Carly Fiorina Hits the Trail With an Eye on 2016

[DonViejo]

A businesswoman with a mixed record might be the GOP’s only shot at a female presidential prospect.

BY EMILY SCHULTHEIS

September 24, 2014 MEREDITH, N.H.—She's been to New Hampshire three times and South Carolina once. She's heading to Iowa this weekend, and then North Carolina and Michigan after that. Clearly, Carly Fiorina is thinking about 2016.

But is anybody thinking about Carly Fiorina?

The former Hewlett-Packard CEO and 2010 Senate candidate is hitting the campaign trail in the lead-up to Election Day for her new super PAC, teaching activists and politicians how to talk to female voters—and building herself a grassroots base in a half-dozen electorally important states in the process.

While her efforts are focused on helping the GOP win control of the Senate in November, political strategists say Fiorina is doing all the right things to prep for a 2016 bid. And the message she's touting is a preview of the kind of role she could play, if she runs.

So will she run?

"People ask me that a lot, so if you get asked that a lot you have to think about it—you have to consider it," Fiorina told National Journal. "I'm flattered by the question and I have to consider it."

The possibility of a Fiorina candidacy—which at this point is, of course, still just a possibility—speaks to the dearth of Republican women considered to be presidential prospects.

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http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/carly-fiorina-hits-the-trail-with-an-eye-on-2016-20140924

[Wellstone ruled]

1. What a EGO!!!!!

Way to go,destroy a company and that qualifies you for Political Office. Forgot Georgie Bush did it. Oh well.

[cascadiance]

3. Spent a LOT of money in her senate race too that didn't work out either!

RotsaRuck! NOT!

Yeah, I remember some of her BS when she tried to run HP too! Screwed up a deal she had with a company I worked for and her stupid changes to the product it affected messed up HP's product as well!

The woman feels like she has enough money to have some form of entitlement, but her life experience certainly doesn't show anything!

[CK_John]

15. She didn't destroy any company, she rescued all those shares tightly held by the founding family.

Moved all those shares into general circulation, that was her job.

[CentralMass]

16. She destroyed multiple companies, Lucent, Compaq,HP, and DEC is a sense.

[immoderate]

2. Carly Fiorina?

--imm

[spanone]

4. she gives me the cooties.

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. She's got a huge ego

[tech3149]

6. You go girl! Waste a few more million$ to lose big.

I hope there are more than a few out there willing to pump up her ego to make it a possibility.

[SomethingFishy]

7. The U.S.A. Where epic failure is rewarded.

And hard work is looked down upon.

[CentralMass]

8. just say no to Carly "we are poised for growth" Fiorina.

Wea

[winstars]

9. The only "running" she should do is at the track... She was TERRIBLE running for CA Senate...

Her best (worst) moment was when she said Sen. Boxer's hair style was out of date or some shit brained observation...

Bad CEO

Bad candidate

Go away please...

[CentralMass]

17. ..Bad human being as well.

[DisgustipatedinCA]

10. The GOP uses the Oeter Principle again?

Carly got her ass kicked in California. Time to fail upward and run for President.

[Terra Alta]

11. She's a joke.

Spent all that money on her Senate campaign and still came up short. Guess money can't buy everything.

[sendero]

12. I'd rather vote for..

... refried ectoplasm. She's a fucking idiot.

[Initech]

13. Gross. Last thing we need is another Meg Whitman.

And that was one of the ugliest, most expensive (and losing) campaigns in California history.

[Retrograde]

14. A Rmoney/Carly ticket?

I voted in the 2010 Republican primary just so I could vote against Carly twice. She did so poorly in her home area, Silicon Valley, because the more you get to know her the more you despise her. She's known around here as the person who ran Hewlett-Packard into the ground.

[CentralMass]

18. Ding dong the wicked witch is dead was literaly sung in tha halls of HP the day she got axed