Former HP CEO Fiorina: chances of presidential bid 'higher than 90 percent'
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - Former Hewlett-Packard Co Chief Executive Carly Fiorina on Sunday said the chances of her running for U.S. presidency were "very high" and she would announce her plans in late April-early May.
Fiorina, speaking on Fox News Sunday, put the chances of her running for president in 2016 at 'higher than 90 percent' but said she could not yet announce the bid as she was working to establish her team, get "the right support" and financial resources.
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)QuestionAlways
(259 posts)and an early test of how powerful a factor that will be. She is as good as any of the other jokers running in the Republican primary, and may very well end up being their VP candidate.
Botany
(70,614 posts)Carly did so well at HP that stock price went up when they annouced she
was leaving.
broadcaster75201
(387 posts)nt
cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)Hoppy
(3,595 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)the balloons!
calimary
(81,527 posts)I'm always fascinated by political cartoons and how they just repeatedly nail the faces of the people they draw. Faces, facial expressions, quirky features like scott walker's weird smile, huckabee's pouchy jowls, paul ryan's smirk, ted cruz's Gumby-like cheeks, jaw, and nose, rand paul's brillo pad hair, bobby jindal's - uh, well, bobby jindahl's EVERYTHING... GENIUS renderings!!!! Totally "genius-y"! DANG!!!!!! And there's ol' chuck todd in front. Rendered to perfection. DANG!
Whoever created this one is a TRUE artist.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)I have also been fascinated by these artists and their ability to not only draw the face, but capture their projected personalities. Mad Magazine was always great like that with their illustrations. Particularly this one (which is just hilarious when you look at all the people depicted) -
calimary
(81,527 posts)And there's Alfred E. Newman!
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)This is a great picture!!
Thanks for putting it here.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)is the depiction of Cruz and Ryan like the theater's "comedy and drama" masks.
Heywood J
(2,515 posts)What a great way for Mitt Romney 2.0 to start the airing of her dirty laundry.
Cartoonist
(7,323 posts)She took quite a drubbing when she ran here in California. I guess she thinks she can do better nationally. She would enter the race knowing she wouldn't get CA's electoral votes. Of course, that's true for all repubs. They can't even win statewide here in CA.
calimary
(81,527 posts)Don't assume they're not targeting California. They would give their right arms and legs to get our motherload of electoral votes.
NBachers
(17,149 posts)Their dismal failure campaigns put lotsa money into plenty of pockets here in California.
Wring 'em dry, I say!
bemildred
(90,061 posts)PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)CanonRay
(14,121 posts)before failing miserably in the White House. Lets not go there again.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)with the same result as everything else she's done.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Or was it op money?
OP = other people's
LibDemAlways
(15,139 posts)Vinca
(50,318 posts)Can't she take up sailing or something? Mitt's got a nice place on a lake she could visit.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Car elevator though. Boys ONLY ages 12 to 80. Last time she visited Mitt and family she found herself holding a shovel behind a dancing horse Ann was riding.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)yeah, she's got a chance!
Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)Meg Whitman dusted it up with Jerry Brown and failed. Carly Fiorina locked horns with Senator Barbara Boxer.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,478 posts)Meg Whitman is now the CEO at HP, the company Carly Fiorina 'sank', and it looks like Meg's bombastic decisions are starting to make Carly Fiorina look like a fucking genius when she was at the helm.
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Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts). . . and will be published in time for the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary?
harbinger07
(14 posts)How can a decision be 90% made?
It's not like a weather report where predicting into the future needs a probability.
valerief
(53,235 posts)PSPS
(13,621 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)off the bottom of the ratings pile.
calimary
(81,527 posts)I think when you look up dingbat in the dictionary, her picture's probably there.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)lancer78
(1,495 posts)who once stated that no americans have a right to a job, or something like that?
sabbat hunter
(6,838 posts)was
There is no job that is America's God-given right anymore. We have to compete for jobs as a nation.
She is a big time pusher of expanding the H-1B program, which would give more jobs to people coming from overseas.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Historically, that is.
sabbat hunter
(6,838 posts)I don't know why she is such a darling of the right. She is consistently ranked as one of the worst CEO's of all time. I believe that her performance as CEO has made it harder for women to move up to top exec positions, and break the glass ceiling of the old boys club
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I think she (and others on the right) fancies herself as the "Anti-Hillary". Like most conservatives, she is completely blind, deaf and dumb regarding her own inferiority and delusional nature.
calimary
(81,527 posts)running mate. Figured - okay, WE got a woman, TOO!!!! SEE? SEEE???? And that'd be that.
They figure just as long as somebody comes out in a skirt and they're not a Scotsman, that'll be enough. The same limited-thinking attitude george herbert walker bush expressed when he picked the hapless, pathetic dan quayle as his running mate. Noted quayle's physical attractiveness and quipped - "that'll be one for the ladies." Like that's all we care about. Haul out some cute guy and we're HAD, 'eh? That made me angry. "So THAT'S what you think of women voters? THAT'S all you think we care about?"
They'll get their cardboard cutout females and stand 'em up there onstage for all the cameras and networks to see, and they probably figure that'll be that. Just further proof of how tragically they fail to connect with women, and what we really DO care about. And why their numbers with women continue to be less than desirable.
Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)The HP products I got prior to Fiorina's reign as CEO worked and lasted until obsolete with new technology. The products during and after her destruction of the company, were defective and HP would not stand behind their jumk.
I think the board gave her around $20 million just to leave, so they could try to recover from her damage.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)year and a half-long medieval-studies degree (medieval lit? no Bisclavret jokes?)
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/speeches/fiorina/caltech04.html
jmowreader
(50,567 posts)Today's two part question: who the hell decided someone with a Medieval Studies degree was the right person to run an electronics company, and can I get about twenty pounds of whatever he was smoking at the time?
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Go for it, Carly! You have nothing to lose!!
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Another female in her territory. All the ole boys like Sarah. Tingle! Tingle!
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Little Tich
(6,171 posts)I guess well see more of them in the future...
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)Whoops, that's not for a few more days.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)She's out of touch with reality, dreaming dreamy dreams, and living in a fantasy that will never materialize.
4Q2u2
(1,406 posts)Last edited Mon Mar 30, 2015, 01:26 PM - Edit history (1)
Lucent, she almost killed HP, she did kill Lucent Tech and walked away with 65 million dollars.
This was AT&T's tech division spun off. Her income padding schemes was pretty much fraud.
Stock went from one of the strongest in all of the world to worth pennies. My Father in Law worked for them for 42 years. When he was medically retired on his death bed from Brain Cancer, he had lost 95% of his pension value.
"While the H-P episode is better known, Fiorina was involved in a much more damaging business disaster, one that America will continue to pay for for generations; the destruction of the Bell Laboratories. Beginning in 1995, Fiorina took over as the head of corporate operations of the AT&T spinoff, Lucent Technologies which included the Bell Labs"
http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/186-186/3463-the-job-killing-touch-how-carly-fiorina-wrecked-hewlett-packard-and-the-bell-labs-and-set-american-science-decades-back-by-decades
http://usphoenix.net/science,%20technology/what_really_happened_to_lucent_t.htm
Beacool
(30,253 posts)Let alone ever become president.