• Carly Fiorina

    CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina Rolls Out “Hot Air” and FailedSenator.Com

    California U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina and her FailedSenator.com website

    At this afternoon’s California Republican Party convention, U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina relaunched her campaign with a new website and a bold, innovative movie.

    Wannabe Senator Carly Fiorina rolled out a full-throttle, multi-media extravaganza for her turn in the limelight Saturday, the Republican state convention’s most boffo box office so far.

    Taking full advantage of her scheduled time on the convention program, Team Carly essentially relaunched her campaign, with a production that included music by Van Halen, a free-swinging speech delivered by the candidate channeling Miss Scarlet, and a new, mad genius video by gonzo media consultant Fred Davis.

    “We call it the announcement on steroids,” Davis told Calbuzz.

    In contrast to Meg Whitman, whose Friday night speech to delegates may be found in the dictionary under “somnolent,” Fiorina’s talk was energetic, punchy and well-crafted.

    Wielding a hand mike, she paced a small stage erected in the middle of an audience of 500, wearing a bright red pencil skirt and matching ruffled jacket as she punctuated a rip job attack on Barbara Boxer with steady chops of her left hand (NB: Opposed on principle to all forms of sexism, Calbuzz mentions her wardrobe choice solely as a contextual element in describing the production values of her convention appearance).

    Assailing Boxer on issues from abortion to the Delta smelt and the 1992 House banking scandal, and never mentioning her primary rivals, Hurricane Carly insisted she is the only Republican who can defeat the 18-year incumbent.

    She portrayed Boxer as a narcissistic, ineffective captive of Democratic special interests, from unions to “radical environmentalists, as she generated the only spontaneous enthusiasm in the room thus far in the convention (not counting the boos when GOP moderate Sen. Abel Maldonado was introduced).

    “Isn’t it ironic that Barbara Boxer would work so hard to protect a two-inch fish, but not lift a finger to protect the unborn,” she said at one point.

    “Bring ‘em on,” she thundered at another, after cataloging liberal special interests that will fight to defend the incumbent.

    Here is the video:

    Fred Davis, the Carly for California campaign media creator has redeemed himself for the Demon Sheep faux pas. Now, will Fiorina broadcast parts of this ad on television?

    My bet is yes.

    Looks like a good day for the Carly Fiorina campaign.


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    • DeVore also told reporters that he, like Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown, is a student of Sun Tzu, the Chinese military strategist. But the Orange County Assemblyman said that's not all that he and the Democratic gubernatorial candidate have in common. They also apparently share some genes.

      "I'm embarrassed to say — and he'll deny it — that I'm a distant cousin of Jerry Brown," DeVore said. "My mom remembers seeing him at a family gathering in the Bay Area when she was 12 and he was 15. She told me he was weird even then." Brown's campaign has yet to respond to an inquiry regarding the alleged relation to DeVore and his childhood demeanor.
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      Fancy that……

    • In conjunction with her speech at today’s luncheon, Carly also released a short movie entitled Hot Air, chronicling Boxer’s failed tenure as a U.S. senator. The creative and attention-grabbing movie describes Boxer’s bitter partisanship, her ineffectiveness and her 18-year long record of support for tax hikes, job-killing legislation and big-government spending. It also contrasts Boxer’s failed tenure with Carly’s record of success as a proven problem-solver, fiscal conservative and the only candidate in this race who has ever created a job, met a payroll or had to cut a budget. A new Web site, www.FailedSenator.com was also launched to not only feature Hot Air, but also to engage voters in learning more about the clear choice in this race.
    • Wannabe Senator Carly Fiorina rolled out a full-throttle, multi-media extravaganza for her turn in the limelight Saturday, the Republican state convention’s most boffo box office so far.

      Taking full advantage of her scheduled time on the convention program, Team Carly essentially relaunched her campaign, with a production that included music by Van Halen, a free-swinging speech delivered by the candidate channeling Miss Scarlet, and a new, mad genius video by gonzo media consultant Fred Davis.

      “We call it the announcement on steroids,” Davis told Calbuzz.

      In contrast to Meg Whitman, whose Friday night speech to delegates may be found in the dictionary under “somnolent,” Fiorina’s talk was energetic, punchy and well-crafted.
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      Carly Fiorina's campaign is starting to gather momentum……

    • Carly Fiorina unveiled her campaign’s newest strange video production, Hot Air, over lunch at the California Republican convention Saturday. The seven-minute extended commercial, posted below, follows the elongated head of Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) crashing up through the U.S. Capitol dome and traveling west across the country and over California, rambling about electricity, taxes and a host of other issues.

      The video was clearly an attempt to replicate the nationwide buzz generated by creator Fred Davis’ other production, Demon Sheep (skewering Fiorina’s Republican opponent Tom Campbell), earlier this election cycle. Davis' new video, while certainly weird, is not as organically off-kilter as Demon Sheep, but its introduction served to highlight the contrast between Fiorina and Meg Whitman, the other female Republican ex-CEO running statewide this year, who spoke in the same room the night before.
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      This video is being hailed as artsy, edgy and is creating lots of buzz

    • The ad man who brought us Demon Sheep — along with King Rat and other strange political fauna — is back with another outlandish production.

      Call it Fred’s Zeppelin.

      Actually, it’s Barbara Boxer — blown up and distended to grotesque proportion — floating malevolently over a travel-scape of California: vineyards, palm trees, sandy beaches, Victorian homes, the Golden Gate Bridge.

      The ad for GOP Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina features plenty of creator Fred Davis’ trademark humor, from the ominous opening scene, which portrays the U.S. Capitol as something out of Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” to the finale, in which a pin-pricked Boxer sinks ignominiously into the sea.

      But there’s also plenty of venom packed into the seven-minute web spot. “A problem-solver…a problem-causer,” goes one compare-and-contrast between Fiorina and the Democratic incumbent.
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      Carly Fiorina knows how to create some buzz now doesn't she?

    • Mickey Kaus, a political blogger on the Slate website, filed papers Friday to challenge U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer in June's Democratic primary, saying the three-term senator is too tied to liberal interest groups.

      "I have no special beef with the incumbent," Kaus said in his announcement. "She is a state-of-the-art Democrat. But to be state-of-the-art" in our party is not such a good thing anymore. State of the art" means the incumbent has learned to please the party's interest groups, often at the expense of the needs of average individuals and the party's own ideals."

      Kaus, who lives in Southern California and is the son of former state Supreme Court Justice Otto Kaus, has been especially critical of illegal immigration in his Slate column. He said his status with Slate remains uncertain with his decision to run against Boxer.
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      Democratic Party bigwigs are NOT going to be happy with this. But, will it drive more women D/S voters to the Democrat polls?

  • Barack Obama,  Day By Day

    Day By Day March 13, 2010 – Bite

    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    Ewwwww dead sister’s dentures and/or Obamacare – I don’t know what scares me the most?

    When the Congressional Democrat leadership and President Obama try to ram health care reform through next week, the ONLY slaughter you will hear will be Democrat members of the House and Senate. They will be the sacrificial lambs led to the Obamarare slaughter.

    The Republican Party moribund just a year ago is on the verge of a robust revival.

    Thanks Obama.

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