Who will Fiorina be comparable to?

[Free Bird]

Which 2008/12 candidate will Carly Cantwin be the equivalent of? Looks promising once she jumps in, but a chance never really materializes?

[Cory]

John Huntsman?

[DS0816]

Re: Who will Fiorina be comparable to?

No one gives Carly Fiorina thought—let alone compares her to anything or anyone.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

John Huntsman?

That's probably being too generous.

[BaconBacon96]

Michele Bachmann. She'll likely be the only woman in the race. Also, if she makes it to Iowa I don't think she'll do much better than Bachmann did.

[Liberalrocks]

If we are speaking of comparing her to the 2012 GOP pool of candidates. I can't come up with anyone because I doubt she will ever be leader of the group even for a the week. It seemed as if everyone lead the pack for about a week in 2012. So I am not sure I can perfectly compare her. As scary as it sounds Bachmann lead for a short minute in 2012. So other then her gender probably no one. She isn't as extreme as Bachmann socially speaking but I don't see her getting very far in a pool of better known and in some cases more experienced names.

[Beet]

Larry Summers? She'll uphold the banner for failing upwards.

[SteveRogers]

Pawlenty- Graciously dropping out well ahead of Iowa in order to try to curry favor as someone's VP pick.

["'Oeps!' De blunders van Rick Perry Indicted"]

Liddy Dole circa 1999.

[retromike22]

Harold Stassen

[Bojack Horseman]

Rick Scott: a self-serving billionaire who tried to buy an election.

[Mr. Morden]

Rick Scott: a self-serving billionaire who tried to buy an election.

I think she's a hundred millionaire, but not a billionaire.  She doesn't have enough money to buy the election on her own.

[Suburbia]

I guess like Pawlenty. Pawlenty should have won it all, but oh well.

[Averroës Nix]

She might fill the Perot-esque "rich guy with big, weird ideas" niche that Herman Cain occupied in 2012.

[Modernity has failed us]

Probably like Tancredo in 08.

[Yelnoc]

Larry Summers? She'll uphold the banner for failing upwards.

Oh God, she'll end up in a Republican cabinet, won't she?

[Phony Moderate]

Has there ever been a candidate who name sounds like a state?

[Yelnoc]

Has there ever been a candidate who name sounds like a state?

Washington?

[ShamDam]

Has there ever been a candidate who name sounds like a state?

Perhaps not but we did have Grover Cleveland

[pbrower2a]

Herbert Hoover -- if elected.

[Mister Mets]

Elizabeth Dole in 2000 seems about right.

There isn't anyone from 2008/ 2012 in her mold. She might have some superficial similarities to Herman Cain, but I don't see her pandering to the base to the same extent.

[Free Bird]

Elizabeth Dole in 2000 seems about right.

There isn't anyone from 2008/ 2012 in her mold. She might have some superficial similarities to Herman Cain, but I don't see her pandering to the base to the same extent.

Brownback?

[Cory]

Elizabeth Dole in 2000 seems about right.

There isn't anyone from 2008/ 2012 in her mold. She might have some superficial similarities to Herman Cain, but I don't see her pandering to the base to the same extent.

But Lizzy Dole was kind of a big deal. Fiorina isn't.

[publicunofficial]

Larry Summers? She'll uphold the banner for failing upwards.

Oh God, she'll end up in a Republican cabinet, won't she?

I doubt it. The only one should be considered for would be Secretary of Commerce, but I suspect that will be one of the departments that a bunch of candidates will campaign on eliminating.

A bunch of candidates probably will, but I doubt the eventual nominee will.

[Mister Mets]

Elizabeth Dole in 2000 seems about right.

There isn't anyone from 2008/ 2012 in her mold. She might have some superficial similarities to Herman Cain, but I don't see her pandering to the base to the same extent.

But Lizzy Dole was kind of a big deal. Fiorina isn't.

One of the big differences is that 2016 is a very different primary than 2000.

Dole and Fiorina would both be women in their early 60s who were not elected to statewide office, but who did lead organizations whose names are familiar to votes (HP and the Red Cross.)

Dole was in a primary with a clear frontrunner. Fiorina would enter a much more crowded race.

It's possible that both would lose primaries to one of George HW Bush's sons.

Elizabeth Dole in 2000 seems about right.

There isn't anyone from 2008/ 2012 in her mold. She might have some superficial similarities to Herman Cain, but I don't see her pandering to the base to the same extent.

Brownback?

Brownback was a conventionally qualified generic very conservative white guy.