September 01, 2010

California Senate Debate: Fiorina vs. Boxer
— Gabriel Malor

Above the Post Recap & Review:

That went pretty well. Fiorina made a good introduction to the people of California. Unfortunately, this won't make a big dent in the polls; there was no knock-out punch from either candidate. Mostly because Fiorina didn't try and because Boxer, though she was picking at Fiorina's HP days like mad, couldn't land a solid hit.

Things I didn't know about Fiorina before the debate: She supports the DREAM Act, but not "amnesty." She wants to repeal Roe v. Wade and return to a state-by-state, "let the voters decide" approach to abortion. She wants to repeal DADT. She refused to take a stand on Prop 23, which would overturn California's greenhouse gas emissions scheme.

As I wrote on twitter, she will have made progress with Latinos and independents. But she will lose ground with women. Boxer is going to exploit the heck out of that with paid media in the next two months. Boxer is going to need somebody to turn out to vote, since Democratic voters are generally going to be demoralized, and it's going to be the feminist dog whistle all the way.

I'm disappointed that Fiorina let so many opportunities to hit back on jobs go by. She had a tendency to get caught up in the weeds, drifting around the general area of the issue and spitting out plenty of factoids, but never just spelling it out. Well, okay, she spelled it out once when she said "cut the regulations, cut the taxes and jobs will come." But then she got tangled in talk about "TARP Jr." and "TARP Sr." that probably lost a lot of viewers. And she never came back to that simple message: "you want jobs to come back to California? Cut taxes, cut regulation." My impression was that she was over-prepared on this and thought she had to regurgitate every last factoid she'd memorized. It was the wrong approach.

On the other hand, Boxer certainly said nothing to recommend herself for another six years. She said what Democrats have always said: raise taxes, ban guns, bailouts for teachers, and money for green jobs. Nothing that would really give the idea that she has a plan to salvage the California economy. When it came to economics, she only attacked Fiorina for her time at HP and reminisced about the "good old days" when President Clinton ran a surplus. (Unmentioned by Boxer, of course, is that during those good old days, there was a Republican Congress.)

Also Boxer might have hurt herself with some independents because she lectured patronizingly that sometimes it's right for judges to overturn the will of the people. It did not make for pleasant television.

Finally, though she probably hoped to lay the "Ma'am" fiasco to rest, I doubt her answer will satisfy everyone. Boxer said it was a formal hearing and she wanted the general to call her by her formal title. Fiorina did the classy thing and let it go.

All in all, a wash, I think. But it's the opening gambit for the next series of paid media attacks. Boxer has hardly begun on that front. Fiorina now has to shift from her primary election strategy to the general election.

Original Post is Tucked Below: At 7pm Pacific, Carly Fiorina will face Barbara Boxer for a 60-minute televised debate. If you're interested, it will be on C-SPAN, the Chronicle's website, or watch it below the fold (assuming this gizmo plays when the debate starts).

I'll be live-tweeting the debate at @gabrielmalor.

While we're waiting for that to get kicking, Barbara Boxer's foot-in-mouth fib about Condi Rice is recounted in the arch-conservative pages of...the San Francisco Chronicle???

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 07:58 PM | Comments (416)
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1

Barbara Boxer?  Barbara Boxer? 

How dare you!  That's Senator Boxer Shorts With Old Incontinent Hag Skid Marks to you!  She did earn it, after all.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 01, 2010 04:04 PM (r1h5M)

2 I really, really, really hope Fiorina makes her look foolish. I hope we can get ads out of it. I hope she doesnt gaffe. She kicked breast cancer's ass, and I pray she helps extract this malignant growth from her seat on Capitol Hill.

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 04:04 PM (lV4Fs)

3 Morons...you know what to do after this. SATURATE the comments page on the Chronicle's website. When a poll pops asking who won...saturate that too.

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 04:07 PM (lV4Fs)

4

3 I really, really, really hope Fiorina makes her look foolish. I hope we can get ads out of it. I hope she doesnt gaffe.

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 08:04 PM (lV4Fs)

Unless Fiorina forgets her brain in the icebox, it's a given.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 01, 2010 04:08 PM (r1h5M)

5 I hope Fiorina calls her ma'am

Posted by: Ombudsman at September 01, 2010 04:09 PM (c1oyg)

6 call me madam senator......peasant........

Posted by: phoenixgirl at September 01, 2010 04:09 PM (eOXTH)

7 that damn Firiona never should have been our nominee, no, i'm not bitter at all

Posted by: Michelle Malkin Sockpuppet at September 01, 2010 04:12 PM (uLoHz)

8 I know Barbara Boxer will look foolish, I'm just hoping Carli doesn't play down to her level and look stupid too...

Posted by: phreshone at September 01, 2010 04:12 PM (1AnxB)

9 #7 She should call her Ma'am, and smile about it very subtly until Boxer explodes

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 04:14 PM (lV4Fs)

10 I still think Mickey Kaus debating an actual box was a fantastic political stunt.

Posted by: alexthechick at September 01, 2010 04:14 PM (eRjGt)

11 11 #7
She should call her Ma'am, and smile about it very subtly until Boxer explodes





Hells no. An enormous shit-eatin' grin is warranted with that line. It'll push Boxer to spittle in less than 10 minutes.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 01, 2010 04:16 PM (P9+0W)

12 some Muslim Republican debating O'Reilly on the Mosque, he's going down some talking points, I can't stand this "hey they're like me" mentality, as a Hispanic Republican identity politics disgust me

Posted by: YRM (The Youngest Ace Commenter-Go Rays!) at September 01, 2010 04:17 PM (uLoHz)

13 I still think Mickey Kaus debating an actual box was a fantastic political stunt.

Also, intellectually accurate.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 01, 2010 04:18 PM (NvFZs)

14 14,

Bill Clinton legitimized it in '92 with his "Mr. Bush".....

Posted by: sven10077 at September 01, 2010 04:18 PM (kq1lG)

15 Mickey Kaus' box didn't give any stupid answers...

Posted by: phreshone at September 01, 2010 04:19 PM (1AnxB)

16 I wish Kaus had debated a boxer dog, a Boxster automobile, the guy at the supermarket that puts your groceries into boxes, and a pile of Bach CDs.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at September 01, 2010 04:20 PM (a5ljo)

17

Alex,

He did that? That's awesome.

Yup.  Even better he referred to her as "ma'am" and had a campaign person play the "don't call me ma'am" clip. 

Posted by: alexthechick at September 01, 2010 04:20 PM (eRjGt)

18 Oh, and also Leon Spinks or Mike Tyson. And a popular Simon and Garfunkel single from 1969.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at September 01, 2010 04:22 PM (a5ljo)

19

Someone please remind me what Barbara PitBulls qualifications for Ma'am Senator are???  

I'll wait

 

Posted by: gus at September 01, 2010 04:23 PM (Vqruj)

20 Someone please remind me what Barbara PitBulls qualifications for Ma'am Senator are?

Stupid and corrupt are the usual benchmarks.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at September 01, 2010 04:26 PM (K585M)

21 Someone please remind me what Barbara PitBulls qualifications for Ma'am Senator are??? 

1.  You have to allow a qualifier--she is a California Democrat.

2.  And is therefore alternately incoherent, wilfully stupid or hypcritical by definition.

3.  She is therefore qualified to be a Democratic U.S. Senator from California.


Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at September 01, 2010 04:27 PM (NvFZs)

22 I photosynthesize moonlight and drink only the finest Sasquatch Urine.

Posted by: Albino Redwood at September 01, 2010 04:29 PM (XaxHG)

23 Someone please remind me what Barbara PitBulls qualifications for Ma'am Senator are??? I'll wait Her inability to balance a checkbook.

Posted by: Tom Foley at September 01, 2010 04:29 PM (SwkdU)

24
Barbara Boxer's foot-in-mouth fib about Condi Rice is recounted in the arch-conservative pages of...the San Francisco Chronicle???

Fact-checking is racist.

Posted by: The Boxer Campaign at September 01, 2010 04:30 PM (kygI6)

25 what is the Vimeo video supposed to be about?  all i see is a guy holding a microphone in front of a building

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 04:31 PM (kUEkq)

26 "Did I Douche?"

Posted by: Barbara Boxer at September 01, 2010 04:32 PM (XaxHG)

27 "Did Am I Douche?"
FIFY.

Posted by: Little Miss Spellcheck at September 01, 2010 04:34 PM (a5ljo)

28

Jan 2011: "Get out of my chair."

-Fiorina

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at September 01, 2010 04:34 PM (tm15w)

29 re: 30 Someone please remind me what Barbara PitBulls qualifications for Ma'am Senator are??? Frothing at the mouth leftist dumbass idiot zealot with a cooter that'd scare Cthulhu. There may be more, but essentially that's enough. Really, as Cali is a 1-party state, all one needs is a D after their name. I don't recall a real candidate ever being put against Babsy by the Stupid Party. Ever. And make no mistake, Fiorina is a RINO who lost 2/3 of the value of HP while at the helm, so she's our Scott Brown candidate. Better than Babs is all we're after this go-round.

Posted by: cali grump at September 01, 2010 04:35 PM (1tJr/)

30 I never should have eaten that double bean burrito for lunch.

Posted by: Babs Boxer at September 01, 2010 04:36 PM (554T5)

31 OH my god, Boxer killed those poor women?  What was she gonna do with all that dynamite?

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 01, 2010 04:37 PM (bAySe)

32

Fact-checking is racist.

Hell, facts are racist. Just like gravity.

Posted by: The Boxer Campaign at September 01, 2010 04:39 PM (65LDh)

33 Wenches.

Posted by: Barbarian at September 01, 2010 04:40 PM (EL+OC)

34
Ok, I need to practice one more time.

"I'm not a commie. I'm not a commie. I'm not a commie".
 
There, I'm ready.

Posted by: Babs Boxer at September 01, 2010 04:40 PM (554T5)

35 And make no mistake, Fiorina is a RINO who lost 2/3 of the value of HP while at the helm, so she's our Scott Brown candidate. Better than Babs is all we're after this go-round.

