Carly Fiorina is many things. She’s a God-fearing Christian woman who was once regarded as one of the most powerful women in the business world. She’s a fierce blond who leads with a “my way or the highway” attitude, a stubborn and callous leadership quality that has not always worked out in her favor. She’s one of the few Conservatives running for an elected position in 2010 who was actually called out by the Wall Street Journal for her horrendous 3 1/2 demon sheep campaign ad which Tars Tarkas featured yesterday. She also likes to refer to herself in the third person a lot when she tweets.
Speaking of bad decisions, Carly’s campaign slogan used to be “Carlyfornia Dreamin’!” which I guess is supposed to tap into that 20-35 male demographic of “dudes who love MILFs”. More recently, with her sheep ad, the slogan has changed to “FCINO“, which for obvious reason doesn’t make for that great of a slogan (considering that upon first reference no one knows what the fuck you’re talking about), but poor decision making has never gotten in the way of Carly Fiorina’s ability to run her operation (in a downward direction).
One of the best ways to illustrate Carly’s lack of proper leadership skills and ability to govern can be taken by example of how she ran her propsering Silicon Valley company, which she became CEO of in 1999, straight out to pasture (ha!). As the acting chief financial officer of Hewlitt-Packard, Carly quickly became one of the most loathed parts of the company for insisting that HP buy failing computer manufacturer Compaq. Her decision to go through with the aquisition, despite moans and groans from her board of directors as well as her employees, earned her the title of “worst CEO in Silicon Valley history“. Her reputation and leadership was so bad in fact that when she was booted from HP in 2005 the stock price of the company shot way up. Calbuzz also made reference to some dubious business she was behind with Iran, selling tens of millions of dollars worth of HP equipment to a country that was on the Axis of Evil list, while still seated as CEO.
Besides her horrible attack ad, there isn’t much to discuss when it comes to Carly Fiorina and politics. This is mostly due to the fact that she has had no real career in politics, yet she’s running for a senate seat in the most populous and biggest economic state in the Union. Otherwise this article would be chock full of political punditry. It makes you think though, if Fiorina was so hated and despised as CEO of HP for her awful business decisions, how much more ire would she draw from the citizens, or employees if you will, of California if and when elected? I just hope that she doesn’t send her army of techno-killer sheep after us when she loses the primary.
