I sort of agree with this. In order to make this issue stick you have to successfully portray Carly as a plutocrat like Romney. You would have to design your entire narrative of her around he being rich and out of touch. I'm not saying this can't happen, but it would probably take more than just HP to bring her down. Nothing illegal happened and if this is the only real ammo you have against her, it might not be enough.
I was thinking more in the GOP race (for now).
On the GOP side I don't think anyone would bring up the parachute but they might try and hit on the HP outcome.
No. But would you be proud of it? Would you act like you should be admired for it?
This is what I was thinking. If your qualifications is you ran a large company, it doesn't bode well that the company would rather give you $40 million to quit rather than have you run the company.
Wouldn't the appropriate thing to do be to compare her record with HP's competitors during the same time period? How did her performance stack up against her rival CEO's? Did everyone forget the tech bubble that popped around this time period? Tech stocks were dropping like they were going over the grand canyon, tech companies were going out of business left and right. You have to compare her record against those CEO's in the industry to determine if she was doing a good job or a terrible job. However, if all the companies in the industry were "failing" was Carly really a failure or a convenient scapegoat?
Really!
Agree. People can paint Carly as a failure for what happened at HP, but as I asked before, how did she stack up compared to what her competitors were doing at that time. She's the first woman to become CEO of a company on the DJIA. Sorry, but that is a major accomplishment in itself. The good ole boys didn't just promote women to CEO unless she had an impressive resume to begin with.
I wonder how imcc feels about this?
You don't get hired as the first woman CEO if your resume is meh. It's got to be very good. "She wasn't successful", why, because she got fired? So did Walt Disney, Bloomberg, Mark Cuban, Jk Rowlings, big freakin' deal. Lots of incredibly successful people have been fired before.
You are correct about the DNC machine digging up dirt on Fiorina but that would be the case if Pope Francis was the nominee for the GOP. The Dems are going to try to scare people into thinking the GOP candidate likes to beat old people for the fun of it. However, don't forget the Hillary scandals that will be playing out at the same time. It will be drip, drip, drip, because Hillary chose to stonewall any investigation. The public just doesn't trust her.
Well, if someone is willing to pay her $40 Million to shut up, then that might be a person I want speaking up on my behalf. Or are you suggesting we should hold out for someone who was paid $60 Million to shut up?
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