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June 10, 2010 07:49 PM UTC

At Least She's Not Your Senate Candidate

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  • by: Colorado Pols

From MSNBC:

Caught on an open mic as she was getting ready to go on CNN Wednesday, California’s new Republican senatorial nominee, Carly Fiorina, may have set a new record for most catty remarks per minute.

She repeatedly questioned her fellow Republican Meg Whitman’s “bizarre” decision to be interviewed by Fox host Sean Hannity and cracked herself up by mocking the physical appearance of her Democratic opponent, incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer.

Boxer’s hairstyle, Fiorina laughed, is “so yesterday.” But here’s what’s so yesterday: Fiorina’s whole “Mean Girls” approach to female competition. Even as commentators across the country were saluting Fiorina as part of the unprecedented wave of female Republican candidates who’d prevailed at the polls on Tuesday night, she was behaving like a throwback, criticizing both her opponent’s looks and her own party’s gubernatorial nominee’s judgment in terms that were far less attractive than a mere bad hair day…

…Checking her BlackBerry, she read an e-mail from a supporter: “Just watched you on Fox, blah, blah, blah. Wow, people are up early.” Though “I didn’t eat last night,” those with her were sure “wolfing down cheeseburgers,” she reported and “eating, eating.”

Finally, she referred to her competition as “Failedsenator.com. Hello, Barbara” – then mentioned someone who “saw Barbara Boxer briefly on television this morning and said what everyone says, ‘God, what is that hair?'”

“So yesterday,” said the woman being hailed around the country as a new brand of feminist.

 

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17 thoughts on “At Least She’s Not Your Senate Candidate

    1. Boxer will, despite the hair, make sure that every detail that reflects negatively on Fiona’s departure from HP, will be brought up time and time again.  And in California, Boxer’s hair should go over just fine with women of a certain age who vote. It’s not exactly the mecca of great taste.

  1. Did liberal feminist women ever make fun of absolutely everything about Sarah Palin?  

    Clothes, hair, glasses, accent, education.

    Oh, they still do?  Never mind.

      1. I was making the point that it’s completely acceptable for the left to make fun of Palin’s wardrobe, hair and accent, but God-forbid a Republican woman comment on Barbara Boxer’s hair.

        Just another lame posting by Colorado Pols.

    1. Like making fun of Palin because she went through campaign funds like water buying clothes?  Or the fact that she couldn’t hold her own against a presumably friendly morning TV show interviewer?

      You betcha.  (And, since we snipe at Joe Biden for his gaffes, I don’t find picking on Palin’s northern accent to be terribly petty.)

  2. Carly Fiorina’s remarks about Sen. Boxer are pretty tame compared to other open-mic mishaps. The only problem I can see with this is the constantly checking of her blackberry–it makes her come across as inattentive and uncaring.  

     

      1. For the record I’m not supporting Carly Fiorina, or Republicans in general (for that matter). I just think it’s getting blown out of proportion.  

    1. At least on the hair comment; it was a dumb snipe for a political opponent (note difference here between generic commentator and candidate’s opponent)

      But I don’t think it rates an “At Least [S]he’s Not Your…” diary really.

      Fiorina said more noteworthy things elsewhere in the interview.

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