Carly Fiorina

[daveosupremo]

Would putting her on the ticket be beneficial to Republicans in 2016? She is unlikely to run for the top of the ticket, but she would provide a great balance to many of the leading GOP contenders, especially Walker and Paul. She is a dynamic speaker, has a strong business resume, stronger conservative credentials than Romney, and a great story. She made her career in California, but now lives in Virginia.
She's been making the rounds promoting her new superpac for the past several months, and gave one of the most well received speeches of CPAC 2014. Any chance she might have her sights set on something higher down the road?

[Supersonic]

Zero chance she's on the ticket.

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

If it means we get more demon sheep ads, hell yes!

[NHLiberal]

LOL at the ideological incoherence that a Paul/Fiorina ticket would reap

[eric82oslo]

I don't think so. She doesn't seem very likable to me. Always aggressive and sour. She seems pretty conservative as well, and obviously, as a CEO, way too money-driven. In an election which will be all about income inequality and the war on poverty, she would in fact be one of the worst candidate options imaginable.

[Suburbia]

She would be a good choice for a Pence or a Paul, but eric82oslo is somewhat right, she's kind of sour and aggressive, but that's a good quality because she'll have to be the attack dog as the running mate.

[Maxwell]

She's totally irrelevent. Next.

[Maxwell]

She's a proven failure when it comes to electoral politics and campaigning though - she lost by 10 points in 2010 when she was expected to do far better.

You may think she's competent and has a good success story, and that's all well and good, but to think she's one of the most likely picks is pretty out touch.

[Minnesota Mike]

Zero chance she's on the ticket.

[Хahar 🤔]

lol

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

Was everyone really not impressed with the demon sheep?

[pbrower2a]

No record in elective office. Not a military hero of General or Admiral rank. Forget it.

[All Along The Watchtower]

I like failed candidates too.

[Clermont County GOPer]

Zero chance she's on the ticket.

[CountryClassSF]

Not a conservative.

[Indy Texas]

She proved herself incapable of running a large company. How does that translate into being capable of running a large country?

[Mister Mets]

She's likely to end up on a long-list for Veep. So it doesn't mean her chance of being a running mate is zero, but it's not tremendous.

She still brings a few strengths to the ticket. A western woman with business experience could be a good fit for most of the men considered plausible contenders, and she's well-known enough that her lack of elected office won't be a major detriment. Her story (cancer survivor, deeply religious prominent female CEO) also likely has appeal to swing voters.

Her ten point loss in California isn't that bad, considering how liberal that state is (Obama carried it with 23-24 points both times.)

I could actually see her running for President, as a more credible Herman Cain type. That would also make her a more plausible veep.