McCain Spokeswoman-Fiorina: Palin is not qualified to run a major business.

[kpete]

Fiorina: Palin is not qualified to run a major business.

Appearing on the McGraw-Hill Show on St. Louis radio, McCain spokeswoman and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) was not qualified to run a major business — but that it didn’t matter:

QUESTION: Do you think has the experience to run a major company, like Hewlett Packard?

FIORINA: No, I don’t. But you know what? That’s not what she’s running for. Running a corporation is a different set of things.

LISTEN:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/16/fiorina-palin-business/

[hatrack]

1. No, no, Carly!! You "run the government LIKE A BUSINESS", right? Right??

:eyes:

[wilt the stilt]

2. Carly

you weren't qualified to run a business and your results show it.

[blondeatlast]

11. Beat me to it. nt

[JohnnyBoots]

18. Yeah, but she made 40 + million off of being incompetent. Seems fair.

[crazylikafox]

3. ....

:rofl: :wtf:

[gaiilonfong]

4. Fiorina is a tool and reTHUGlican LIAR

LMAO...this coming from someone who ran HP in the ground, and today they are laying off 20,000 more people...
Yeah right Carly we should listen to you

AND Carly you are a SEXIST THUG for saying that about Lipstick Palin

[nickyt]

5. I think she meant "Palin is not qualified to run a major business" into the ground

and then collect 21 million dollars for her efforts.

Is that what she meant?

[polichick]

6. This woman has lost all credibility.

[Renew Deal]

Neither is Carly Fiorina

Obviously

[scheming daemons]

7. And Carly should know.... she wasn't qualified either....

[BattyDem]

8. So Fiorina wouldn't want Palin to run HP, but has no problem with her running the country?

:banghead:

[Tim4319]

9. Sniff, sniff, sniff.... I smell an ad coming!

[TheKentuckian]

10. That woman is a terror

Hoover McShame should cut that one lose, if he actually got coverage or held accountable for anything she alone would have already sunk him.

[Aloha Spirit]

12. Is Fiorina one of the people Rick Davis was referring to when he said that the

people surrounding McCain over the last 8 weeks would be the pool of people from which his cabinet would be chosen?

[RedEarth]

13. Fiorina trashed HP and was given millions to leave

[nichomachus]

14. Just imagine if Carly

had had a huge nuclear arsenal to play with.

[calmblueocean]

15. The MSM better pick up on this one.

When your own surrogates start saying your VP isn't even qualified to run a major company, you've got trouble.

Or you should, if the media does its job.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

16. George Bush ruined several businesses before he became Governor and look how well he did

[jenmito]

17. Hmmm. A while ago she said she'd hire her to run her business and HAS hired people with very

little experience. I guess she just admitted she hires unqualified people!

[vanderBeth]

19. Apparently neither is Fiorina

[Proud Liberal Dem]

20. If you want to use the "coporation" analogy

Palin will be second-in-command and heir to one of the LARGEST "corporations" (complete with nuclear weapons) in the world as VPOTUS. If Fiorini is arguing that Palin would not be qualified to run a company like HP (which Fiorini obviously wasn't) then Palin is most certainly NOT qualified to be VPOTUS. Sounds to me like she is not making a good case for Palin being VPOTUS and, in fact, her argument really sounds more like a case for Palin NOT being VPOTUS if anything. Does she realize that?

[jenmito]

21. Fiorina was just asked about this by Andrea Mitchell and she said NONE of

the candidates are qualified to run a business, but "that's not what they're running for." Funny then, that she earlier said she'd hire Palin to run her business. Busted!

[SuperTrouper]

23. Carly Fiorina is such a liar, I cannot stomach her anymore

:puke:

[jenmito]

25. I could NEVER stomach her-she's been lying from the day she first started speaking for McCain

and BEFORE.

[blondeatlast]

24. But did Mitchell mention F's running HP into the side of a mountain? Never mind, I know the answer..

:mad:

[jenmito]

26. Your answer is right. n/t

[Maestro]

22. So....

You do not need to know how to handle fiscal responsibilities, large numbers of employees, understand how to deal with private stakeholders or public stockholders, relate to how your product or image is understood by other cultures, etc...? More dumbassery from the right! :eyes: