Republican Carly Fiorina Schools "Maam" Boxer in First Debate (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, September 2, 2010, 7:48 AM
This will be a great race to watch this year–
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina schooled Barbara “Maam” Boxer in their first debate on Wednesday. Fiorina pounded Boxer’s disastrous 28-year liberal record that has brought the Golden State to the brink of disaster.
For her part, liberal Barbara Boxer didn’t make up any past conversations, which was good.
The struggling economy was the top issue in this first debate.
MyWay has more:
After a summer of firing campaign shots from afar, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and Republican challenger Carly Fiorina met on the same stage for the first time Wednesday over who best represents California’s economic interests for the next six years.
During the hourlong debate in which both women exchanged feisty jabs, Fiorina called Boxer an agent of big government spending, taxes and policies that strangled America’s entrepreneurial spirit. Boxer fired back by criticizing Fiorina for serving the interests of “billionaires, millionaires and companies that outsource jobs,” rather than average Americans.
The recession and how to turn around California’s 12.3 percent jobless rate dominated the debate at St. Mary’s College in the eastern San Francisco Bay area city of Moraga. The forum also allowed the women to contrast their differences on a number of other topics, including abortion, immigration, gay marriage and global warming.
Boxer’s campaign indicated a second debate could be announced within days.
Both candidates have a reputation for toughness and for not backing down – Boxer as an unabashed liberal who voted against the Iraq war, and Fiorina as someone who rose to the top of American business at a time when it was rare to see a woman in the chief executive’s suite.
“This election is between someone who’s fighting for jobs day in, day out – jobs right here in America, versus someone when she had the chance laid off 30,000 workers and shipped jobs to China,” Boxer said. “This election is about someone who’s working hard so that we can see the words ‘Made in America’ again and someone who is proud of her time at HP when she stamped ‘Made in China, Made in India’ on their products.”
Fiorina, who led Hewlett-Packard Co. from 1999 to 2005, said she offered a prescription of smaller government and tax cuts to benefit small- and family-owned businesses.
“If you look at Sen. Boxer’s long track record of 28 years in Washington, D.C., you will see this: She is for more taxes, she is for more spending, she is for more regulation, and she is also for big government and elite extreme environmental groups,” Fiorina said.
If this race continues to be about the economy and jobs, dimwit Boxer is toast.
Please contribute to Carly’s campaign to beat this tired old liberal here.
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NeoKong commented:
Carly is definitely better than Boxer.
Retire Boxer.
KR commented:
I watched the debate last night.
Fiorina did well. She answered the questions in a way that didn’t assume the audience was ignorant.
Boxer just had typical canned answers which would appeal to brain dead liberals.
Militant Conservative commented:
Nice try Boxer. Why did HP ship job’s overseas????
The Local and Federal Government made the rules and regulations so onerous as to make it cheaper to ship the jobs out rather than pay the fees and taxes that a bloated government wanted. This is classic Libterd thoughts. Just tax the crap outta the companies THEY have bags of cash just sitting around for the government to take away. Learn economics you dunce. You keep taking away my money and at some poit I’ll quit working and go underground. collapse comming if you do not change leadership ideology.
powder is dry.
fightinggranny commented:
Liberals (kindly referred to here) do not know how to create a job. They think spending all of the taxpayers money creates jobs. Most of us who work in the real world know that there are decisions that need to be made for what is best business practice. Progressives/Liberals will not be happy until the US is a third world country, look at CA.
KR commented:
Carly really walloped “the senator” with the facts on the Central Valley water issue. Many jobs were lost there.
jainphx commented:
Jobs over seas brought to you by high taxes, government regulations, union interference, and state taxes. The burdens placed on Businesses cause hardships to everyone, but the dems like Boxer profit at our miseries. Turn her out!
Andreas K. commented:
Boxer has been in DC for 28 years? Jeez, has that woman ever worked?
“This election is about someone who’s working hard so that we can see the words ‘Made in America’ again and someone who is proud of her time at HP when she stamped ‘Made in China, Made in India’ on their products.”
Yeah? But HP produces something that people buy, with that HP gives people jobs and with these jobs these people feed their families. Of course this concept is perfectly alien to people like Boxer.
Any why do companies leave countries?
Because governments are driving them out.
PJ commented:
Carly wiped the floor with her! I hadn’t known Babs was that dumb, “green jobs, made in America, teachers.” The liberal mantra, supporting unions. She must be desperate if she asked for another debate!
sandy commented:
The hardest thing to do is to defend your record when the economy in your state is in free fall. You go Fiorina — you’ve got the ball.
Stanley commented:
In short, the only observable growth that we all can see, is little Tom Thumb, that he isn’t so little anymore and growing by leaps and bounds, is the GOVERNMENT. Want the economy to grow? Get Out Of The Way and go on a Diet and let Business do what it does best, creates jobs.
greenfairie commented:
Watched this last night. The best question came from a Chinese guy in Oakland to Boxer: “You’ve served three terms. Why don’t you give somebody else a chance?”
sfcuebist commented:
Boxer also came across as reeking of entitlement, and sort of condescending in her manner of speech and the way she gestured. Carly spoke directly to the camera so you could look her in the eye. I was a disappointed DeVore supporter but (despite some reservations) I’ll be putting some time into Carly’s campaign. I’ve never been politically active before but the times they are a changin’ …
Stanley commented:
Sure did Anchor what Carly Fiorina said earlier about Boxer serving her own self interests and ideology and not America’s. Touche!
seven commented:
Vote no Ma’am in November
CT commented:
I did not have an opportunity to see the debate here on the East Coast, but what I saw in that clip wasn’t anyone being schooled. IMHO Babs Boxer is a walking talking insult to America and I hope Carly has what it takes to take her out.
WSG commented:
Boxer seems to believe that you can flog a company into prosperity. Her discussion must go something like:
“Tax them.”
Won’t that mean that they will have to realize savings in some way to stay in business? Perhaps they will have to move services out of the country in order to compete.”
“If they do, we’ll penalize them.”
Won’t they move more jobs away?
“If they try that, we’ll penalize them more.”
Who wins in this train of thought?