Voting here seems like it's futile most of the time. CA GOP is the most worthless organization on the planet. But I'll vote for the Devil himself just to kick Ma'am Boxer out on her ass.

Posted by: Rum, Goddess of Doom at September 01, 2010 04:41 PM (gofDd)

36 CA GOP is the most worthless organization on the planet. Wanna arm wrestle for the check?

Posted by: Massachusetts GOP at September 01, 2010 04:43 PM (SwkdU)

37

Rum.  California is given a choice.  SHIT SANDWICH or WARM GLASS OF PISS.

Easy choice Ma'am.

 

 

 

Posted by: gus at September 01, 2010 04:43 PM (Vqruj)

38 And make no mistake, Fiorina is a RINO who lost 2/3 of the value of HP while at the helm

Value can be recovered.  The destruction of the brand as something special was an even worse crime.  Brands that have been severely compromised rarely ever recover that lost stature in buyer's minds.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at September 01, 2010 04:44 PM (K585M)

39

7 pm Pacific?  Isn't that, like, tomorrow sometime?

Posted by: Rocketeer67 at September 01, 2010 04:44 PM (ncfDt)

40 O/T: How insane would a Palin/Bolton ticket for 2012 be? I'll be in my bunk...

Posted by: ChicagoJedi at September 01, 2010 04:44 PM (WZFkG)

41 How have those MORON TWINS worked out in Maine. 

Posted by: gus at September 01, 2010 04:44 PM (Vqruj)

42 California is given a choice.  SHIT SANDWICH or WARM GLASS OF PISS.

Except all of our choices are like that. If we nuked SF, Berkley and Sacramento from orbit, CA would be much, much better.

Posted by: Rum, Goddess of Doom at September 01, 2010 04:46 PM (gofDd)

43 How insane would a Palin/Bolton ticket for 2012 be?

Sponge Bob/Capt Crunch would trounce Obama/Anybody in 2012.

Posted by: Purple Avenger at September 01, 2010 04:46 PM (K585M)

44 They pulled the plug on the smiley faces for Office Beta 2010 but the program still works.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at September 01, 2010 04:46 PM (9cflz)

45

How have those MORON TWINS worked out in Maine.

Pains me to have to damit this, but better than the sure-fire alternative, I can tell you. 

Posted by: Rocketeer67 at September 01, 2010 04:47 PM (ncfDt)

46 CA GOP is the most worthless organization on the planet.

Wanna arm wrestle for the check?

Posted by: Massachusetts GOP at September 01, 2010 08:43 PM (SwkdU)




Ahem.

Posers.

Posted by: UN Human Rights Commission at September 01, 2010 04:47 PM (NvFZs)

47 Fuck you. This is the only race I can win and I'll be damned if it's taken from me. Posted by: Republican Party of the District of Columbia Your pretty mouthy for a mythical beast. I may be totally disfunctional, but I exist, unicorn lover.

Posted by: Massachusetts GOP, choosing the wrong fight at September 01, 2010 04:47 PM (SwkdU)

48 Just like gravity. Posted by: The Boxer Campaign at September 01, 2010 08:39 PM

Well the ultimate expression of gravity are Black Holes so yeah, racist!

Posted by: Commissioner John Wiley Price at September 01, 2010 04:48 PM (iN69M)

49 59 That is what I meant.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at September 01, 2010 04:48 PM (9cflz)

50
Uh, oh...here comes another rumble. Maybe I should have them mic my ass.

Posted by: Babs Boxer at September 01, 2010 04:50 PM (554T5)

51 None of the rest of you has anything on me.

Posted by: Global Warming at September 01, 2010 04:50 PM (9cflz)

52 Some of You People need to WTFU  ( wake the fuck up )

Carly at worst is a Scott Brown; if what she's saying now during the campaign is true, she'll be a Mitch McConnell Repub

OTOH, Boxer is a crazy lying POS full-blown hard core Lib wackjob and one of the worst persons ever to walk more-or-less erect on earth

tough choice, eh?

stop whining and donate time and money, and vote R

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at September 01, 2010 04:51 PM (dPcmp)

53 Did the HP chick win the primary? If so she is the candidate.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at September 01, 2010 04:52 PM (9cflz)

54 I read on a forum that MOB would have the plug pulled on Oct 31.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at September 01, 2010 04:53 PM (9cflz)

55 How insane would a Palin/Bolton ticket for 2012 be?

I'll be in my bunk...

Posted by: ChicagoJedi at September 01, 2010 08:44 PM (WZFkG)

Bolton should be the Secretary of State.  Why would you waste him as Veep?

Posted by: stuiec at September 01, 2010 04:55 PM (5UP6n)

56 Carly at worst is a Scott Brown; if what she's saying now during the campaign is true, she'll be a Mitch McConnell Repub

We can't be stubborn; half a cup is better than nothing, the Reagan philosophy.  Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good

Posted by: Ombudsman at September 01, 2010 04:56 PM (c1oyg)

57 Bolton should be Czar of State for Life.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at September 01, 2010 04:56 PM (9cflz)

58

Alex,

He did that? That's awesome.

Posted by: Chris in Va at September 01, 2010 08:15 PM (uCjoj)

The fact that you never heard about it proves that it wasn't all that awesome.  Awesome would have been if it had been seen everywhere.

Perhaps he should have put a DemonSheep in the box.

Posted by: stuiec at September 01, 2010 04:58 PM (5UP6n)

59 Boxer's loss would be a good thing. Another RINO is bad. The time to hunt RINO'S is during the Primary Season.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at September 01, 2010 04:59 PM (9cflz)

60

Boxer will come off nasty, groping to identify with people.  Boxer sounds like she's bullshitting all the time.  She seems like she's masking a 24/7 intense demeanor.  She has to force herself to smile.  She seems like a hag.

Fiornia has an easy smile and a charisma Boxer can't match.  And she never sounds like she's bullshitting.  She seems cool.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 04:59 PM (0hqOl)

61 Howz that for in-depth analysis?

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 05:00 PM (0hqOl)

62 O/T: How insane would a Palin/Bolton ticket for 2012 be? I'll be in my bunk...
Posted by: ChicagoJedi at September 01, 2010 08:44 PM (WZFkG)

If she runs and wins the nomination, she'll pick a retired General or Admiral.  Bank on it.

Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at September 01, 2010 05:00 PM (IoUF1)

63 Except all of our choices are like that. If we nuked SF, Berkley and Sacramento from orbit, CA would be much, much better.

Posted by: Rum, Goddess of Doom at September 01, 2010 08:46 PM (gofDd)

Naw, we ought to give the residents of SF and Berkeley UN passports to make them the Citizens of the World that they long to be... and thus make them ineligible to vote in statewide elections.

But nuking Sacramento might be a really good idea.

Posted by: stuiec at September 01, 2010 05:00 PM (5UP6n)

64 whoa you can get a free copy of Office?  how?

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 05:01 PM (kUEkq)

65 O/T: How insane would a Palin/Bolton ticket for 2012 be? I'll be in my bunk...
Posted by: ChicagoJedi at September 01, 2010 08:44 PM (WZFkG)

Flip the order and you got my vote

Posted by: Ombudsman at September 01, 2010 05:02 PM (c1oyg)

66

66 Did the HP chick win the primary? If so she is the candidate.

Exactly.  People talk as if you either have to disown Fiorina in CA or else disown Miller, Angle, et al. 

Not so.  All these candidates won free primary elections. 

Posted by: Ken at September 01, 2010 05:03 PM (ftfkn)

67 Did someone call for me? Posted by: Admiral James Stockdale at September 01, 2010 09:01 PM (uCjoj) Impostor

Posted by: Admiral Stockdale at September 01, 2010 05:05 PM (SwkdU)

68 Now I'm dreaming about a Palin Presidency: +Palin should put in Ray Bradbury as head of NASA. +Ted Nugent as Secretary of Interior

Posted by: ChicagoJedi at September 01, 2010 05:05 PM (WZFkG)

69 Boxer's loss would be a good thing. Another RINO is bad. The time to hunt RINO'S is during the Primary Season.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at September 01, 2010 08:59 PM (9cflz)

Why is this so difficult for people to understand?  We don't have time machines that allowed us to go back and re-run the primary over and over until we got the result we wanted.  And we in California should be profoundly grateful that we have Fiorina and not DemonSheep Campbell.

Posted by: stuiec at September 01, 2010 05:06 PM (5UP6n)

70 He came here for ammo.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 05:07 PM (0hqOl)

71 My favorite Michael Savage line is him saying the best Boxer could have done in his day was work in a brasier store.

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 05:07 PM (qhdz6)

72 I am the only true Admiral around here. It's a trap.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 01, 2010 05:07 PM (9cflz)

73 I know this is off-topic, but my son who is a military chaplain just informed me that of 5 soldiers killed in Afghanistan yesterday, one was Captain Dale Goetz, the first military chaplain killed in either Iraq or Afghanistan.  He leaves behind a wife and three sons.  The link is at my name.  My son received the same email from Chaplain HQ (unclassified) and sent it along to me. 

Please remember the fallen and their families in your prayers.

Thank you.

Posted by: mama winger at September 01, 2010 05:08 PM (KDX07)

74 Admiral Ackbar, are you Sunni or Shiite?

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 05:08 PM (0hqOl)

75 If she runs and wins the nomination, she'll pick a retired General or Admiral. Bank on it. Posted by: ol_dirty_/b/tard at September 01, 2010 09:00 PM (IoUF1) I could see that. Keep Bolton on as Sec of State.

Posted by: ChicagoJedi at September 01, 2010 05:08 PM (WZFkG)

76 Fiorina has spent a lot of years EXPLAINING things and SELLING her ideas...to managers,  to CEO's,  and to corporate boards.  She has had to be prepared with facts and answers to questions about proposals.  She is also a cancer survivor which makes her a little fearless.

Boxer has spent the last 10 years NOT debating, not doing anything but coasting.  She has only spoken to those unfortunate people who were hauled before whatever committee she was sitting on,  and she badgered them with her idiotic opinions while they had to sit there and take it.  She is arrogant to the max.

I know who I think will win.

Posted by: Miss Marple at September 01, 2010 05:10 PM (bixjr)

77 93 I use Scott's tissue. Relevance?

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at September 01, 2010 05:11 PM (9cflz)

78

Bolton should be the Secretary of State.  Why would you waste him as Veep?

Why not both?

 

Posted by: Rocketeer67 at September 01, 2010 05:12 PM (ncfDt)

79 That Marine General Osama layed off would be a good choice.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at September 01, 2010 05:12 PM (9cflz)

80 I want my presidents to be conservative two-term governors from larger states, preferably with some private sector,  military and foreign policy experience.  I hope we've finally put to bed these Senators/Congressmen, these ain't-never- run-nothing-but-his-mouth idiots, as candidates

Posted by: Ombudsman at September 01, 2010 05:13 PM (c1oyg)

81

Boxer radiates self-importance.  Confidence is one thing.  Fiorina seems confident.  But a billboard on your forehead that says "Yes, I am a powerful Senator" is ugly.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 05:15 PM (0hqOl)

82 That Marine General Osama layed off would be a good choice.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at September 01, 2010 09:12 PM (9cflz)

Who, McChrystal?  He's most likely a Democrat.

Posted by: stuiec at September 01, 2010 05:15 PM (5UP6n)

83 100 You are on the wrong thread genius.

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at September 01, 2010 05:15 PM (9cflz)

84 All I'm good for is three-word sentences tonight.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 05:15 PM (0hqOl)

85 Really?

Posted by: FlaviusJulius at September 01, 2010 05:16 PM (9cflz)

86 I want my presidents to be conservative two-term governors from larger states, preferably with some private sector,  military and foreign policy experience.  I hope we've finally put to bed these Senators/Congressmen, these ain't-never- run-nothing-but-his-mouth idiots, as candidates

Posted by: Ombudsman at September 01, 2010 09:13 PM (c1oyg)

So you only want Presidential candidates from Texas and Florida?

Posted by: stuiec at September 01, 2010 05:16 PM (5UP6n)

87 Admiral Ackbar, is your first name Skandor?

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 05:17 PM (0hqOl)

88

If you were the owner of a brasier shop, would you want her in your store?

Posted by: Chris in Va at September 01, 2010 09:08 PM (uCjoj)

True.

His other line in similar fashion was something about Schumer working as an accountant.

I think it's a NY Jewish thing with Savage.  Him growing up there and all.

A little Savage goes a long way, but he can be pretty creative when he isn't being a bombastic, attention seeking dick.

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 05:19 PM (qhdz6)

89 I want my presidents to be conservative two-term governors from larger states, preferably with some private sector,  military and foreign policy experience.  I hope we've finally put to bed these Senators/Congressmen, these ain't-never- run-nothing-but-his-mouth idiots, as candidates
Posted by: Ombudsman at September 01, 2010 09:13 PM (c1oyg)

So you only want Presidential candidates from Texas and Florida?


If my alternatives are New York and Massachusetts, absolutely.

Posted by: Ombudsman at September 01, 2010 05:19 PM (c1oyg)

90 So you only want Presidential candidates from Texas and Florida?

If my alternatives are New York and Massachusetts, absolutely.

Posted by: Ombudsman at September 01, 2010 09:19 PM (c1oyg)

Conservative is good.  Governor is good.  Two terms is good.  A larger state is good.  But it's hard to combine all four except in Florida and Texas.  (We used to be able to elect conservative Governors here in California, but it's been a while.)

Now, what of Wilson (as in Pete Wilson, the conservative two-term governor of California) on the ticket?

Posted by: stuiec at September 01, 2010 05:30 PM (5UP6n)

91 Boxer is in a debate.  It's one on one.  She can't win these.  Remember this one on one with Rick Santorum?

Boxer and Santorum went at over the subject of "When is a born baby an actual baby?".  The wiggling feet debate.

part 1
http://is.gd/eQjMV

part 2
http://is.gd/eQjQR

Posted by: wtfci at September 01, 2010 05:38 PM (R4rMI)

92 Wilson was a complete squish. The last decent Republican governor here was Deukmejian.

Posted by: David, infamous sockpuppet at September 01, 2010 05:47 PM (UtoLw)

93 Whining about Fiorina, seriously?

She was endorsed by Sarah Palin.  She may "grow" after a couple of terms, but shit you Californians should *wish* you had that problem.  After her bout with breast cancer the whole Obamacare death panel thing is pretty personal, meaning we can count on her for the one fight without which nothing else matters.

Posted by: someone at September 01, 2010 05:48 PM (DfAwB)

94 Don't get excited about the article being in an MSM rag--Saunders is the token conservative, I believe.

Posted by: PJ at September 01, 2010 06:00 PM (Fyjeu)

95 will Babs slam Carly for H1B Visas at HP?
Will Carly call Babs 'Ma'am'?
Will Cali survive until Carly and Meg can take it back to the 'middle way' h/t Buddha.
hang on as we go LIVE!


Posted by: mim/ginaswo at September 01, 2010 06:00 PM (GMlZJ)

96 +1 someone

Posted by: Rocketeer67 at September 01, 2010 06:01 PM (ncfDt)

97 The KTVU feed can't even get the aspect ratio right...

Posted by: someone at September 01, 2010 06:02 PM (DfAwB)

98 Carrrrrrrly!

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:02 PM (qhdz6)

99 "and you can call me Carly"   oh, snap

Posted by: Frank G at September 01, 2010 06:03 PM (4X0aT)

100
3 liberal questioners? Sounds about right for California.
Boxer is standing on her kiddie stool to look like a normal sized adult.

Posted by: Atomic Roach at September 01, 2010 06:05 PM (rMMMP)

101

I can barely stand to look at that old hag.  What a pathetic peice of work.  And she goes into attack mode immediately.

Wall Street.  Wall Street!

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:05 PM (qhdz6)

102 Wow.  Even in here opening remarks, Boxer is self-parodying.

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at September 01, 2010 06:06 PM (iyvmV)

103 Boy that was a fair and balanced question.

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:06 PM (qhdz6)

104 BABS !

Posted by: The Chirrinz at September 01, 2010 06:07 PM (EL+OC)

105

Wait, wait, don't you mean tax increases.

Posted by: Steny Hoyer at September 01, 2010 06:07 PM (pOgEW)

106 Back to the ?....FOUL !

Posted by: Barbarian at September 01, 2010 06:08 PM (EL+OC)

107

It's for the children!

 

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:09 PM (qhdz6)

108 OMFG the questioners are in Boxer's pockets

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:10 PM (kUEkq)

109 Is there a drinking game?

Posted by: Y-not at September 01, 2010 06:10 PM (osFsP)

110 Opening:  Fiorina lays out a case,  reminds people she worked her way up (I didn't know her husband drove a tow truck)  sounds calm,   and looks senatorial.

Boxer throws out a bunch of dim bulb things she's passed.  (All of which favor unions and are SPENDING bills.)

Now Boxer sounds like a moron.  Boxer brags about not supporting the war.

Posted by: Miss Marple at September 01, 2010 06:10 PM (bixjr)

111 Boxer tying herself to Obama.  I don't think this is a good move.

Posted by: Miss Marple at September 01, 2010 06:10 PM (bixjr)

112 Boxer blames Bush - DRINK

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:11 PM (kUEkq)

113 129  OMFG the questioners are in Boxer's pockets

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 10:10 PM (kUEkq)

Yep.

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at September 01, 2010 06:11 PM (tm15w)

114 OMFG the questioners are in Boxer's pockets

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 10:10 PM (kUEkq)

Big time.

I loved the first when did you stop beating your wife question.

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:11 PM (qhdz6)

115 Yay! Obama ended the war by being Present and letting Bush's agenda run it's course.

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:11 PM (PA722)

116 STFU

Posted by: Barbarian at September 01, 2010 06:12 PM (EL+OC)

117

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 10:11 PM (PA722)

Were you the guy that had the great Chrissie takedown this morning?

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:12 PM (qhdz6)

118 Right Babs. Timelines. Gotta have timelines or the Taliban won't know how long it will take to wait us out.

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at September 01, 2010 06:13 PM (tm15w)

119 TARP Jr. and Sr.  Clever.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:13 PM (0hqOl)

120 hmm Carly seems a bit stiff

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:13 PM (kUEkq)

121 @Delta Smelt

Ummm... if I say "yes" does that make me as full of myself as the Ear Leader?

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:13 PM (PA722)

122 oh great another loaded question to Carly - "will you support amnesty or are you a cruel bitch and send them all home?"

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:14 PM (kUEkq)

123 Ummm... if I say "yes" does that make me as full of myself as the Ear Leader?

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 10:13 PM (PA722)

Not at all.  I brought it up, not you.  Heh.

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:14 PM (qhdz6)

124 Fiorina needs to square off to the camera. Address everything to the camera.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:15 PM (0hqOl)

125 Fiorina,  after hearing Boxer say she supported the troops,  says that her record on this is not good.  AGAINST body armor, extended leave for dependents of those who have wounded spouses, head injury help, etc.   Excellent response!

Posted by: Miss Marple at September 01, 2010 06:15 PM (bixjr)

126 Let me know if they ask a hair question.

Posted by: Y-not at September 01, 2010 06:15 PM (osFsP)

127 Remember David Cameron working the camera like a two dollar whore?  Like that.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:15 PM (0hqOl)

128 Boxer is starting to stammer.

Posted by: Miss Marple at September 01, 2010 06:16 PM (bixjr)

129

hmm Carly sounds like she's just repeating talking points now

this is not going so well

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:16 PM (kUEkq)

130 Boxer seems almost unaware of the camera.  Don't tell her.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:16 PM (0hqOl)

131 Babara Boxer Center For Veterans - a coat closet at her Social Club

Posted by: Frank G at September 01, 2010 06:16 PM (4X0aT)

132

"I love the military in a very personal way?"

