The dumbing down of Carly Fiorina

[Enrique]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/06/04/global_warming_carly_fiorina

Presumably, the former CEO of one of America's leading technology companies knows the difference between long-term worldwide profitability and product sales on one day in one store.

But apparently to win the Republican nomination for Senate in California these days, even a woman whose brain-power might have been a campaign asset has to pretend she doesn't know the difference between long-term global climate trends and the daily, local weather.

An unintentionally revealing new ad by former Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard chief who is favored to win next Tuesday's GOP primary, quotes Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer saying in 2007, "One of the very important national security issues we face, frankly, is climate change."

Carly then leaps in with this: "Terrorism kills, and Barbara Boxer is worried about the weather. I'm Carly Fiorina. I ran Hewlett-Packard. I chaired the external advisory board for the CIA. We've had enough of her politics. I'll work to keep you safe."

Fiorina's first sentence -- willfully pretending that being concerned about the threat of global warming is the same as being worried about whether it's going to rain today -- should disqualify anyone for higher office, especially in California.

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I suppose the good news for Fiorina is that pretty much the whole Republican Party is dumbing itself down on this issue, so perhaps nobody will notice her IQ drop. Just consider Charles Baker, the Republican candidate for governor of Massachusetts and a man who the Boston Globe has said "has a reputation as a smart guy." But asked in February whether he agrees with scientists that humans are changing the climate, Baker replied: “I absolutely am not smart enough to believe I know the answer to that question."

Perhaps that should be the bumper sticker of every GOP candidate for higher office: “I absolutely am not smart enough.’’

[Xipe Totec]

1. I'm Carly Fiorina. I ran Hewlett-Packard into the ground... nt

[Cant trust em]

8. How does someone with that track record think that they should be a US senator? nt

[liberation]

10. The more important question is: Why does a person who is worth millions aspire to a position

which pays much less?

why can't these people just take their ill gained millions and retire to some far away tropical island, and leave the rest of us alone. These people are not just sociopaths, who simply lack empathy, they are full blown psychopaths who can't really function unless they are damaging people. It is not as much about the money, it seems, but being in the position of making as much damage as they possibly can to others.

[customerserviceguy]

11. Not only that

she didn't bother to vote until fairly recently. And she thinks US Senator from a major state is an entry-level political job.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Almost Palinesque

[avaistheone1]

3. True.

Scary. I hope Carly doesn't tote a gun while she campaigns. She sounds unhinged.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. they all havwe that crazy look

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Interestng assumption..about the "dumbing down" part. It implies that originally

there was a higher level of intellect.

Based on the results of Fiorina's corporate leadership, at HP for example, I am not so sure that is a valid assumption to make.

[Caliman73]

5. There has been no "dumbing down" she is just dumb.

She is like W. She fails up. She ran HP into the ground in her tenure there. She screwed the pooch royally as a spokes person for McCain such that she left. She is not bright.

[Froward69]

6. Remember the GOP picks Presidents based upon the desire to "have a beer with them"

NOT brain power.

[KeepItReal]

9. Here's Carly in a nutshell

From CNBC and Portfolio Mag:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/30502091/Portfolio_s_Worst_American_CEOs_of_All_Time?slide=3