Carly Fiorina: I am not a supporter of her, but she sounds decent in interviews

[Matty]

I don't think she is a "joke" candidate like Trump, Carson, etc. I was watching an interview with her on Andrea Mitchell today and she gave solid, concrete answers to questions.

She, so far, seems stronger than I thought she would. Sounds very erudite and specific when she speaks, and that is needed.

Do I think she goes far? No way. But I do think if it wasn't for her disastrous HP episode, it could have been interesting.

Anyone else agree with me? Not saying she is going to be a player, just that she sounds like less of a cartoon character than I thought she would.

[Fuzzy Bear Loves Christian Missionaries]

Fiorina's problem is that her tenure at Hewlett-Packard is her prime qualification for the Presidency.

[Torie]

Fiorina's problem is that her tenure at Hewlett-Packard is her prime qualification for the Presidency.

Well said.

[Vega]

I'm sure I would sound decent if my campaign people told me to say talking points too. That's not her, she's following a script.

[King]

Her experience as a marketer makes her good at finding the right talking points.   There's no depth to her and, while she tries to claim she's not another politician, her laughable defense of her HP tenure makes her just as much a liar as the worst of them.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

She can pretend to be a reasonable human being for brief periods on TV. She's still a joke.

[Indy Texas]

Her experience as a marketer makes her good at finding the right talking points.   There's no depth to her and, while she tries to claim she's not another politician, her laughable defense of her HP tenure makes her just as much a liar as the worst of them.

Basically - I can't think of better training for being a political candidate than working in marketing for several years and then serving as CEO of multiple public companies. You have to look and sound convincing and competent without necessarily being so, and you have to be able to condense big, complex ideas into short, simple sound bytes.

She's an expert at selling things. There is a reason Oliver Stone opened the movie Nixon with that old-timey corporate training video where the guy says, "And remember - what you're really selling is yourself!"