Why Carly Fiorina Should Win California Senate Race
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Republican Senate Candidate Carly Fiorina (Creative Commons)
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina was back on the campaign trail Thursday, after being hospitalized for an infection. With Boxer leading Fiorina in the polls 48% to 46%, the time to make up your mind for Tuesdays election is now.
Who you choose will be decided by how content you are with the state of affairs in the current government. While Boxer has been a senator for nearly 18 years, Fiorina is new to the political game. Many of Fiorina's critics point to this lack of experience in politics as a reason to vote against her. Yet, aren't "career politicians" a problem with our government to begin with?
The goal of a politician is to get elected. However, at what point does getting elected take precedence over doing the right thing? If power corrupts, then we should want politicians to be replaced as often as possible. The experience factor is just the practice of learning to lie more convincingly and making promises to campaign donors.
This is exactly the kind of thing we want to avoid.
Carly Fiorina is just another American citizen who wants to give Washington a try, with the hopes to battle corruption and follow her moral compass.
Do I think she will remain pure for her entire career? It’s difficult to say, but history is against her. That is the reason we have terms for each elected official. Barbara Boxer has had 3 terms as a senator and has contributed to the unemployment rate (12.4% in California) and poor economy by voting for higher taxes, unemployment benefit extensions and the health care bill.
California, which has the fourth highest state debt in the U.S, doesn’t realize how bad of shape it’s in. Moreover, when it comes to high taxes for businesses, the state is the second worst, trailing only New York. This causes business owners in CA to relocate and drives out jobs and taxpayers. That explains California being ranked 49th for low unemployment (out of 51, including Washington, D.C.).
Moroever, it appears Sen. Boxer has let her prestigious title go to her head. Boxer snapped at Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh when he addressed her as “ma’am” instead of calling her “Senator” during a Seante hearing last year. This is the type of government arrogance that has been insulting to all Americans.
Once the people vote a candidate into office, that representative develops an attitude that they are better than everyone else. And once that mannerism develops, the elected official no longer becomes representative of the people; instead, they often think they know better than those who elected them to begin with.
Fiorina has been the CEO of a large company (Hewlett Packard) and was able to run that company in order to maximize profit. If government was run as a private business (in other words, if they had to make a profit), then I believe the deficit would be non-existent, employment opportunities would rise and competition would drive technological improvements. Instead, the government has been trying to spend its way out of a recession and borrow its way out of debt.
Boxer is a part of the government who got us into this mess and she isn’t helping get us out of it. I trust Fiorina’s business skills will come into play when she is forced to deal with California’s crumbling economy.
On Nov. 2, California voters will have a major choice to make. Whatever you do… choose wisely.
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I applaud Neon Tommy for having the courage to run these sort of right-wing editorials. I don't agree with them but very happy to see the diversity of opinion elevated and not suppressed.
Boxer wouldn’t be in such a tight race if she wasn’t cause of millions of aerospace jobs leaving the state.I am totally disappointed with all the Democrats and Republicans in congress.
The party line and the lobbyists are only what is important to them.
We the people must have a strategy to really ''CHANGE'' our government
Do you really think the same people that created this mess are the ones to get us out of it ?
Mostly all of Congress is inept, corrupt and self serving with absolutly no solution to fix the mess they created.
But Congress keeps borrowing and spending more than we the taxpayers can ever pay back,There is only one tried and proved way to fix our country, do the exact opposite of what you are doing now to destroy it.
Live within your means ! Cut spending, Cut government and Cut taxes, its that simple
We can thant the Dem congress for the mess
Barny Frank should be in jail
Bush caved to the democrat congress, which was not smart
The Obama way is the steep path to total ruin
Not a good time for America
The Chicago way takes the whole country down
If you want someone that supports the Oligarchy, someone to give big tax breaks to the Oligarchy
, big business, let big business outsource jobs oversea with the middle class holding the tax burden for the tax breaks for the Oligarchy and big business, then writing or supporting a bill that will add trillions to the national debt and go to work for them and get millions in contributions and a million dollar salary, then vote for this trash.
If you want someone that supports the Oligarchy, someone to give big tax breaks to the Oligarchy
, big business, let big business outsource jobs oversea with the middle class holding the tax burden for the tax breaks for the Oligarchy and big business, then writing or supporting a bill that will add trillions to the national debt and go to work for them and get millions in contributions and a million dollar salary, then vote for this trash.
How can Carly follow a moral compass when she doesn't have one?
Ordinary citizen? Are you joking? She's a multi-millionaire ex-CEO of a very large corporation where she outsourced jobs, laid off employees, moved manufacturing to China. This is what we need in the Senate? Government is not a business and can never be run like a business. And, IMHO, it was the previous Republican administration, that Boxer was not part of, that ran our economy into the groud. Historically big business leaders have made financial matters worse in this country: Hoover elected for his business acumen took us into the Depression, is just one example. Carly herself said that Sarah Palin did not have the skills to run a big business, as big business and politics were not the same, they need different skill sets. Joe Corzine, former Goldman-Sachs executive who had a one-term run as governor of New Jersey believed his managerial skill set would be helpful in government, it wasn't. I don't believe Carly or Meg have the right skills or the heart to to senator/governor and hope the voters of CA get it right on Tuesday.
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Any Republican that is given any sort of political power is a negative thing in my eyes. Their fundamental theories are incorrect and dangerous for a society that must now focus on moving into the future. We can't have people who don't believe in Abortion, we can't have people who side with Big Oil, and we can't have people who favor the rich through tax cuts. I myself have giving up on all things political as I believe the public has little to no effect on what transpires behind those closed doors in Washington DC. Enjoying your own life is more important than caring about something we have absolutely no effect on (via lobbyists, the electoral college, political "deals"). We only have one life to live and it shouldn't be wasted on these irrelevant issues.