REjoining the Democrats? So long as there is no true party “on the other side” to object to the liberal poison that is destroying mankind, hope fades.
Really, I wish all the RINO’s in the Republican party would either become Democrats so that it could at least APPEAR to be a contrasting choice for voters.
Oh, pleeeeeeeeeeeeease! Yes!!!
Let’s apply this phrase [sic!] to force e.g. white basketball players (independent of their skills…that would be raaaaaaaaacist!, you know..) onto the “monocultural” teams out there – of course, with the commensurate salary – in the name of making the world better and “social justice.”
Just to watch them squirm…
Heh.
“Hayworth is that he has evidently again announced that he is going to announce!”
You are splitting hairs. JD is running.
JD is part and parcel of our 21st Century ABM Treaty:
Anybody But McCain. There are several proposed and announced candidates but I am not yet familiar with them.
In John McCain’s never ending quest to Rockyfeller the Republican Party and marginalize Conservatives he is supporting
RINOs in both California and Colorado in opposition to Conservatives. I have a deep suspicion his California gambit is to help his friend across the isle Babs Boxer. It is a Liberman over Alan Schlesinger again. McCain opposes abortion on demand but supports Liberman who supports abortion on demand, supports gay marriage and supports ObamaCare.
McCain should follow Specter into the Democratic Party.
Well, my point is, in fact Hayworth, at this very moment, IS NOT YET AN OFFICIAL CANDIDATE for Senate in Arizona.
People keep saying he is going to run. And he keeps saying he is going to run. But, every list I check he shows he isn’t an official candidate. Let’s check back on his status on Friday and see.
But, he doesn’t have all year to make up his mind! It takes time to get a campaign running. It takes time to raise money. Maybe he is planning to raise it all in a week like Scott Brown…
I agree that the RINO/neocons really messed up the party from the top down. My point was that a strong party can afford a couple RINOs from traditionally blue states. It is when we are over run with RINO’s from Texas and South Carolina that we get into real trouble.
I’ve been a bit of a political orphan for a while. I used to consider myself an absolute Republican, but over time, my ideals, and the core principles of the Republican party seemed to diverge. I’m for small government (something that simply cannot be said about either Bush, McCain, and many other Republicans), and for government staying out of the lives of citizens. Fiscally, I’m hardcore conservative (but that’s not very Republican these days…being for less spending), and I really lean Libertarian on a lot of privacy issues.
What complete, unfettered nonsense. You know when sports are better? When the best players get to play, with absolutely no regard for skin tone (or gender, etc). The key is ability, not diversity.
Carly Fiorina sounds like an idiot. Would Jesse support forcing the NBA to play 3 white players at a time, per team, as that is closer to the racial makeup of our country? Jesse, we’ll be waiting for you to come out in favor of that. I won’t hold my breath.
I do not share the scorched-earth approach to driving away RINOs. I’d like to, but when I look at the situation right now in the Senate and how crucial a single vote can be, I am overwhelming with moderation.
That being said, I strongly believe that the GOP needs to show some ideological backbone and work to encourage conservatives and discourage RINOs who merely find the party expedient. I’d put Carly Fiorina squarely in that latter category. Also, as infuriating as RINOs can be once they are elected, I am mindful that it is almost impossible to dislodge a seated RINO and — if it were possible — the result would almost surely be to turn the seat over to the Dems. This after an internal fight of great bitterness.
So I more or less accept the lady RINOs from Maine and urge that we concentrate our purifying energies on not letting any more RINOs get elected, starting with the stinkin’ RINO, Carley Fiorina. Granted, some allowance must be made for the state or district the candidate is running in. Certainly I’d accept a more moderate candidate from CA than from, say, SC (which has an awful RINO senator right now…one who should have been weeded out in the primary process). But Fiorina is nothing but an opportunistic RINO whore, and she should be fought tooth and nail in the primary. I might even vote against her in the general, preferring to try again next cycle rather than seeing her become entrenched.
(Regarding seated RINOs like Snowe and Collins, it is important to maintain an edgy attitude toward them, even if we are prepared to remain in bed with them. They need to feel that they are always on the edge of alienating a critical mass of conservatives such that they could lose their next election to the Dem. It is a delicate and unpleasant business.)
Yeah, she’s a RINO. So what? What do you expect in California? Another Reagan? Good luck.
Hell, I’d vote for a Tom McClintock in a heartbeat, just to balance the lefty loons in the legislature, but he’s got zero chance of winning.
RINO is honestly the best we can do right now.