I don’t see the point of supporting a candidate who thinks they cannot win. If the rumors are true, Fiorina has to know about the NRSC position which would explain her lackluster campaigning and unwillingness to self-fund.

When you get to the better chance of winning argument you have to factor in spirit, drive and moxie. Fiorina has none of that if she’s running just to tie up resources.

My least favorite memory of you as a commenter is when you decided to defend the rights of protesters to be wherever they wanted to be at a military funeral when the government wanted to pass a law declaring that they had to stay so many feet away from the proceedings. Some crap or other from you about “First Amendment” protection. Haven’t had any use for you since then and that was probably a good two years ago. Peculiar, you know, the things you choose to defend.

I say HOGWASH!

They think they’re entitled to our support and our money just because they’re well connected…and that we don’t have any right to expect anything of them once we’ve graciously allowed them to represent us….

I don’t have a problem with ALL Republicans….I don’t have a problem with ALL the DC establishment, I don’t have a problem with ALL the state party leadership….I don’t even have a problem with ALL RINOs believe it or not…

But this stuff going on in CA with Carley and Meg, or in NY with Scrazfava, (or however you spell it…I’ll just call the scumbag Scarface), or in Florida with Crist, or in IL with Kirk…and on and on is just the tip of the iceberg.

And I don’t know if you’ve noticed this or not…but I’ve written some pretty long posts in various dialogues with you and I wouldn’t waste my time if I didn’t care what you think on all this…

bottom line though is that we have the same goals long term…I think we have the same philosophy though I think I tend toward Social issues more instinctively…we just keep butting heads on short term issues because I’ve had it with the current direction of the party and I think it’s time for a little discipline to be administered…we may even agree on that general topic as well and the rub may only be in how we at the bottom can discipline people at the top who have no reason to listen to us…and have no skin to be lost for continuing their current course as long as we blindly continue to follow along…and send them money…and knock on doors for them…while expecting nothing in return for all our work.

In the hardball world of politics it isn’t so much insensitivity being expressed here, but frustration that an individual may use their health as a sympathy vote getter. And even if she isn’t, her campaign or supporters who do so, imperil her success.

Her actions are suspect because, as Gadfly pointed out a virtual presence was possible. Ignoring the convention and then being seen campaigning the next day brings up good faith issues.
Now is the time for this stuff to come out.

Have you no shame?

I live in Illinois and we’ve got our own problems.. But anyone can see the importance of California.. and I would love nothing better than to see that witch Boxer ousted by a Republican.

I just see strategies differently. Where some might see the need for a strong fight, I see a state that is very touchy-feely and how well the image of a strong woman who has defeated cancer might do at the polls. But that’s just me being sensitive, I guess.