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From John King, the replay:
Asked by a St. Louis radio station whether she [McCain campaign surrogate Carly Fiorina] thought Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin could run a company like Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina responded: “No, I don’t.
“But that’s not what she’s running for. Running a corporation is a different set of things.”
Asked about that remark on MSNBC, she made the same unprompted assessment of the GOP presidential nominee. “I don’t think John McCain could run a major corporation.”
She also said she did not believe Democrats Barack Obama or Joe Biden had the right business background either.
The call:
A top McCain official contacted by CNN said, on condition on anonymity, “No big deal, but not how you get on the surrogate all-star team. Very Biden-like.”
The penalty:
This campaign source said Fiorina would be discouraged from additional media interviews.
Another top campaign adviser was far less diplomatic.
“Carly will now disappear,” this source said. “Senator McCain was furious.” Asked to define “disappear,” this source said, adding that she would be off TV for a while – but remain at the Republican National Committee and keep her role as head of the party’s joint fundraising committee with the McCain campaign.
Fiorina was booked for several TV interviews over the next few days, including one on CNN. Those interviews have been canceled.
A third source said “it was another bad day for her, and important people are mad because the timing is horrible… But I would not necessarily buy the Siberia storyline.”
Hattip Progress Ohio.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 11:59 am September 17th, 2008 in Campaigning, John McCain, Sarah Palin, WH2008
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Heh, heh. I’m sorry, but that just makes me chuckle. It was a candid moment of truth spoken amid a blizzard of untruths.
I would not mind seeing her vanish…wouldnt be a huge loss really. Or a loss at all.
She spoke at my graduation 8 years ago and I wished she would vanish them. Much as I hate to support McCain (even indirectly), I have very little respect for Fiorina’s corporate leadership ability OR judgment after watching her run Hewlett Packard into the ground.