I like that. When you can’t actually refute the record, which is that Carly Fiorina is making video appearances nationwide, day trips to wealthy donors, and even trips to Italy, but can’t frigging show up to the California Republican Convention, just call it “asinine.”

Of course, you DC/east coast types are going to be long gone when the general election comes. The unions, the Democrats, and the press are going to take your wishy-washy ‘offense’ and cram it down Carly’s throat when she can’t campaign in the general.

what should be a momentous moment for Conservatives by MUCKING up the works in two states. What is wrong with these women? are they so egotistical that they cannot see that they are creating havoc where none need be? I will have to say the answer to that is NO! I think Fiorina’s whining about her cancer instead of just bowing out to take care of her health is pathetic and KBH instead of just running for the Senate again decided to take on a GREAT Governor for whom she doesn’t stand a snowball chance in hell and instead is splitting D-lite Republican from the Conservative’s in the grassroots! Sit down ladies and let the RIGHT get on with YANKING the Republicans back to their Conservative roots.

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Hence, why the gratuitous criticism?

I will concede that Fiorina has flaws in her conservative arsenal, but in one area she is one of the best, and that is in her defense of conservatism and lawyerly-like deconstruction of liberals on live TV appearances with liberals on Sunday Morning talk shows and other TV political shows.

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he lost many people because they didn’t think he could survive a presidential term. I have a friend who recently had breast cancer surgery. She had one lymph node that was affected, and, the doctors agreed that she didn’t need radiation, as the cancer was contained. No guarantees for sure, and if you are in the earlier stages, there are at least a few drugs that have the purpose of trying to insure that the cancer doesn’t reoccur. I wish the best for Fiorino with her health problems, however, if you have such serious health problems, why would you not be more concerned about your personal health, rather than putting your energies into a stressful campaign to win a seat that you may not be able to occupy?

….when Fiorina announced that she couldn’t attend the CRP due to her cancer treatments, and then showed up to campaign in Fresno the next day(!), a CA reporter told me that “some witless Carly flack will immediately bark ‘victim’ as soon as the hypocrisy is pointed out.”

QED!

All I’ll say is this: there’s no need for rumors here. The facts speak for themselves:

1) Carly Fiorina indeed has suffered from an especially brutal and awful experience with breast cancer, and she continues to endure draining treatments for it.
2) Carly Fiorina indeed has declared, on the record, that this is the only reason that she did not show up for the CRP.
3) Carly Fiorina indeed went to campaign in Fresno the very next day.

If this is “rumor-mongering of a particularly vicious and fatuous sort,” you may take it up with the man who broke the story: John Ellis of the Fresno Bee. Neither Chuck DeVore nor his campaign has the slightest interest in attacking a cancer victim per se — the demands of ordinary decency, and the fact that Mrs DeVore is herself a cancer survivor, demand otherwise.

Naturally, you wish to advance this lie, as a means of deflecting attention from the pathetic spectacle of Carly Fiorina being caught in a bad spot — by a small-town beat reporter.

Oh, by the way, James: “DeVore’s critics say”? “Sources familiar with Fiorina’s event in Fresno say”? As an NCO once asked me, you got a mouse in your pocket, or do you contain Whitmanesque multitudes?

The issue here is not whether Fiorina will be too sick to campaign, nor even whether she lied about the demands of her treatments. She’ll be perfectly well enough to campaign — she’s already scheduled her trips to Italy and Brazil, available at carlyfiorina.com! — and her actions speak loudly enough without need for explanation or embellishment from our side. Rather, the issue is whether her campaign grasps how it looks when it does this sort of thing, and whether it will ever exhibit the basic competence necessary to run for Fresno’s dogcatcher, much less Fresno’s Senator.

Evidence so far, from her scheduler and her shills, is no.

I didn’t need Devore to “rumor monger” in order to come to the conclusion that either Carley is too sick or too liberal to run because it seems pretty obvious to me that she doesn’t care enough about the Republican Party to seek it’s blessings before accepting the anointing of the powers that be to place hold a spot in the CA race that might better be held by someone who gave a crap about winning…

It seems to me she needs to make a decision. If her illness will effect her health to the point where she won’t be able to campaign effectively…or govern effectively…maybe she should take her self out of the running and come back once she’s better…

on the other hand…if her health isn’t the issue…but she isn’t serious about getting in this to win it…she needs to get over herself and get out of the way for someone who is serious about it!

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…she’s got to cut this out. Either she’s running, or she’s not. Go all in, before DeVore, the press, or both cause you a death by a thousand cuts.

At the very least, I can’t fault DeVore’s level of energy that he is putting into the race. Here’s to hoping that, whatever happens, we can finally put Babs Boxer into the retirement that she so richly deserves and the people of the state of California so desperately need.

…but maybe I’m not reading/seeing the right stuff.

If I wanted to see evidence, good evidence that Chuck Devore has a realistic chance of beating Barbara Boxer, where would I look?

It reminds me of Braveheart.

Two bodies of warriors charge at each other, chop each other to bits, and the “winner” staggers away.

Is this normally how CA Republicans choose their Senatorial candidates?

That explains how Barbara Boxer keeps getting reelected.

I went to see DeVore talk locally around the beginning of August. He was entertaining and informative and more or less about where I’d want a candidate to be (little quibbles - I prefer flat tax, he prefers fair - aside). Whether he can be elected or not, I couldn’t say, being fairly new to the state and being pretty close to the liberal heartland in the state as well.

That said, trying to make hay over this seems somewhat petty. It does seem to me that “benefit of the doubt”, as illinoisconservative says, is due here, at least at this stage, being such a distance from the primary itself.

What I don’t quite understand, tho, is why? Sure, name recognition, but is it really the case that attacks are immediately necessary to get recognition? He gives a good speech, and he’s certainly making an effort to get out and in front of people to climb the recognition mountain. Nobody knows if that’s enough or not, but it might be.

In any case, if it isn’t, aren’t there more important points upon which to base rhetorical distinctions than missing a party meeting, ones that would illustrate real, substantive differences? This is inside, inside baseball, or so it seems to me.

(My impression so far is that Fiorina would be less conservative on a handful of issues than I’d prefer, probably abortion most notably, and that DeVore would be much preferable solely on the issues. Unless I’ve seriously misunderstood both their politics, I’ll almost certainly check off DeVore in the primary. However: there are more principled and less principled ways to win a primary, and this feels like it leans more toward the latter than the former.)