McCain to campaign for Carly Fiorina

[redcommander]

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2010/04/mccain-to-campaign-with-fiorin.html

I've pretty much lost all respect for the man.

[SvenssonRS]

Well, that's great news for the Carlyfornia campaign. They're getting help from a man who is becoming increasingly likely to lose his seat to a whackjob. Such wonderful campaign news. [/endsarcasm]

[Lunar]

McCain isn't THAT likely to lose his reelection.

This stoey is funny because McCain fired Carlyfornia from his campaign for being incompetent and saying McCain supported birth control being covered by insurance plans when he opposes it and having a second gaffe where she said he couldn't run a large business.

[Eraserhead]

They make a great couple, imo.

[Torie]

Oh sh**t. Why oh why? Fiorina is simply not in Campbell's category in any dimension that I respect. I repeat, Campbell was a college classmate of mine, and smarter than me, indeed perhaps the smartest of our class of about 500. And then we both went to business and law school, and well, he achieved considerably more than I did, with all of that, although I managed to make do. What I like most about Campbell is that he is a thoroughly decent human being, which is rare in the political class. He wants to accomplish something, not be someone, because he is grounded, and does not need celebrity props to achieve self esteem.

[SvenssonRS]

Oh sh**t. Why oh why? Fiorina is simply not in Campbell's category in any dimension that I respect. I repeat, Campbell was a college classmate of mine, and smarter than me, indeed perhaps the smartest of our class of about 500. And then we both went to business and law school, and well, he achieved considerably more than I did, with all of that, although I managed to make do. What I like most about Campbell is that he is a thoroughly decent human being, which is rare in the political class. He wants to accomplish something, not be someone, because he is grounded, and does not need celebrity props to achieve self esteem.

I wouldn't worry. McCain's about 50% likely to get tanked by Hayworth anyway. Obama didn't help Coakley, and McCain won't help Fiorina.

[Lunar]

Oh sh**t. Why oh why? Fiorina is simply not in Campbell's category in any dimension that I respect. I repeat, Campbell was a college classmate of mine, and smarter than me, indeed perhaps the smartest of our class of about 500. And then we both went to business and law school, and well, he achieved considerably more than I did, with all of that, although I managed to make do. What I like most about Campbell is that he is a thoroughly decent human being, which is rare in the political class. He wants to accomplish something, not be someone, because he is grounded, and does not need celebrity props to achieve self esteem.

I wouldn't worry. McCain's about 50% likely to get tanked by Hayworth anyway. Obama didn't help Coakley, and McCain won't help Fiorina.

Well, endorsements have a limited effect anyway, but most notably for Fiorina it signals a clear go-ahead for national donors predisposed towards what McCain wants, generates positive mentions for her in the news, and possibly opens the door for McCain-Fiorina events that would draw larger crowds and more news coverage that Fiorina herself could create.

It won't win the election for her, but it's a great endorsement for her to have.

[Lunar]

Oh sh**t. Why oh why? Fiorina is simply not in Campbell's category in any dimension that I respect. I repeat, Campbell was a college classmate of mine, and smarter than me, indeed perhaps the smartest of our class of about 500. And then we both went to business and law school, and well, he achieved considerably more than I did, with all of that, although I managed to make do. What I like most about Campbell is that he is a thoroughly decent human being, which is rare in the political class. He wants to accomplish something, not be someone, because he is grounded, and does not need celebrity props to achieve self esteem.

I still wonder if he's suited to being a Senator though.  He's a reasonable, pragmatic person, but would he be an effective legislator in the Senate or be drowned out by the background noise?

Either way, he's a decent person who seems to have realistic ideas about government. 

[Badger]

Oh sh**t. Why oh why? Fiorina is simply not in Campbell's category in any dimension that I respect. I repeat, Campbell was a college classmate of mine, and smarter than me, indeed perhaps the smartest of our class of about 500. And then we both went to business and law school, and well, he achieved considerably more than I did, with all of that, although I managed to make do. What I like most about Campbell is that he is a thoroughly decent human being, which is rare in the political class. He wants to accomplish something, not be someone, because he is grounded, and does not need celebrity props to achieve self esteem.

I wouldn't worry. McCain's about 50% likely to get tanked by Hayworth anyway. Obama didn't help Coakley, and McCain won't help Fiorina.

But McCain will help her (somewhat) for the GOP primary.

[redcommander]

I would like to know why so many Republicans are still willing to vote for her after she nearly destroyed HP.

[TheGlobalizer]

I would like to know why so many Republicans are still willing to vote for her after she nearly destroyed HP.

This baffles me, too.  Whitman I get; Fiorina, not so much.

[Lunar]

I would like to know why so many Republicans are still willing to vote for her after she nearly destroyed HP.

She has Washington connections due to her work on the McCain campaign, her fundraising for other candidates [I think], and her ability to self-finance what the establishment largely thinks will be a losing campaign, even though she says she won't self-finance.  I think they also like the idea of running a female against Boxer. 

I have a hard time thinking of a candidate with a worse biography than Carly Fiorina though.  I mean, Boxer's oppo book is probably 50,000 pages long, with the golden gem "silver bullet"-esque attack ads already written surely numbering in the dozens.  Oliver North running in CA would probably be less vulnerable than Carlyfornia.