Just Like Palin, Fiorina Flip-Flops On Her Support For The Bank Bailout
Just Like Palin, Fiorina Flip-Flops On Her Support For The Bank Bailout
Appearing at an American Spectator Newsmaker Breakfast this morning, California Senate candidate and former McCain campaign adviser Carly Fiorina said that she “probably would have voted for” Justice Sonia Sotomayor because “she seemed qualified.” Asked if she thought former Alaska governor Sarah Palin would back her campaign, Fiorina said she had “no idea,” but that she shares “Sarah Palin’s values.”
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.”
But in 2008, Fiorina defended the bailout, calling it “necessary”:
– 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]
Palin and Fiorina aren’t the only conservatives whose “values” have changed regarding the bailout. Both Mitt Romney and Glenn Beck supported the financial rescue, but now rail against it.
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Well why not flip flop as you seem not to vote either. And this must be a older picture cause is not her hair almost a buzz cut look to it.
Hell she could always do as well as she did for HP/compac, she has experience in taking a power house company and driving it off the cliff.
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:56 pmSo she drove Hewlett Packard into the ground, and now she wants to do the same thing with the country. Yep — sounds like a repuglican candidate to me…
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:57 pmWhen it was the GW Botch bail out she was for it. Now, with a Democrat in the WH she is against it.
Spineless RePugniScum. What’da’ya expect?
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:57 pmIn case carly hasn’t noticed, this “unsustainable” national debt is largely the work of Republican presidents whose economic policies extended no further than “low taxes”.
It was Albert Einstein who suggested that insanity was “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”.
What does that say about the Republican Party?
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:58 pmLove the picture. Typical repug wingnut. Their crooks. She has her hands up like shes surrendering to the police.
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:58 pm40,000 highly trained people with good salaries ruined? Carly Fiorina isn’t going anywhere.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:01 pmIt’s clear…IOKIYAR…that’s the only standard they know.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:06 pmand you know what’s galling? They can claim they were ALWAYS against the bailouts, and their stupid base laps it up like dogs…
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:06 pmThe GOP have learned that no one (aka the MSM) never challenges them on their lies, so they let loose with one outright lie after another.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:10 pmAfter trashing two California technology corporations, Hewlett-Packard and Lucent Technologies, Carly Fiorina now wants to trash what remains of our California state government. Hasn’t the Schwartzenfuhrer (R- Austria) done enough damage already? Don’t Fiorinacate California.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:18 pmAh, the GOPers… they are just like pancakes. They can easily be flipped.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:18 pmBwa ha ha. This will sink her against Boxer. While both candidates backed the bailout and now rail against it, Boxer is a lot less craven about it. She’s actually be working to help the middle class, whereas Fiorina spouts talking points.
Also, Fiornia’s flip will get her ass primaried by Chuck DeVore. And, no matter what shape the economy is in, California won’t elect an anti-envrionment, anti-gay, gun nut, particularly against an incumbent like Boxer.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:20 pmIt needs to be mentioned that her second husband Frank Fiorina is an AT&T executive and that Carly was once an executive VP there.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:24 pmPalin & Fiorina have one thing in common…
They’re both McCain LOSERS.
Sarah quits & Carly gets fired, but they’re both LOSERS.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:24 pmCheck out her cleaned-up glossy page over @ wikipedia. I think the page needs one of their disclaimers
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:25 pmIsn’t this the broad who drove HP into the ground? I doesn’t matter. The ‘Tea-Baggers’ will be out enmass to get rid of all the Repugs who aren’t ‘Pure’ enough. Carly will be No. 1 on their list.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:27 pmOn the other hand, Carly got a $20M golden parachute.
Sarah had to give her clothes back, didn’t get any money, so she had to write a book.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:30 pmFrom ScrippsNews.com:
Can’t be bothered to vote, but she wants to be a Senator? She will be lucky to make it out of the primary with that one.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:30 pmJust Like Palin, Fiorina Flip-Flops On Her Support For The Bank Bailout
– - None of that matters anymore. Just dress fashionably and be perky. You betcha.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:32 pmHeck, this works for me; makes perfect sense. Some witless business and marketing major rises to it’s level of incompetence, runs a company or two into the wall, if not the ground, then moves on to new fields of endeavour. And why should that field not be politics, and why not start near the top? I agree, Don’t Carlifornicate California.
That’s just rational self interest, by the way. Everytime California has found a new way to be fornicated in the last decade or so, the off-spring of the Depression and Dust Bowl era Okies that went west have come back the other way, and some of them haven’t gotten any further than NM. And they’re starting up the same stupid shit here that got them in trouble there.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:33 pmAfter all the fuss the wingnuts made about flip flopping, threads like this are poetic justice. We must remove Republicans from every elected position because they cannot be trusted.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:39 pmOf course she would be a flip-flopper…she’s a Rushpublican!
They lie…they change the story…they make stuff up…and they lie some more.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:47 pmSo she would have left the economy in free-fall and another great depression. Yes, we have many serious challenges but they pale compared to the havoc her irresponsible policies would have caused. By the way, McCain supported TARP.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:47 pmSeriously, Carly… Your answer is to lower taxes and spending?
Reduce revenue coming in and raising the national debt to favor the richest 1%? Spend less and let the economy stagger through the reces..er depression caused by your dogmatic stupidity?
Go back and wreck another tech, you sorry ass excuse for a person.
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:52 pmThis two-faced hack will say anything and do anything to get what she wants and nobody’s body will stand in her way.
Economy in a deep depression worldwide ? Hey.not my fault..hey, I got mine so screw you…That’s carly’s way..ask others from hp… one of the most worthless humans ever to graze the planet…
November 23rd, 2009 at 3:55 pmcarly fiorina is the epitome of the perfect repukeliscum candidate where failure is cherished like it’s success:
she got removed from the office of CEO from HP in a vote of no confidence.
she ran a presidential campaign where syphillis got more votes than her candidate.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:03 pmVirtual Pebble says:
Heck, this works for me; makes perfect sense. Some witless business and marketing major rises to it’s level of incompetence, runs a company or two into the wall, if not the ground, then moves on to new fields of endeavour. And why should that field not be politics, and why not start near the top?
Are you referring to George W Bush or Carly Fiorina?
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:13 pmThey have an eerily similar background, both crave attention, they’re somewhat sociopathic and are both available for the right price.
When I think of Carly I think of how hard it was for me to get the right to vote and even get equality in my country. Many Americans of all races died for minorities to get equal rights. Just think Carly was born with all the rights of an American but she never voted. Now she is asking for those same people to vote for her. She’s got guts but no values.
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:44 pmThats what politicians do best, flip flop, lie cheat and steal to please everyone on ALL sides! LOL, what a farce.
Jess
November 23rd, 2009 at 4:57 pmOnline Privacy when it Counts
She’s only against bailouts because no one bailed Hewlett-Packard after she crippled it.
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:44 pmRe: Zimzone @ 17:
The book was _ghostwritten_. She’s too damn dumb to do her own writing.
November 24th, 2009 at 1:49 am