Um, did she actually just say that?

Oh yes. I believe she did.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at September 01, 2010 06:16 PM (+Yv6G)

133 Oh. In that case, yes. I am a cotton-pickin' genius!

(in reality, I was on a pudding high. Who knew that you could absorb sugar through your nutsack?)

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:16 PM (PA722)

134
"I love the military in a very personal way"
Tr: vote for me and I'll blow you, sailor

Posted by: Atomic Roach at September 01, 2010 06:17 PM (rMMMP)

135 okay, another softball question coming to Boxer

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:17 PM (kUEkq)

136 Someone tell the moderator the tie and the shirt clash.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:17 PM (0hqOl)

137 Tim Tam. Tim Tam!

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 01, 2010 06:17 PM (bAySe)

138 Boxer doesn't see the camera at all.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:18 PM (0hqOl)

139 Was that Lee?

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:18 PM (PA722)

140 Doh! Chinese guy with a kick to Babs nuts.

Posted by: Barbarian at September 01, 2010 06:18 PM (EL+OC)

141 wait, a "clear choice" on abortion?  aren't they both pro-abortion?

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:19 PM (kUEkq)

142 I love the military, just not those that don't call me Senator.

Posted by: StrangernFiction at September 01, 2010 06:19 PM (pOgEW)

143 Four bills in 18 years!!!!  Geezus. 

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:19 PM (0hqOl)

144

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 10:16 PM (PA722)

Well it was excellent.  Props. 

Ahh the martyr complex.  What a fighter. 

Will this shipping jobs overseas/ wall street/ evil private sector schtick play this year?  Even in Cali?

 

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:19 PM (qhdz6)

145 That was great!

Fiorina lists Babs FOUR bills total!

HA!


Posted by: Miss Marple at September 01, 2010 06:19 PM (bixjr)

146
4 bills in 18 years- Boxer is a workaholic!

Posted by: Atomic Roach at September 01, 2010 06:20 PM (rMMMP)

147 Fiorina is pro-life.

Posted by: Nance at September 01, 2010 06:20 PM (uPgdc)

148 Fiorina gots it.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:20 PM (0hqOl)

149 okay THAT was a good answer

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:20 PM (kUEkq)

150 HP ?...gimme frigg'n break.

Posted by: Barbarian at September 01, 2010 06:20 PM (EL+OC)

151 Tom Watson = plant

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 01, 2010 06:20 PM (bAySe)

152 Tom Watson = worst republican evar.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 01, 2010 06:21 PM (bAySe)

153 "aren't they both pro-abortion?"

National Right to Life endorsed Carly.  This was part of Sarah's pitch.

Posted by: someone at September 01, 2010 06:21 PM (DfAwB)

154 Tommy gun answer!

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:21 PM (0hqOl)

155

Boxer couldn't even find those countries that Carly just listed on a map if her life depended on it.

Posted by: laceyunderalls not knowing the context but wanting to chime in and pile on at September 01, 2010 06:21 PM (+Yv6G)

156 Off ONT sock!

Posted by: laceyunderalls at September 01, 2010 06:22 PM (+Yv6G)

157 Great answer on shipping jobs overseas. She's not afraid to teach.

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at September 01, 2010 06:22 PM (iyvmV)

158 Fiorina picks up 3 after this.  Anyone else have a guess?

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:22 PM (0hqOl)

159 Have it on mute... (not listening to Box'O'rocks) but carli looks strong and in control... like it

Posted by: phreshone at September 01, 2010 06:22 PM (1AnxB)

160 Have it on mute... (not listening to Box'O'rocks) but carli looks strong and in control...

How does her hair look? 

Posted by: Y-not at September 01, 2010 06:23 PM (osFsP)

161 Buzzion, but she knocked it into the cheap seats.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:23 PM (0hqOl)

162

I think Carly is doin alright.  She sounds competent.  I've got a bad angle on the TV so I can't see body language very well though.

I think competence plays well this year. 

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:24 PM (qhdz6)

163 WTF was that? Is this fucknut going to ask why Boxer's pay increased?

Then he tells her to STFU so Boxer can beat her up on salary?

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:24 PM (PA722)

164 Boxer:  But what about class envy?

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:24 PM (0hqOl)

165

wow that was a terrific answer from Carly defending her record at HP

she's getting a lot better as she goes

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:24 PM (kUEkq)

166 This is BS

Posted by: Barbarian at September 01, 2010 06:24 PM (EL+OC)

167
It's 5 against 1 with video tag teams to pile on.

Posted by: Atomic Roach at September 01, 2010 06:25 PM (rMMMP)

168 YES - the MA'AM QUESTION

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:25 PM (kUEkq)

169 Ha. Ma'am question.

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:25 PM (PA722)

170

Yes, the Ma'am question!

How fun!

 

Posted by: laceyunderalls at September 01, 2010 06:25 PM (+Yv6G)

171  whoops! Senator Ma'am gets called on assholery

Posted by: Frank G at September 01, 2010 06:25 PM (4X0aT)

172 I am the elite! You WILL BOW!

Posted by: Beto at September 01, 2010 06:26 PM (H+LJc)

173 You don't get to be CEO of a Fortune 100 company if you can't speak in public... Carly has already hit the ball hard enough that it looks like Barb's head is going to pop...

Posted by: phreshone at September 01, 2010 06:26 PM (1AnxB)

174 I take back my BS statement.

Posted by: Barbarian at September 01, 2010 06:26 PM (EL+OC)

175 "Do I owe you an apology? No, not at all!!!" Of course the General said that. He's a professional.

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at September 01, 2010 06:27 PM (iyvmV)

176 Worst managed debate ever.

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:27 PM (PA722)

177

I bet Boxer is an asshole IRL.  The kind of neighbor who rags out your kids from across the hedge.  "You kids are laughing too loud."

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:27 PM (0hqOl)

178 How does her hair look? 

Posted by: Y-not at September 01, 2010 10:23 PM (osFsP)

Like I said, strong, but not in a butchy way 

Posted by: phreshone at September 01, 2010 06:27 PM (1AnxB)

179 Senator Ma'am is really a piece of shit. "Shipping jobs over seas! Fired thousands!" Does this stupid cock-guzzler realize just WHY HP had to do that in the first place? Obviously, not. What a scrunt.

Posted by: yambles at September 01, 2010 06:27 PM (rxaXW)

180 oh that was a dumb ma'am question

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:28 PM (kUEkq)

181 Moderator = dickhead.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 01, 2010 06:28 PM (bAySe)

182 Damiano, it is a screwball format.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:28 PM (0hqOl)

183 How is the world was Carly supposed to answer a question about Boxer's ma'am complex?

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:28 PM (PA722)

184
Gays are denied a thousand Federal rights? WTF?

Posted by: Atomic Roach at September 01, 2010 06:28 PM (rMMMP)

185 I call BS again.

Posted by: Barbarian at September 01, 2010 06:29 PM (EL+OC)

186 Fiorina forgot the camera on that one.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:29 PM (0hqOl)

187 Carly looks like someone who used to handle hostile questions from 50 equity analysts every quarter...

Posted by: phreshone at September 01, 2010 06:29 PM (1AnxB)

188 oh good Senator Ma'am gives a constitutional lecture

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:29 PM (kUEkq)

189 So,  Boxer just says that she will talk about what she wants to talk about.


Posted by: Miss Marple at September 01, 2010 06:31 PM (bixjr)

190 She stole those answers from me.

Posted by: Ross Perot at September 01, 2010 06:31 PM (0hqOl)

191 Pilar needs to lose the accent.

Posted by: Barbarian at September 01, 2010 06:31 PM (EL+OC)

192

Who is the spanish tranny asking questions?

Never heard of her.

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:31 PM (qhdz6)

193

oh god yet another softball question

"when have you disagreed with Obama?"

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:31 PM (kUEkq)

194 This debate is a setup.

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at September 01, 2010 06:32 PM (tm15w)

195
Boxer disagrees with Barack over the new Oval Office makeover. That's about it.

Posted by: Atomic Roach at September 01, 2010 06:32 PM (rMMMP)

196 "We need to be more of a mommy for consumers."  Fiorina needs to bury her on that.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:32 PM (0hqOl)

197

I have 500 bills that I worked with Republicans......You fucking 'rat bastard, you have a lifetime ACU of like 3.

Posted by: StrangernFiction at September 01, 2010 06:32 PM (pOgEW)

198 Sen. Ma'am: My opponent is running on her record, so I will twist it and make exaggerated statements about it. I on the other hand, have no record in 18 years. Now elect me again you peons!

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:32 PM (PA722)

199 Moderator sounds bored and ready to get this over with.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 01, 2010 06:32 PM (bAySe)

200 I get a huge Nancy Pelosi vibe from Boxer. Makes me feel like throwing puppies in a river or something.

Posted by: yambles at September 01, 2010 06:33 PM (rxaXW)

201 oh, carly is pro-life! yay!

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:34 PM (kUEkq)

202 Senator Boxer, Why do you love kittehs so much?
Boxer: Because HP grinds them into outsourced jobs.
Miss Fiorina, Why did HP Grind up kittehs?
Fiorina: Because the senator passed a law that required it.

Posted by: Beto at September 01, 2010 06:34 PM (H+LJc)

203

 I get a huge Nancy Pelosi vibe from Boxer.

Me too.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:34 PM (0hqOl)

204 As a resident of CA, I pray that Carly beats this witch.

Posted by: Skree at September 01, 2010 06:35 PM (HBmnd)

205 227 I get a huge Nancy Pelosi vibe from Boxer. Makes me feel like throwing puppies in a river or something.

