The McCain Campaign Wises Up
Posted on September 17th, 2008 in Uncategorized | No Comments »
A couple days ago I wrote that Carly Fiorina should never be asked to comment on anything, no matter how trivial, ever again. If a butterfly flapped its wings in China, Carly Fiorina should say nothing.
Well. After Fiorina told an interviewer that neither John McCain or Sarah Palin could run a company—”I don’t think John McCain could run a major corporation,” she actually said (but hey, neither could she)— the McCain campaign has realized that Fiorina exile is a good idea.
“[One] campaign source said Fiorina would be discouraged from additional media interviews.
Another top campaign adviser was far less diplomatic.
“Carly will now disappear,” this source said.
This is fine. But let’s just remember how weird it is that the McCain campaign was trotting out this former CEO—a terrific example of the kind of greed McCain is currently railing against—as a credible economic adviser. Fiorina was paid $21 million to leave her job at Hewlett-Packard…..