…if she’s just trying to avoid offending them. There seems like quite a few tea party folks resentful of the GOP establishment in a way that comes off as wanting candidates to appear more independent from the GOP, especially those adamant that the tea party isn’t a GOP offshoot or tool for GOP victories.

How is it possible that from the state that gave us Reagan, the NRSC can’t seem to find a single person who can articulate a coherent conservative/Republican theme?

Ri now Republican, Rinow Republican, RiNo Republican, RINO Republican.
See how easy that is when you are brought into the party by McCain.

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but not “right now”.

“She said ‘tell me you are a Christian’ ”
I said “Ma’am I am tonite.”

McCain openly stated he wanted to put into federal office people he felt were of like mind. She is one of his choices. She would be an embarrassment. Even as she runs for office she is tap dancing to the left. Why? Well, it is California and that place is a factory for leftist nutjobs. But I’d rather not win that seat than put up with trying to guess which way she’d go on any issue. Graham and McCain keep me busy enough. Hopefully the voters of California feel the same way.

Not betting on it, just hoping.

It would be pretty ridiculous to claim equivalence there. Sure, I’d expect her to be borderline RINO and off the reservation from time to time like McCain, but Boxer is 100% predictable and 100% leftist and 100% wrong, and Ahnald’s dog would be an improvement.

that certain parts of the Establishment GOP are nothing more than a band of migratory, political thieves making convenient alliances with mercenaries in order to loot a sick republic.

No Republican I know hates workers like she does.

is to join them. It is possible that Carly is repulsed by rightist Republicans, so uncouth, as the media culture has informed her.
Dems would love working with her, they love sponges. But the sponge better cooperate 100% otherwise a call to the Times & there goes the reputation.

Support Chuck Devore in the primary, but if Fiorina wins ,hold your nose and vote for her in the general. It reminds me of a time many moons ago in Pennsylvania that a Republican running for the legislature was as far left as the dimmocrat, so I wrote in the name of my mother´s dog. The dem won and nobody lived happily ever after.

I also don’t believe she is a Republican in any meaningful sense.

What she is, right now, and forever, is another in a sickeningly long line of rudderless “R” badge-wearing politicians with no firm philosophical underpinnings, subject to being shoved around by the prevailing winds. The Senate already exceeds its quota of such undependable folks.

Give the devil his due; at least the lefties have firm principles. Dead wrong, but we know where they stand. And that firmness is what gives the lefties power. Can no one in the GOP “leadership” see this?

to the political scrapheap of history, I think it would still be wrong to vote for a Fiorina-type candidate.

CA is a failing state. Let us let it fail under the banner of Democratic Liberalism for all the world to see. If we elect Fiorina now and the state fails, all the libs will have to do is point to Ahnold and Carly and say, “See? It was BI-PARTISAN failure.”(Rather than IDEOLOGICAL failure.)

It’s similar to the Scozafava debacle. I would truly rather lose with a principled candidate (like Doug Hoffman) than with a RINO who will blow with the wind and suck like a lemmon in governance.

Did we learn nothing from the tragic career of Arlen Specter???