Posted by: yambles at September 01, 2010 10:33 PM (rxaXW)

Was it purple?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 01, 2010 06:35 PM (2g2ex)

206 Bullshit

Posted by: Beto at September 01, 2010 06:36 PM (H+LJc)

207 I hate to keep beating the same old media bias drum, but damn, this is a joke.

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:36 PM (qhdz6)

208 Oh, this bullshit emo appeal isn't going to fly.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:36 PM (0hqOl)

209 Boxer off on the abortion nutsy stuff..."Doctors will go to jail."

Posted by: Miss Marple at September 01, 2010 06:36 PM (bixjr)

210 HA - now it's Boxer repeating talking points

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:36 PM (kUEkq)

211 ZOMG!!! No abortion == women dying in the streets!!!!

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at September 01, 2010 06:36 PM (iyvmV)

212 I thought she said 4 both times.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:37 PM (0hqOl)

213
I get a huge Nancy Pelosi vibe from Boxer

They are both getting signals from Pluto telling them what to say.

Posted by: Atomic Roach at September 01, 2010 06:37 PM (rMMMP)

214 Senator Ma'am - STOP WITH THE CIVICS LECTURES

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:37 PM (kUEkq)

215

"A thousand Boxer provisions."

 

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at September 01, 2010 06:37 PM (tm15w)

216 "Women would die, like before Roe v. Wade. I, however, am undead, just like Nancy Pelosi, and will rule you forever?"

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:37 PM (PA722)

217 Oooh, tough question.  When are you going to own this economy?

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:38 PM (0hqOl)

218 Excellent question. I denounce myself for earlier blanket criticism.

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:38 PM (PA722)

219 @240

*Woof!*

Posted by: Pluto at September 01, 2010 06:38 PM (osFsP)

220 Senator Ma'am - "We're getting people back to work - by putting more people on the public payroll!"

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:38 PM (kUEkq)

221 I think instead of cutting off a candidate's answer, they should just loose the right to rebut the next question if their clock goes over too much.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 01, 2010 06:38 PM (bAySe)

222 Oh,  this is good.  At least they are asking her when they cannot blame President Bush any more.

Boxer falls into the trap.  And off she goes into the Bush bashing.

Posted by: Miss Marple at September 01, 2010 06:38 PM (bixjr)

223

500 to a 1000 to a million to a bajillion new jobs.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:38 PM (0hqOl)

224 500 to, uhh.. a thousand, uh.. to a million new jobs!!!

Posted by: Babs at September 01, 2010 06:38 PM (iyvmV)

225 HA - is Senator Ma'am really going to take credit for Clinton's budgets now?

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:38 PM (kUEkq)

226 500 is like a million. Good grief.

Posted by: Barbarian at September 01, 2010 06:39 PM (EL+OC)

227

234 I hate to keep beating the same old media bias drum, but damn, this is a joke.

That's why we call it the People's Republic of California.

Posted by: StrangernFiction at September 01, 2010 06:39 PM (pOgEW)

228 I can't listen to this woman.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 01, 2010 06:39 PM (bAySe)

229 My ringer is in the audience, stand up Ron
Oh! God Love Ya!

Posted by: Beto at September 01, 2010 06:39 PM (H+LJc)

230 This question is teed up for Fiorina.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:40 PM (0hqOl)

231 Wow. Burn!

Posted by: Babs at September 01, 2010 06:40 PM (iyvmV)

232 Sen Ma'am: See! I always voted with Clinton and against Bush. See how bi-partisan I am!

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:40 PM (PA722)

233 Nice.  I want to dip my balls in that answer.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:41 PM (0hqOl)

234 Why the fuck does he say "time is up" after they just finished answering anyways?  WHat a dick!

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 01, 2010 06:41 PM (bAySe)

235 I can't take this shit. Senator Ma'am is unbearable. How can you not listen to her on TV and just know that she is a complete fraud? 232 - Ha. Penis. That brightened my night.

Posted by: yambles at September 01, 2010 06:41 PM (rxaXW)

236

oh what a shocker, another legitimate question to Carly

anybody want to predict the next question to Senator Ma'am?

"Senator Ma'am, when Carly made fun of your hair, how did that make you feel?"

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:41 PM (kUEkq)

237
Global warming is the weather? Who knew?

Posted by: Atomic Roach at September 01, 2010 06:42 PM (rMMMP)

238 What is dees ads suggesting dat gloobal warming is about de weather?

WTF? Is she suggesting that global warming is, instead, only a political game that has nothing to do with the weather?

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:43 PM (PA722)

239 "Senator Boxer, what is your favorite TV show and why?  Would you watch another show?"

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:43 PM (0hqOl)

240 Moderator is a bitch.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:43 PM (0hqOl)

241 Pilar- super-genius

Posted by: Barbarian at September 01, 2010 06:43 PM (EL+OC)

242 Fioria flubbed that one, thanks to the "moderator".

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:44 PM (PA722)

243 Is there anybody who buys this GreenJobs bullshit anymore?

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 01, 2010 06:44 PM (bAySe)

244

See, now, I'm opposed to Prop 23, because - and now let me remind you - when a bill becomes a law, judges put a check on the legislature

Posted by: Senator Ma'am at September 01, 2010 06:44 PM (kUEkq)

245 What ever would we do without California's lead in clean energy?

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at September 01, 2010 06:44 PM (iyvmV)

246

Boxer, yesterday over the fence:  "Kids, I am going to tell you one last time, stop playing during the afternoon.  I don't want to have to tell your parents, but I will if I have to."

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:45 PM (0hqOl)

247 Boxer thinks that government creates jobs.  She has no idea how jobs really come about!

Posted by: sock puppeh at September 01, 2010 06:45 PM (VcPAo)

248 oh good, a young undergrad as an "independent" - yeah right

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:45 PM (kUEkq)

249

"The whole world is going green."

"The coal companies hope I don't get there."

"Green jobs."

horse shit

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at September 01, 2010 06:45 PM (tm15w)

250 270 Is there anybody who buys this GreenJobs bullshit anymore?

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 01, 2010 10:44 PM (bAySe)

Well yeah.


Posted by: Ed Begley Jr at September 01, 2010 06:45 PM (EL+OC)

251
Carli should smack her with the delta smelt here.

Posted by: Atomic Roach at September 01, 2010 06:46 PM (rMMMP)

252

240
I get a huge Nancy Pelosi vibe from Boxer

They are both getting signals from Pluto telling them what to say.

--------

more like signals from Beezlebub.

Posted by: Nance at September 01, 2010 06:46 PM (uPgdc)

253 Fiorina's fricking dead. Can't the Chicoms just repo california already?

Posted by: Vuvuzela at September 01, 2010 06:46 PM (YIzpx)

254

Posted by: sock puppeh at September 01, 2010 10:45 PM (VcPAo)

Further, she not only thinks that the gubbermint creates jobs, she alleges that businesses are responsible for getting rid of them.

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:46 PM (PA722)

255 Boxer is blowing the subsidies question.

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at September 01, 2010 06:46 PM (tm15w)

256

All I can say is if Boxer's down the line typical liberal playbook talking points work this year, with the big lights and media focused on her ugly, haggard visage, Califorina is lost for good.  She is truly pathetic.

Mean and dumb.  Really dumb.  Sounds dumb.  Not even clever like many scumbag pols.

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:47 PM (qhdz6)

257 SMELT !

Posted by: Barbarian at September 01, 2010 06:47 PM (EL+OC)

258 278
Carli should smack her with the delta smelt here.

Posted by: Atomic Roach at September 01, 2010 10:46 PM (rMMMP)


DONE!

Posted by: sock puppeh at September 01, 2010 06:47 PM (VcPAo)

259 *smack* on water - hellllloo Farmers?

Posted by: Frank G at September 01, 2010 06:47 PM (4X0aT)

260
Wow! She did!

Posted by: Atomic Roach at September 01, 2010 06:47 PM (rMMMP)

261 Hard hitting answer.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:47 PM (0hqOl)

262 BTW, I'm not biased at all. 

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:48 PM (0hqOl)

263 oh good, a young undergrad as an "independent" - yeah right

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 10:45 PM (kUEkq)

She refused to join the College Socialists Club so to the media she is a centrist independent.

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:48 PM (qhdz6)

264 I hate living in this fuckstick state

Posted by: California Resident at September 01, 2010 06:49 PM (HBmnd)

265 Are the people in cali really this dumb?

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at September 01, 2010 06:49 PM (ib45C)

266

so, let's recap:

boxer gets a question from young undergrad "independent"

fiorina gets a question from a straight-up democrat

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:49 PM (kUEkq)

267 Sigh, I'm reading because I can't stand watching "call me Senator" Boxer.  That being said, your comments aren't making me feel any better.

Posted by: securitymom at September 01, 2010 06:49 PM (oHUi9)

268 "Carli, you ignorant slut!"

Posted by: sock puppeh at September 01, 2010 06:49 PM (VcPAo)

269 This is a fiasco of a campaign commercial for Senator Mam

Posted by: Beto at September 01, 2010 06:49 PM (H+LJc)

270

Mean and dumb.  Really dumb.  Sounds dumb.  Not even clever like many scumbag pols.

Ayup.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:49 PM (0hqOl)

271

Posted by: sock puppeh at September 01, 2010 10:45 PM (VcPAo)

Further, she not only thinks that the gubbermint creates jobs, she alleges that businesses are responsible for getting rid of them.

----------------------------------------------------------

All government, no business, presto Utopia.

Posted by: StrangernFiction at September 01, 2010 06:50 PM (pOgEW)

272 292 Are the people in cali really this dumb?

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at September 01, 2010 10:49 PM (ib45C)


Well yeah.

Posted by: Ed Begley Jr at September 01, 2010 06:50 PM (EL+OC)

273 "Where do I start..." = I lost this round.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 01, 2010 06:50 PM (bAySe)

274 It goes from No Fly List to the fucking TERRORIST WATCH LIST...

Posted by: yambles at September 01, 2010 06:50 PM (rxaXW)

275 Devastating answer by Carly on guns. Really impressive.

Babs spouting embarrassing nonsense as usual.

Posted by: Robert_Paulson at September 01, 2010 06:50 PM (+NFD5)

276 292 Are the people in cali really this dumb?

