CA-Sen: Carly Fiorina Endorsed By Another Conservative Republican United States Senator – James Inhofe
Californian Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina holds a roundtable discussions with reporters in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
From the Press Release:
Citing her strong leadership skills, tested business acumen and common-sense approach to politics, U.S. Senator James W (actually his middle initial is M). Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) today enthusiastically endorsed Carly Fiorina’s campaign for U.S. Senate.
“I am honored to receive the support of Senator Inhofe, a dedicated public servant who has spent years defending the principles of limited government, individual freedom and personal responsibility. These are beliefs I’ve held for years, and I look forward to working with Senator Inhofe to create jobs and bring fiscal accountability back to Washington,†said Fiorina. “Over the last 18 years, Barbara Boxer has failed to stand up for California’s families, businesses and communities. Especially given these difficult economic times, Californians need a true advocate representing them in the United States Senate.â€
Inhofe, who was recently voted “Most Outstanding Conservative U.S. Senator†by Human Events Newspaper and the American Conservative Union, said, “Carly Fiorina is a true fiscal conservative who has made controlling our federal deficit one of her top priorities. Her common-sense approach and sharp business skills make her exactly the kind of leader we need in the U.S. Senate to help address our ballooning deficit and get our nation’s economy back on track.â€
Earlier this month, Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma), Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine), Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Senator Jon Kyl (R-Arizona), Senator John McCain (R-Arizona), Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Senator Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) endorsed Fiorina’s bid for U.S. Senate.
And, although Fiorina’s views on climate change and federal enviromental policy differ from Inhofe’s, it is noteworthy that he endorsed her candidacy over Assemblyman Chuck DeVore anyway.
Here is a video clip of Fiorina talking about climate change and energy policy.
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9 Comments
ml
It look like Ms. Boxer is going to win again.
geekmom
@carlyforca is just another RINO. I’m voting for Chuck Devore. Have you heard this woman? OMG she’s no Republican!
Flap
And, Carly Fiorina is not a RINO. She is a lifelong Republican whose father was appointed by President Nixon to the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
She and her husband have donated 10’s of thousands of dollars to the Republican Party.
Sorry, but you are dead wrong.
jakeease
Au contraire, Fiorina IS a RINO, Flap. You are the one who is dead wrong. Having your father appointed to the bench by Richard Nixon hardly makes one a conservative. But at least it helps me understand some of the factors in play in her rapid rise from secretary to CEO at Hewlett-Packard.
Fiorina supported the Wall Street bailout–same as Boxer. DeVore has been against it from the start.
Fiorina supported Cap & Trade, aka Crap $ Tax-same as Boxer. DeVore has been against it from the start.
Fiorina supported putting Sotomayor on the Supreme Court-same as Boxer. DeVore has been against it from the start.
Fiorina had no comment regarding bi California tax increases in 2009. DeVore has been against it from the start.
Fiorina and her husband donated 10’s of thousands of dollars to PACs such as HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY PAC. They in turn donated to a long list of Bemocratic candidates including Barabara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Nancy Pelosi, Howard Berman, Max Baucus, Joe Baca, Jane Harman, and the Democratic Congressional Committee. The only donations she made directly to a Republican were to John McCain (RINO) while she was a member of his committee.
She is a lifelong Republican who frequently didn’t vote. The list of endorsers above is almost all RINOs.
I have been taking a long look at all 3 Republicans, and Chuck DeVore is the only solid conservative and non-RINO in the race.
Flap
@4 You sound like DeVore’s talking points.
The most laughable point you make is about the HP PAC. I have given thousands over the year to my Dental PAC and they ave in turn donated to some Democrats (remember they do hold some sway in the Congress and the White House from time to time) so does that qualify me or my fellow GOP dentists as all RINOS?
Hardly.
On the Wall Street bailout and Cap and Trade you are wrong and i direct you over to Fiorina’s website to read her positions on those issues.
Oh one more, I doubt anyone would consider Dr. Tom Coburn or John Kyl as RINOS. They both have endorsed Fiorina.
jakeease
Hi Flap,
I wrote a response Monday, then FireFox hung before I could send it. I’ll try again.
First, you say I “sound like DeVore’s talking points.” Ah, the overused “talking points” rebuttal. But thank you. Perhaps if I try harder you’ll accuse me of sounding like Reagan’s talking points. However that may be, I try to be well-informed about all 3 candidates. DeVore’s the only one where I see any consistent conservatism. Having heard him speak and take questions, I don’t think he has “talking points” in the sense that, say, liberals do. Back in August in the heat of the townhalls on healthcare, a liberal friend posted a link on FaceBook to aid her friends in convincing the mis-informed to support Obamacare. The link? to a page at whitehouse.gov with 10 talking points that everyone had heard a thousand times; all of them false one way or another. No links at all to supporting info. Scraped from the teleprompter. When DeVore is asked a question on governance, he responds with a clear unambiguous position, firmly rooted in the Constitution and gives his reasons from first principles.
You say my point about HP PAC is laughable. Are you and your fellow GOP dentists RINOs because you give thousands a year to your dental PAC? Your dental PAC, like the HP PAC is a lobbying agent. Contributing doesn’t “make” you a RINO any more than it makes Democrat dentists RINOs. If it “makes” you anything, it makes you a very well-heeled pro-business dentist, incidentally registered as a Republican. But your argument is a strawman. I never said she was a RINO BECAUSE she gave large sums to lobbyists. YOU brought up her large donations in support of your contention that she is not a RINO. You gave 3 points to support that: 1) she is a registered Republican; 2) her daddy was appointed to a liberal bench by a progressive Republican; and 3) she gave tens of thousands of dollars to the Republican party. Not one of those does anything to disclaim that she is a RINO.
