A reality based independent journal of observation & analysis, serving the Flathead Valley & Montana since 2006. © James Conner.
If Carly Fiorina weren’t running for President, she’d be giving TED talks on how to strut, prance, and BS your way into anything. She knows how to talk her way into a job — and how to do a job on the truth without cracking a smile or missing a beat.
In Wednesday’s Republican debate she defended her disastrous tenure at HP by asserting she increased HP’s top line, omitting her shrinking of HP’s bottom line — and she lied like the Devil about Planned Parenthood, then effortlessly doubled down on her slander when George Stephanopoulos called her out.
Fiorina is one of those public figures for whom the truth is just one option. She’ll have a hot run for a while, but this campaign will founder on the same reef on which her campaign against Barbara Boxer foundered: her appalling, irrefutably documented, record of personal greed and corporate incompetence that was told in a classic 30-second attack ad.
Her campaign needs a theme song. I recommend Mitch Ryder’s 1966 classic. His best performance can be watched only on YouTube, but this version approaches the same level of raffish energy.