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at September 01, 2010 10:49 PM (ib45C)

That word that means the answer is in the question.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 01, 2010 06:50 PM (2g2ex)

277 I think she's off the crapper onto the floor

Posted by: Beto at September 01, 2010 06:50 PM (H+LJc)

278 They are both sounding dumber as the debate progresses, but Boxer is getting dumb at a faster rate,

Posted by: Wm T Sherman at September 01, 2010 06:51 PM (tm15w)

279 So, time is up, but I get one more shot to kneecap Fiorina - Boxer, wanna help?

Posted by: Debate "Moderator" at September 01, 2010 06:52 PM (kUEkq)

280 Pre 1980   The cowboy era

Posted by: Beto at September 01, 2010 06:52 PM (H+LJc)

281

CF could beat this hag like a baby seal and it won't matter. This is california

Posted by: booter at September 01, 2010 06:52 PM (eimUK)

282  Yikes! The Assault weapons ban kept our streets safe! Stupid Ma'am

Posted by: Frank G at September 01, 2010 06:52 PM (4X0aT)

283 Umm.. Carli, you need to STFU. You were making a dig against the Royal Senator Ma'am. Would you like to talk more Senator?

Posted by: Moderator at September 01, 2010 06:52 PM (PA722)

284 Green Job = picking up dead birds with a nail on the end of a stick in the middle of a wind turbine field. Said field is also in the middle of the fucking desert. For this job - everyone must go to college on the taxpayer dime.

Posted by: roadkill gatherer at September 01, 2010 06:53 PM (HBmnd)

285 All in all, Fiorina is a strong debater. She comes off as competent, smart, and well informed. I know she's not perfect, but I kinda like her.

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at September 01, 2010 06:54 PM (iyvmV)

286 Senator, the people love you like a mother. Why is that and why do they hate Carly??

Posted by: Moderator at September 01, 2010 06:54 PM (H+LJc)

287 Boxer too negative.  She's a Bob Dole negative force.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:55 PM (0hqOl)

288 Did she just say that she is fighting for taxes on small businesses?

Posted by: Moderator at September 01, 2010 06:55 PM (PA722)

289 WTF?

Posted by: Beto at September 01, 2010 06:55 PM (H+LJc)

290
Carli wins 5 on 1 steel cage match. Boxer limps off with "Maid in America" whine.

Posted by: Atomic Roach at September 01, 2010 06:55 PM (rMMMP)

291

god Senator Ma'am is just a caricature of every libtard talking point

how could she have been in the senate for 18 fucking years?

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:55 PM (kUEkq)

292 Boxer, the gloom and doom candidate.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:56 PM (0hqOl)

293 Boxer comes across as a total early 90's retread.

Posted by: Serious Cat at September 01, 2010 06:57 PM (bAySe)

294 cant watch but tempted to...don't want to jinx

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 06:57 PM (lV4Fs)

295 Well, 500, 100, a million, a bajillion new jobs sounds good.  It's like "X amount of dollars."  And that's a lot.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 06:57 PM (0hqOl)

296 Boxer's closing remarks are really embarrassing. Even for an idiot liberal. How is it that these people can EVER be trusted with the economy?

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at September 01, 2010 06:57 PM (iyvmV)

297 Carli seems reasonably well prepared, but fell flat on too many issues.

Boxer is... well... Sen. Ma'am. She's a caricature of herself.

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 06:57 PM (PA722)

298 Boxer too negative.  She's a Bob Dole negative force.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 10:55 PM (0hqOl)

Agreed.  I don't think it plays well at all.  Then again, its Cali, and she's won three times before.  Hasn't really been challanged since 92 though, when she slimed her opponent who's name is escaping me at the moment.  Prager's friend.

Posted by: Delta Smelt in SC at September 01, 2010 06:58 PM (qhdz6)

299

Boxer Bloz !

Posted by: Krazy Kat at September 01, 2010 06:58 PM (2DxKT)

300

don't worry CAC it's over

let me summarize for you:

Fiorina: started out slow, but got a lot better by the end

Boxer: whiny hag, playing the standard class warfare games

"Moderator": looking to kneecap Fiorina

Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 06:58 PM (kUEkq)

301 "Moderator": looking to kneecap Fiorina Posted by: chemjeff at September 01, 2010 10:58 PM (kUEkq) Yeah, and looking to 'kneepad' boxer.

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at September 01, 2010 07:00 PM (iyvmV)

302 Other than the two kneecap questions that Boxer got (and the Mod did his best to paper over), this didn't do much to strengthen my hopes for this race.

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 07:00 PM (PA722)

303 so, since they will never admit Fiorina WON, did she do good enough for the MFM to say "it was a tie"

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 07:02 PM (lV4Fs)

304 Somehow, we just gotta fire that old bitch BoxerMa'am and send her back to Oz. Old insane liberal scrunts make me sick to my ass.

Posted by: sifty at September 01, 2010 07:03 PM (PJJWW)

305

Boxer: whiny hag, playing the standard class warfare games

Unfortunately, this is probably enough to win her a fourth term in the cess-pool that is California.

With all due respect to my fellow American citizens in California, but what the f--k is wrong with you? 

I watched this entire debate, and although I'll agree Fiorina improved throughout, it just seems like Boxer will win again. 

To paraphrase Jim Morrison:  "Every state gets the politicians it deserves"

Posted by: Olliander at September 01, 2010 07:03 PM (j4xgZ)

306 Its BDPR California. The liberal "I'll save you from the eeeeeeeeeeevil Republikkkans and their back-alley abortions/assault weapons/tax cuts/land wars in asia/global warming" will play. We're boned.

Posted by: Vuvuzela at September 01, 2010 07:05 PM (YIzpx)

307 #336 Boxer has been repeating this for weeks though. Her standing in the polls and her approval rating are both stuck in the 40s. Usually that kicks in to boost her up into the 50s by now. It hasn't so don't write California off.

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 07:08 PM (lV4Fs)

308 I don't understand why conservatives reaching for a seat like Boxer's don't say something like; "Hey the voters trusted you for 18 years to take care of them.  What happened?"

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at September 01, 2010 07:09 PM (ib45C)

309 NOooooooooooooo, "call me Senator" can't win!  I am already disgusted with my state.  We CAN'T  elect her again.  I think Carly will win without the debate.  I don't know many people who are watching, it was on at 7:00 here. 

Posted by: securitymom at September 01, 2010 07:09 PM (oHUi9)

310 332 so, since they will never admit Fiorina WON, did she do good enough for the MFM to say "it was a tie" Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 11:02 PM (lV4Fs) I'd like to think so, but didn't the MFM try to say that Biden won the VP debate in '08? Did they even call it a tie when Cheney curb-stomped Edwards in '04?

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at September 01, 2010 07:09 PM (iyvmV)

311 As a California resident, I can only say that most conservatives here are planning to leave or climb clock towers if this madhouse doesn't get some new managers.

Posted by: sifty at September 01, 2010 07:10 PM (PJJWW)

312

My weiner says "Carly won"

 

 

Posted by: Oscar Meyer at September 01, 2010 07:11 PM (MYPWc)

313 Sifty, one of the many reason I left CO was because all the libtards moved there when the housing went crazy in the late 90's.

Posted by: Rickshaw Jack at September 01, 2010 07:12 PM (ib45C)

314 It's Mexifornia.
Too late to stop it - no matter who is in charge.

Posted by: ghost707 at September 01, 2010 07:14 PM (BNk7G)

315 CA libtards are like locusts.

They have sucked CA dry and now they are moving on and insist that their Utopian Paradise will work this time in other states. AZ, CO and TX are getting the brunt of this invading plague of locusts.

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 07:16 PM (PA722)

316 Well, that was fun..Glad I paid my cable bill last month. Boxer stumbled a bit, and Fiorina could not bring herself to say OIL  when the Global Warming Q came up?    did i miss something?

Posted by: Long Hair'd Country Boy at September 01, 2010 07:17 PM (OeYEC)

317 345 CA libtards are like locusts.

So are NJ libtards.  Lots of them moved to NC and are dragging that state leftward.

Posted by: Gran at September 01, 2010 07:18 PM (kmmbv)

318 Nutsac Bee called it for Boxer. Typical...

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 07:24 PM (lV4Fs)

319 Green jobs, Wall Street, teachers, teachers, teachers--this is electoral poo flinging.

Carly was amazing and so much better than when she was on Mav's team. Babs looked like a city council wannabe.

But I fear Ca will elect her again. Lord help us.

Posted by: PJ at September 01, 2010 07:25 PM (Fyjeu)

320 - When Fiorina was at HP, she was great at shameless self promotion, and her skills in the political arena will only improve with time. - Babs is too arrogant and ignorant to have the good sense to avoid debates like this. The more the public sees, the more they think of the hair-brained nag of a teachers they had to endure before they escaped the public school gulags. Stupid bitch are 2 words I very rarely use together, but Babs is just that and no more - Yeh Fiorina's a RINO, but first we dump Boxer, then we either Palinize Carly or replace her in the next set of primaries. One step at a time.

Posted by: cali grump at September 01, 2010 07:26 PM (1tJr/)

321 The race is still a tossup. The people who were most interested in watching the debate were probably those whose minds were made up, at least this early. I would like Rasmussen's balls to drop so he can adjust his poll sampling to Survey USAs which reflects a surge in Republican enthusiasm in the state. He is still using the 2006/2008 turnout model, and with THAT model he has Boxer ahead. With Survey USA, she loses by 5, and loses the LA area by 1.

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 07:28 PM (lV4Fs)

322 Fiorina picks up 3. 

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 07:29 PM (0hqOl)

323 Why do I have a bad feeling this will be the first of many bad nights for the Republican Party? Oh right, most of the country isnt paying attention and get their news from the mono-dailies, the MFMTV, and John Fucking Stewart. To say we havent won fuck all yet is an understatement-there's a damn good reason Cook et al. havent put us in the lead (even in the House) yet and some handicappers still have the dems relatively comfortable.

