Former HP CEO Fiorina: chances of presidential bid 'higher than 90 percent'

[IDemo]

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]

1. Her bid will be "Compaq" worthy...

[QuestionAlways]

42. Why not? She is a woman

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]

2. This is from the Onion isn't it?

Carly did so well at HP that stock price went up when they annouced she
was leaving.

[broadcaster75201]

3. *sings "Send in the Clowns"* nt

nt

[cstanleytech]

21. The Republicans should install a revolving door for the sheer number of those that they have. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

23. Or better, plays

[Hoppy]

24. Pay attention, for Chrissake. The clowns are already here.

[BumRushDaShow]

26. She must be

the balloons!

[calimary]

33. DAYUM! Who created this image? Those caricatures are BRILLIANT!!!

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]

35. It was from here

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/01/jeb-and-mitt-bicker-over-top-seat-gop-2016

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]

46. This one's FABULOUS, too! LOVE IT!!!!

And there's Alfred E. Newman!

[Major Hogwash]

49. Holy Hannah!

This is a great picture!!
Thanks for putting it here.

[BumRushDaShow]

54. What's hilarious

is the depiction of Cruz and Ryan like the theater's "comedy and drama" masks.

[Heywood J]

4. Hedging, hemming and hawing.

What a great way for Mitt Romney 2.0 to start the airing of her dirty laundry.

[Cartoonist]

5. Really?

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]

31. And we have to make sure we KEEP it that way!

Don't assume they're not targeting California. They would give their right arms and legs to get our motherload of electoral votes.

[NBachers]

43. Maybe she could enlist Meg Whitman as her VP candidate

Their dismal failure campaigns put lotsa money into plenty of pockets here in California.

Wring 'em dry, I say!

[bemildred]

6. At last, a worthy successor to Bush. nt

[PoliticAverse]

7. Chances of her winning the nomination, lower, around 0 percent. n/t

[CanonRay]

8. We've already tried a President who failed at everything

before failing miserably in the White House. Lets not go there again.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. "Financial resources?" What happened to the 20mil HP gave you to take a hike?

[hobbit709]

20. She spent it running for Senate in CA.

with the same result as everything else she's done.

[Major Hogwash]

50. Was a lot of the money that she spent for her campaign her own money?

Or was it op money?

OP = other people's

[LibDemAlways]

10. Another delusional fool hops aboard the clown bus.

[Vinca]

11. I hate it when rich people pick politics as a hobby.

Can't she take up sailing or something? Mitt's got a nice place on a lake she could visit.

[Politicalboi]

40. He won't let her use the

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]

12. Failed in business, failed run for CA governor

yeah, she's got a chance!

[Brother Buzz]

17. Failed run for Senate, not Governor

Meg Whitman dusted it up with Jerry Brown and failed. Carly Fiorina locked horns with Senator Barbara Boxer.

[BillZBubb]

32. Yep got her confused with the other loser.

[Brother Buzz]

36. Even today, there's a lot of crossover confusion

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.

[Jack Rabbit]

14. Does this mean her autobiography is 90% complete?

. . . and will be published in time for the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary?

[harbinger07]

58. 90% ?

How can a decision be 90% made?

It's not like a weather report where predicting into the future needs a probability.

[valerief]

15. Another POS teases us with her imminent damage. nt

[PSPS]

16. A billionaire hasn't really "made it" without a vanity (and always doomed) run for president

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. Carson, Cruz, and Christie just got a boost

off the bottom of the ratings pile.

[calimary]

19. Oh Dear God...

I think when you look up dingbat in the dictionary, her picture's probably there.

[NCjack]

22. Carly has a diseased mind. What she did to HP, she wants to do to USA. nt

[lancer78]

25. Is this the same woman

who once stated that no americans have a right to a job, or something like that?

[sabbat hunter]

28. the exact quote

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]

51. HP has yet to fully recover from her crappy business decisions as the worst CEO they ever had.

Historically, that is.

[sabbat hunter]

27. a failed CEO

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]

29. God help us.

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]

34. I think that's another reason, a lesser reason really, that they picked sarah palin as mccain's

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]

30. Garbage

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]

37. I was at her Caltech commencement speech: it was half-remembered crap from her

year and a half-long medieval-studies degree (medieval lit? no Bisclavret jokes?)

http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/speeches/fiorina/caltech04.html

[jmowreader]

53. This I was not aware of

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?

[lastlib]

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Go for it, Carly! You have nothing to lose!!

[Politicalboi]

39. Mama Grizzly ain't gonna like that

Another female in her territory. All the ole boys like Sarah. Tingle! Tingle!

[YOHABLO]

41. It's pathetic that she believes people like her. Most R candidates are delusional. Carly go away.

[Little Tich]

44. This is the person behind the “Demon Sheep” ad.

I guess we’ll see more of them in the future...

[davidpdx]

45. April Fools!

Whoops, that's not for a few more days.

[SoapBox]

47. Hell No!

[Monk06]

48. Running for president has become a reality show opportunity. No talent and a license to print money

[Major Hogwash]

52. Chances of her campaign crashing like the Hindenburg 'higher than 99%'

She's out of touch with reality, dreaming dreamy dreams, and living in a fantasy that will never materialize.

[4Q2u2]

55. This should not be forgotten

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]

56. And it's higher than 90 percent that she won't get her party's nomination.

Let alone ever become president.

[Corey_Baker08]

57. This Is The Republican Party's Alternative To Hillary Clinton

[KamaAina]

59. Carly 2016. She'll do for the country what she did to HP!

[yurbud]

60. good--I hope she wastes A LOT of her own money