There are tens, nay, hundreds of thousands of conservatives who give $5 or $10 only because more is outside the budget. Conservatives have re-registered from Republican to Decline To State in droves in frustration with the party
Being pro-business hardly suggests that anyone is a RINO; indeed, it’s a good thing. But it is insufficient to demonstrate conservatism.
You direct me to Fiorina’s website for her positions (ahem–talking points) on the bailout and Cap&Trade. Thanks; I direct you to Free Republic:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2445159/posts.
“….I think you are confusing John McCain’s positions by painting it as hands off, free market, laissez faire. I think that has been perhaps true of the Bush administration the last four years in terms of a wild, wild west with no regulation. But it is definitely not what John McCain believes. I think the better model for John McCain is Teddy Roosevelt, who believed that there was a robust role for government. And John McCain has consistently believed there is a role for government. A role for government is to make sure that institutions are accountable and transparent.” September 15th, 2008
“John McCain at the time said that he supported the bailout of Fannie and Freddie and Bear Stearns because he recognized that it was important for the government to step in and prevent systemic risk in the case of Bear Stearns and make sure that Americans still had access to capital for homes in the case of Fannie and Freddie. However, he also said that it was a primary importance that having used taxpayer money here that taxpayers are protected first and foremost, that taxpayers should not be used to give the CEOs of Fannie and Freddie a nice golden parachute, and that the top priority must be to protect those taxpayers going forward.” September 15th, 2008
I’ll have to leave Cap & Trade for the next comment. Out of time.
Flap
RINO = Republican in Name Only.
It appears a lifelong Republican, who supports Republican candidates financially as well as logistically and supports the platform of the party is a RINO?
Please explain this to me.
By the way, the Free Republic post was a copy of a Chuck DeVore piece posted on his website and written by his staff.
jakeease
Why don’t you explain a few things. Are you attempting to refute that Fiorina is a RINO by reiterating that she is a “lifelong Republican”? On the surface, “lifelong Republican” and “Republican in Name Only” are equivalent; yet your argument goes no deeper with respect to principles. Financial support is purely surface, and we have already established that she gave tens of thousands of dollars to PACs/lobbyists who give money equally to any and all politicians in exchange for influence.
You opened the discussion by announcing her endorsement “by another conservative Republican United States Senator”. The article is simply a Fiorina press release. The press release–and your count appended to it imply that the mentioned Senators are conservative. Do you consider Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins and Lindsey Graham conservatives? They match your definition in 7 above.
You counter my assertions by referring me to her website to read her positions. Your main article is simply a Fiorina press release. Yet your opening response is that I “sound like DeVore talking points.” Huh? Please how it is that you take her rhetoric as gospel and consider it a sufficient refutation of what I have said simply by associating it with DeVore.
Are you insinuating that facts about Fiorina’s positions two years ago are false if DeVore’s website mentions them?
Here is a report on her bailout flip-flop from ThinkProgress–trust me no connection to DeVore!
” Later in her chat, Fiorina demonstrated one of the values that she shares with Palin, which is flip-flopping on last fall’s bank bailout. Fiorina told the reporters at the Spectator breakfast that she opposed bailouts:
Fiorina said that she was opposed to bailouts and President Obama’s economic stimulus package. Instead, she said, she supports low taxes and spending, and described the nation’s debt as “unsustainable.â€
But in 2008, Fiorina defended the bailout, calling it “necessaryâ€:
– FIORINA: And, finally, if you cannot get a loan for anything that you need to do, keep your small business running — in other words, the bank bailout was, unfortunately, necessary because credit is tight for hardworking Americans and small businesses. And John McCain has very specific proposals to help them get through this. [Fox News, 10/14/08]
– FIORINA: I think there are many people who are uncomfortable with the government bailout. And I think many people, including Senator McCain, supported that a bailout for the very simple reason, and only one reason, and that is credit was being cut off to small businesses, to companies, and to families in America.
So something had to be done to loosen the credit freeze. And, in fact, it appears to be working thus far. While the stock market plummeted today on fears of an economic slowdown or recession, fundamentally, we can see the credit is loosening. That is a bit of good news. [Fox News, 10/22/08] ”
Lindsey Graham is widely considered a RINO. His contributions to Republicans are similar to Fiorina’s; does that prove he’s not a RINO?
I get it that Fiorina is a Republican. The question raised by your headline and her press release is whether she is a conservative.
I dispute that. You want to say it but the best you can do is “Kyl endorsed her”.
Here’s what azcongresswatch.com says about border support from Kyl–and Boxer:
The fact that the government has built only 32 of the 700 miles-of double-layer fencing that Congress initially mandated in 2006 is partly the result of the amendment that Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) slipped into the omnibus appropriations bill enacted in December 2007.
“There was certainly some bureaucratic wiggle room, and they used it,†[Rep. Duncan] Hunter said.
That appropriations bill also required DHS to consult with local entities before beginning construction in order “to minimize the impact on the environment, culture, commerce, and quality of life†for local communities and residents.
Hutchison’s amendment easing the border-fence mandate was co-sponsored by other border state senators, including John Cornyn (R.-Texas), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), John McCain (R.-Ariz.) Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), Jeff Bingaman (D.-N.M.), Dianne Feinstein (D.-Calif.), and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).
Flap
Reread your post at number 4 above. You are the one who is calling Carly Fiorina a Republican in Name only and weakly make the case with facts that are wrong.
If you want to support DeVore, fine. But, calling Fiorina names and labeling her something she is not is just hot air.