Posted by: Vuvuzela at September 01, 2010 07:30 PM (YIzpx)

324 california morons- http://www.ktvu.com/index.html scroll down to the poll, make sure to vote. currently Fiorina leads 48-46

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 07:31 PM (lV4Fs)

325 This is a Bay Area station too so I am surprised the poll is so even up there...

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 07:32 PM (lV4Fs)

326 "352 Fiorina picks up 3."


Hope!

(voted, 354)

Posted by: PJ at September 01, 2010 07:34 PM (Fyjeu)

327 Despite the fact that:

1.The voter identification gap between the GOP and the Democrats is at a historic low

2. GOP voters are markedly more enthusiastic

3. The GOP is consistently turning out more voters for primaries

4. The President's approval rating is in the toilet

 I will continue repeating my Debbie Downer talking points until at least one of you admits to being thoroughly demoralized.

Posted by: Vuvuzela at September 01, 2010 07:39 PM (Snu7z)

328 #357 Debbie Downer'ing would have worked months ago, but too many are now on this wavelength that we could actually not just win, but sweep. I give you an A for effort. But you missed the "omg GOP shoots self in face" talking point or the "oh well all is doomed Boxer will win because California is just California lol" Gotta use ALL the dispiriting terms...

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 07:43 PM (lV4Fs)

329 vuvu, throw yourself down a couple of flights of stairs.

Posted by: Uncle Jed at September 01, 2010 07:47 PM (xRcKp)

330 BR549 Junior Samples would make a better congress critter than boxer. (and i think he's dead)

Posted by: Long Hair'd Country Boy at September 01, 2010 07:56 PM (3B3Ma)

331 She said what Democrats have always said: raise taxes, ban guns, bailouts for teachers, and money for green jobs. Nothing that would really give the idea that she has a plan to salvage the California economy.

Well, crap.  Since California voters are loony tunes anyway, this probably means Boxer will be re-elected.  Why are some of the Republicans so reluctant to really go after the Democrats?  Being nice and polite will get you killed at the polls.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 01, 2010 08:08 PM (eNxMU)

332 Most Dems are now saying "yes, things are fucked up, but JUST IMAGINE how bad it would be if we weren't in office..." Lame

Posted by: rawmuse at September 01, 2010 08:11 PM (bTrk5)

333 FUCKING PATHETIC- O'Donnell camp now peddling gay sex rumor about Mike Castle. "A conservative firm until recently employed by the Delaware primary campaign of conservative Christine O'Donnell against Rep. Mike Castle casually leveled an extraordinary — and unsupported — charge of a gay affair against Castle in a video posted to its website today, the ugliest salvo yet in an extremely bitter primary. The newscast-style video on Liberty.com features a woman seated before a backdrop of Liberty.com's Las Vegas headquarters, criticizing Castle and praising O'Donnell. "Isn't Mike Castle cheating on his wife with a man?" asks a voice off-screen at the 1:55 mark. "That's the rumor," answers the newscaster. (A short clip of the exchange is above.) My colleague Dave Catanese reported earlier this month that O'Donnell's spokesman, Yates Walker, works for Liberty.com, and the American Spectator described Eric Odom, the group's founder, as having "joined Team O'Donnell" to organize online support. Walker told me he and the firm left the campaign two weeks ago and produced the video on their own. "We asked the question, we didn't specifically say it," he said of the gay affair charge, which he said was "common knowledge" in Delaware. "We thought we'd throw it out there." Walker said he had no compunction about repeating the rumor about Castle because "he's a threat to American sovereignty." He didn't offer any evidence for the claim." Yeah, when you make shit up its amazing how crazy it gets! Pathetic. PLEASE for the love of God do not vote for this charlatan.

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 08:11 PM (lV4Fs)

334 #92 Mama Winger For what it's worth I made a pray for the Goertz family.

Posted by: Lord Cochrane at September 01, 2010 08:16 PM (9MFtN)

335

As much as I hate Barbara Boxer, I hate Carly Fiorina more.

Boxer's campaign should be running the following ad 24x7:

"My opponent took one of the most successful tech companies in America [Hewlett-Packard] and ran it into the ground, and then golden parachuted out. Do you want her for senator?"

Posted by: The Shep at September 01, 2010 08:18 PM (xdx4h)

336 #365 thats the spirit. Why bother to back the Republican and rid us of Boxer when you can bitch about the Republican and then lack the ability to then bitch about Boxer for the next 6 years?

Posted by: CAC at September 01, 2010 08:21 PM (lV4Fs)

337

So we should promote someone who ran one of the biggest tech companies in America into the ground to the office of a US Senator, where they can wreak even more havoc?

This election is all supposed to be about competence; throwing the incompetent democrats out of office; not promoting a known incompetent under the (R) brand where she can do even more damage.

Posted by: The Shep at September 01, 2010 08:31 PM (xdx4h)

338 Boxer is bad enough that I would vote for anyone instead of her.

Alas, I live in Texas and can't do anything about her. Unfortunately, on the House side of things, this means I am stuck with Sheila Jackson Lee and can't do shit about her either.

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 08:34 PM (PA722)

339 Well I'm not sure what I was expecting but I am now watching the debate.  I think Carly is winning hands down.  I think she can win.

Posted by: securitymom at September 01, 2010 08:35 PM (oHUi9)

340 Take a chance, The Shep.  We know what Boxer stands for.  She's a simple-minded bureaucratic party fixture--not worth a damn over the years, unless you count growing government.  Maybe the country wont suffer the equivalent of a tech bust while Fiorina is up there, and you won't be able to blame her for driving it into the ground. 

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 08:37 PM (0hqOl)

341 Fiorina did fine.  I think a lot of what this debate was about was simply seeing them side by side, seeing whether Fiorina is the real deal.  People know Boxer.  They needed to get to know Fiorina better.  As long as Fiorina didn't screw the pooch, she was going to be golden.  The test for Fiorina was "Can she stand there?"  A draw was a win for her.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 08:41 PM (0hqOl)

342 I am voting for Fiorina because Boxer is too short to ride the rides at Disneyland. That reason sucks, but it will do for now.

Posted by: rawmuse at September 01, 2010 08:41 PM (bTrk5)

343 Oh, and The Shep, what's worse?  The jobs lost during Fiorina's tenure, while she was trying to save the company, or the jobs lost during this recession?  Why would you weight the jobs lost during Fiorina's tenure at HP while trying to save the compay any more heavily than the jobs lost during Boxer's during this recession?  In fact, why wouldn't you grade Boxer even more harshly?  The morass that Boxer and her pals have driven this country into is several orders of magnitude worse than what Fiorina did at HP.  You flat-out ignored Boxer while putting a microscope on Fiorina.  Not the most rational analysis.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 08:47 PM (0hqOl)

344

"Boxer is my kinda gal"!

Rachael Maddow/Mike Tyson/Attila the Hun
and Chris Matthews agree!

Posted by: grizzlybarebare at September 01, 2010 08:47 PM (5Zqvh)

345 "there's a damn good reason Cook et al. havent put us in the lead"

Yes -- he's a Democrat.

Duh.

Don't be complacent, but this is about the stupidest time ever to be a fucking eeyore.

Posted by: someone at September 01, 2010 08:49 PM (DfAwB)

346 I do so love saying "while she was trying to save the company."  That's the first thing I say when I get up every morning.  In fact, instead of cursing when I make an editing error, I simply shout "while she was trying to save the company!"  Makes me feel better about life, the universe, and everything.

Posted by: rdbrewer at September 01, 2010 08:50 PM (0hqOl)

347 "Alas, I live in Texas and can't do anything about her. Unfortunately, on the House side of things, this means I am stuck with Sheila Jackson Lee and can't do shit about her either."

You know what it does mean, though?

It means you can primary KBH and Cornyn the hell out of office in 2012 and 2014.  The latter day will be especially sweet.

Posted by: someone at September 01, 2010 08:51 PM (DfAwB)

348 If you want a fair debate, have Babs debate the posters over at HA.

Posted by: Barbarian at September 01, 2010 08:55 PM (EL+OC)

349 The Shep at September 02, 2010 12:31 AM (xdx4h)

Lessee, no trace of the hash on search engines, here defending Boxer...  Tell me I'm wrong.

Posted by: someone at September 01, 2010 09:02 PM (DfAwB)

350 We are going to fire Boxer. This is the year.

Posted by: sifty at September 01, 2010 09:08 PM (PJJWW)

351 Malor: "Also Boxer might have hurt herself with some independents because she lectured patronizingly..."

Tell me about it. Ma'am really has a Sidewinder up her ass when she speaks in public.

Posted by: Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh's Inner Monologue at September 01, 2010 09:17 PM (swuwV)

352 @someone Oh yeah. Cornyn is dead to me. He and I will be having a nice talk about his vote for Timmy the Tax Cheat and his other RINO BS. KBH has also lived too long... off the gov't teet. I just wish something could be done this year with SJL. Bitch is an embarrassment.

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 09:39 PM (PA722)

353 forgive me if this has been discussed but tonight I heard a repeat of a batchelor interview of du pont.  this fearless dem thinks that the unpopularity of BO greases the skids for hillary to come forward and become president.  In fact he seems to think she is a major threat for the next four presidential elections.  I thought to myself that this guy must need new glasses.  But he went on and on about what an accomplished woman she is, and the country needs her.  He did say, however that BO might be politically saavy and name her as the new VP to prevent her from running against him which this guy said would be tiring and she could win.  He said then that VP spot would position her to take the presidency in the next election.  So I guess this is the democratic strategy.  

i like carly, have always liked carly even when they said she was screwing up at HP.....Mark proved that she did one hell of a job at HP cause he certainly failed miserably.

Posted by: . at September 01, 2010 09:41 PM (p302b)

354 rdbrewer has it right. Debates aren't really about "winning" versus "losing," especially the asinine way they are moderated these days. What this is about is making a case and presenting yourself to the voters. It's not a football game or a boxing match. "Knockout" blows mean very little. The main question is, Did Fiorina advance her cause or detract from it? Babs is not going to move her campaign forward from this point; it's all about her opponent's position with the undecideds.

