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Carly Fiorina, the former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, has announced that she will seek the Republican nomination for the 2016 US presidential election:
"Yes, I am running for president," she said on ABC's "Good Morning America," where she made the announcement to host George Stephanopoulos. "I think I'm the best person for the job because I understand how the economy actually works. I understand the world, who's in it, how the world works. I understand bureaucracies, and that's what our federal government has become — a giant, bloated, unaccountable, corrupt bureaucracy," she said. "I understand technology, which is a tool both to re-imagine government to re-engage citizens in the process of government, and I understand executive decision-making, which is making a tough call in a tough time with high stakes for which you're prepared to be accountable."
The former Hewlett-Packard executive said she does not believe that it is necessary to have experience in political office, something that she has heard from Americans while traveling throughout the country. "They're kind of tired of the political class, and they believe that we need to return to a citizen government," she said.
Fiorina also slammed Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, saying that she is not trustworthy. While Fiorina said she admires Clinton, she asserted that the former secretary of state has not been transparent about issues ranging from Benghazi to foreign donations to her family's foundation.
Fiorina also launched her presidential campaign website on Monday, featuring a one-minute video with the message that America's founders "never intended us to have a professional political class." The video begins with Fiorina watching Clinton's presidential announcement. After Clinton says she is running for president, Fiorina switches off the TV, turns to the camera and delivers her message.
Neurosurgeon Ben Carson made his announcement on Sunday; former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee is expected to join the race on Tuesday.
Gizmodo points out that Fiorina's team forgot to register the domain carlyfiorina.org.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by aristarchus on Tuesday May 05 2015, @07:36AM
She knows the Republicans will be tempted to pick a female VP to help against Hillary
Because that worked out so well the last time! Face it! For 40 years no Republican will be elected president. This is all a replay of several things, but most importantly of the Great Depression. FDR served four terms, because the American people realized that Silent Cal had sold them down the river with a Republican economic plan, the same plan that Reagan and the Bushes have forced on America and the World to produce the Great Recession. Supply-side economics is a lie, as several of the original architects have admitted. Republicans had to get a law passed to ensure they could have the presidency again, and then they lost to Truman. I see no reason it should be different now.
(Oh, a joke! A Cuban, a Canadian, and a white supremeist walk into a bar, and the bartender says: "What'll you have, Senator Cruz?")
(Score: 3, Insightful) by VLM on Tuesday May 05 2015, @11:32AM
Aside from specific historical events they have a demographic crisis. Sure, go ahead with opposition to gay marriage, quisling like worship of cops who shoot black people in the back, make everyone poor and then make your policy "F the poor", quisling worship of the 1%, Christian taliban ideals, no legalizing pot, lets ban abortions and teaching post 1700 biology. That kind of stuff sells really well to angry white men over 70, unfortunately thats only about 10% of voters and everyone else says F that either in whole or at least in part.
Their only hope of fundraising is to keep the neo scum around because the 1%er upper class unfortunately resemble the above paragraph, yet their only hope of getting elected is either Hillary or ejecting the neo scum from the party. Hillary is probably going to win the primaries with every R voter out there crossing lines to vote for her (in some states crossing lines isn't allowed, or more accurately is made very difficult), and if the D are dumb enough to nominate her then the R can win. Otherwise we're looking at a permanent D majority as far as the eye can see.
This will have no effect on policy, the rich guys will remain in charge and control both parties completely, only on the PR used to pacify the masses. How a permanent D supermajority will pacify the masses is a mystery, as that doesn't appear like a democracy so its not going to pacify people very well. The political scene of the future couple decades is to pacify the population we'll get one party of consistent but whacko ideas that being the fox news / r party axis of evil, and the other party containing inconsistent whackos that being the rest of the media / d party axis of evil. That'll provide the illusion of choice at election time, keep people pacified.
(Score: 3, Informative) by tathra on Tuesday May 05 2015, @04:48PM
Which is why the GOP and their allies concentrate so hard on voter suppression, [rollingstone.com] misinforming non-Republican voters [thinkprogress.org] and making it impossible for them to be able to vote, [prwatch.org] not to mention straight voter fraud [soylentnews.org] wherever they can pull it off.