{"id":185872,"date":"2014-07-28T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T01:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/28\/the-demon-sheep-lady-seriously\/"},"modified":"2014-07-28T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T01:47:00","slug":"the-demon-sheep-lady-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/28\/the-demon-sheep-lady-seriously\/","title":{"rendered":"The Demon Sheep Lady? Seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"219\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wo_Ejfc5hW8\" width=\"390\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>No, Really, Carly <b>paid<\/b> to make this ad<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Carly Fiorina is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/run-2016\/2014\/07\/28\/carly-fiorina-taking-2016-temperature\">looking at running for President<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in California in 2010, is diving back into electoral politics.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">For now, her work is focused on pushing back against Democrats&#8217; claim of a Republican-led &#8220;war on women&#8221; in the 2014 midterms. But her recent moves in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire have convinced some she&#8217;s eyeing a bigger prize come 2016. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Fiorina slipped into the Granite State last week to promote her new political group, dubbed UP for &#8220;Unlocking Potential.&#8221; Its mission is to engage women with new messages and combat the gaping gender gap that&#8217;s hobbling Republicans in races up and down the ballot. In addition to headlining a breakfast last Thursday for more than 200 GOP activists in the business and political spheres, Fiorina attended a GOP gala the night before honoring Joe McQuaid, the conservative publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader, the state&#8217;s largest and most influential newspaper.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Jim Merrill, a top adviser to Mitt Romney&#8217;s 2012 New Hampshire campaign, is interpreting the largely under-the-radar moves as a sign of someone that&#8217;s at least pondering a White House bid.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;I thought of it as a testing-the-waters exercise and she got a great response,&#8221; Merrill says. \u201cIt was very clear to me she&#8217;s someone taking the temperature of New Hampshire.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It wasn&#8217;t Fiorina&#8217;s first trip to New Hampshire this year, either. She was the keynote speaker at the Northeastern Republican Leadership Conference in Nashua in March, when she declared, &#8220;The highest calling of leadership and of our nation is to change the order of things. It is time.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Carly Fiorina, who came to prominence as a senior executive responsible for sales at Lucent, where she was touted as a success, but it all <a href=\"http:\/\/%3Ciframe%20width=%22390%22%20height=%22219%22%20src=%22\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wo_Ejfc5hW8%22%20frameborder=%220%22%20allowfullscreen%3E%3C\/iframe%3E\">imploded into a morass of shady accounting and fraud shortly after she left<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Then became CEO at HP, where her purchase of Compaq (and DEC, which had been purchased by Compaq) turned out to be largely a disaster, and when she was fired, employees at multiple locations of HP spontaneously singing &#8220;Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we have her &#8220;Demon Sheep&#8221; Senate campaign. (See the attached vid)<\/p>\n<p>Damn!&nbsp; The Republicans have a wicked thin bench for 2016!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Really, Carly paid to make this ad Carly Fiorina is looking at running for President: Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in California in 2010, is diving back into electoral politics.For now, her work is focused on pushing back against Democrats&#8217; claim of a Republican-led &#8220;war on women&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,978,977,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}