Posted by: Fresh Air at September 01, 2010 09:44 PM (mNG9h)

355 3 I really, really, really hope Fiorina makes her look foolish...

Fiorina doesn't have to make Boxer look foolish.  Boxer is doing a bang up job of that herself.

Posted by: Foole in the rain at September 01, 2010 09:52 PM (pELFl)

356 On the Pres. Hillary note... We need to get some better folks in the hopper before 2012. At this point, I can Chicago Jesus getting a second term and I figure that just about any R is a shoo in. Then again, I can't imagine how anyone with a pulse voted for the empty suit in the first place. 2016 gets scarier. If Obamacare doesn't get repealed by the end of 2011, it ain't going anywhere. By 2016, it's going to be a full grown, unfunded, trillion $$ pig. Whomever is in the White House is going to be stuck with it and take the fall. I figure we've got this election and 2012 to pull our asses out of the cesspool we're in entirely, or the "Lost Decade" will look like a Utopian fantasy for the US. That means both houses this year and grow some unbelievable candidate by 2012 that's good for at least two terms and has coat tails to spare for their VP afterwards.

Posted by: Damiano at September 01, 2010 10:04 PM (PA722)

357

49 Fuck you. This is the only race I can win and I'll be damned if it's taken from me.

You wish. There isn't a single drop of melanin in the whole state.  And cities celebrate Mexico's Independence here.



Posted by: Limp Dick Oregon GOP at September 01, 2010 10:07 PM (pELFl)

358 so the dimwits in congress are bought and paid for by their representatives: unions, trial lawyers, and ecoterrorists. the rest of the people in california are merely  money trees waiting to be shaken when the money gets low.  greece is going to seem like a firecracker compared to the nuclear bomb that's going to go off when california explodes from government waste and fraud.


california: if you're not taking than you're getting taken. god help the rest of us if these zombies come to our states. 

Posted by: befuddled at September 01, 2010 10:14 PM (xJU23)

359 Things I didn't know about Fiorina before the debate:
She supports the DREAM Act, but not "amnesty." Yea right
She wants to repeal Roe v. Wade and return to a state-by-state, "let the voters decide" approach to abortion.  Can do that because she knows CA is fine. Will vote for liberal judges though.
She wants to repeal DADT. Supports "gay marriage"
She refused to take a stand on Prop 23, which would overturn California's greenhouse gas emissions scheme. Cap and Trader  in waiting.

Man, should be her name should be FioRINO but I guess it's the best you can expect from California, for now. But I think we did this already with Ahrnold.

Posted by: Rocks at September 01, 2010 10:14 PM (ivAmM)

360 Cripes, Rocks! She's a thousand times better than Babs. Count yer blessings, man.

Posted by: Fresh Air at September 01, 2010 10:45 PM (mNG9h)

361 For Those Who Would Like, Here's 2 Videos From the Boxer/Fiorina Debate

Posted by: newser at September 01, 2010 11:39 PM (V45rX)

362 All I need to know is that I would crawl over broken glass to pull the lever for someone other than Boxer. Syphilitic crack whore? -- no problem. "Sparky, the talking dog"? -- sure. Hannibal the cannibal? -- absolutely! Satan Mekratrig? -- where do I sign, and with what?

I'm no great fan of Carly -- there are reasons she's no longer CEO of HP. But she's head-and-shoulders above the sort of creature I'd be willing to vote for in order to vote against Boxer. And she'd caucus with Republicans -- BONUS!!!!

She could campaign on a platform of "infant sacrifice and I'm not Boxer" and I'd chant it at rallies. I don't need to hear her talking points; I don't need to see her debate. She should stand up, state clearly "I am NOT Barbara Boxer", and sit down so far as I am concerned. I don't care if she's for or against abortion up to and including the age of 62.....so long as she kicks Boxer to the curb.


Posted by: cthulhu at September 01, 2010 11:41 PM (/0IOT)

363 cthulhu - You and me both.

Anyone, anything is preferable to Boxer.  Vertibrate, invertibrate, legs, roots, flippers, or fins, if it can get onto the ballot I'll vote for it.

Jesus Christ or bacteria, if it's not Boxer I'm pushing the button.

I'm sure we're not alone.  In the current economic climate and given what the Dems have done to the central valley Sedum Brevifolium could pull 40% against Babs.

Carly just has to avoid scaring the suburban independents. 

Posted by: JEM at September 02, 2010 12:20 AM (o+SC1)

364 Fiorina would not have been my first choice but I hope she can pull it off. She has the "big mo" right now. In the last poll from the Ras he shifted it from leaning Dem to toss-up".

He is calling it a dead heat. In CA an incumbent Dem in a dead heat with a political newcomer Republican is unheard of.

Posted by: Vic at September 02, 2010 01:11 AM (/jbAw)

365 I'm glad I don't live there.

Posted by: Ed Anger at September 02, 2010 02:02 AM (7+pP9)

366
Gabe,

That is one of the best recaps that my attention deficit has been able to follow. I hope Fiorina reads this and sharpens her approach cause we all benefit when Boxer cuts cut loose. Even for a simple dip.

Come to think of it, has anyone given any thought to the anti-dip?

Posted by: sTevo at September 02, 2010 02:15 AM (VMcEw)

367

Sweetness & Light is being sued by Righthaven. They currently operate at a loss and could use some financial support.

Posted by: Ed Anger at September 02, 2010 02:33 AM (7+pP9)

368 My impression was that she was over-prepared on this and thought she had to regurgitate every last factoid she'd memorized. It was the wrong approach.

This approach is typical of corporate types like Fiorina.

Posted by: Neo at September 02, 2010 03:19 AM (tE8FB)

369 Fiorina did the classy thing and let it go.

It's time for Republicans to stop doing the classy thing and start pounding the shit out of these statist scumbags with a big rhetorical hammer.

Posted by: real joe at September 02, 2010 03:56 AM (w7Lv+)

370
Police: Woman struck husband in crotch, head with crowbar

A 61-year-old woman upset with her husband struck him in the crotch with a crowbar and then hit him in the head with it, Stroud Area Regional police said.

Dale D. Morris, of Stroudsburg, was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and reckless endangerment and sent to Monroe County Correctional Facility on $10,000 bail.

[ . . . ]

When police asked her where she hit her husband, Dale Morris responded, she "hit him in the -----because he deserved it," according to an arrest affidavit.

Posted by: Ed Anger at September 02, 2010 04:16 AM (7+pP9)

371

GREAT NEWS!!!

Only 472,000 new jobless claims filed this week.

That's 3,000 less than forecast!

Recovery Summer FTW!!!

Posted by: Ed Anger at September 02, 2010 04:34 AM (7+pP9)

372 It's time for Republicans to stop doing the classy thing and start pounding the shit out of these statist scumbags with a big rhetorical hammer.

It doesn't sound like Boxer was pulling any punches.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at September 02, 2010 04:45 AM (FkKjr)

373 It doesn't sound like Boxer was pulling any punches.

Let me know when a Dem "does the classy thing."

Posted by: real joe at September 02, 2010 04:49 AM (w7Lv+)

374 When police asked her where she hit her husband, Dale Morris responded, she "hit him in the -----because he deserved it," according to an arrest affidavit.

He probably did.

Posted by: dagny at September 02, 2010 04:54 AM (tkzth)

375 it's going to be the feminist dog whistle all the way.

I see what you did there.

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Posted by: Ben at September 02, 2010 05:08 AM (wuv1c)

378 A simple message to Cali voters - just vote against every incumbent (or retread like Brown). Simple.

Posted by: Jean at September 02, 2010 05:19 AM (Hx1qz)

379 I thought Fiorina did well,  and I do not understand all of the criticisms on here.

Yes,  she had a lot of facts.  FACTS are good things.  You just cannot say "Boxer doesn't have a good record."  You have to demonstrate WHY!

Fiorina looked professional,  normal,  and NOT CRAZY.   Boxer looked like a lunatic,  and spoke patronizingly and in that pseudo valley girl voice.  Fiorina demonstrated that she understood business.  Boxer did not.

The killler thing for Boxer was that she made her typical "I support the troops although not the war" statement and Fiorina came back with FACTS about military support she had voted against.

I think some of you guys think this is scored on points.  Nope.  This is to introduce the candidates to the voters (for challengers) and if you already hate Boxer (as demonstrated by the polls) then all you needed to see was that Fiorina wasn't a crazy person or some sort of extremist.

Fiorina was successful.

Posted by: Miss Marple at September 02, 2010 05:22 AM (bixjr)

380
I'm sorry to hear is was so mushy.  Republicans must take off the gloves and fight the street fight with these creeps.


Posted by: Lemon Kitten at September 02, 2010 05:42 AM (0fzsA)

381 Lemon kitten,  I did not find it mushy at all.   Fiorina came out against Boxer in her opening statement.

You should see if it's up on YouTube and watch for yourself.   There are a lot of armchair critics and a few eeyores here. 

I think she did well.

Posted by: Miss Marple at September 02, 2010 05:51 AM (bixjr)

382 I too think Carly did well.  The (ill informed *cough*) people of California needed to see a well informed, classy candidate in contrast to the shrill, uniformed extremist "call me Senator" Boxer.  Carly's job was first introduce herself to all of California, that includes R/D/and I's.  She needed to show that she would be able to represent *ALL* of Calif.  She did what was needed, otherwise "call be Senator" Boxer's staff would not be talking about another debate...and they are.

Posted by: securitymom at September 02, 2010 08:26 AM (oHUi9)

383

I do not live in California but caught the debate on CSPAN. I learned some things about California. But from an outsiders view, and not knowing much about the cadidates, I can say that Fiorina is much much intelligent and articualte than Boxer. A good blow to Boxer would be:

Boxer: "You oppose the federal funds that will keep 16,000 teachers employed."

Fiorina: "The funds are temporary and will be picked up by taxpayers when those funds run out. Instead of taking more money from the government why don't we find ways to cut wasteful spending and give taxpayers a break."

 

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