I have no particular favorite right now in the GOP nomination fight. As a CPA, I pay close attention to the economic policies of the various candidates.
Carly Fiorina spoke to New Hampshire Republican Party’s First in the Nation leadership summit in Nashua, N.H on the subject of small business. Being the former CEO of Former Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina offered a decent perspective, which hasn’t really been discussed at length so far by many of the other candidates.
“The heroes of the American economy are small businesses and family-owned businesses”
“For the first time in U.S. history, we are destroying more businesses than we are creating”
“All of the things they are doing up there are landing on us down here. The weight of the government is literally crushing the potential of the people of this nation”
I don’t particularly think that Fiorina has the ability to be much of a viable candidate, especially considering her failed Senate campaign against Barbara Boxer in California. I do appreciate her calling out the government’s anti-business policies, something about which I have written extensively.
Whoever becomes the Republican nominee needs to be able to speak clearly and definitively about economic issues and call out the failed government policies of higher taxes, increased regulation, and minimum wage nonsense. Small businesses have borne the brunt of Obama’s heavy-handedness, and our economy has failed to recover adequately because of it.
Carly Fiorina a capable woman business CEO is merely trying to establish her name to be considered for a VP slot. She can be the Spiro Agnew mouth for the eventual GOP presidential candidate taking swipes at the Dem candidate which in all probability will be Hillary. She would in a major way neutralize the gender bias that will be heaped against the Republican nominee. Unquestionably economics is what gets most people to the voting booths, however, the world is aflame especially the Middle East thanks to Obama and his incompetence. The security of this nation with the Islamo Nazi threat may very well change the dynamics of the 2016 election and cause foreign affairs to be the paramount issue over domestic policies.
I think you are probably correct about her positioning herself as VP. There is so much election fodder for Obama’s failed policies for this next election — I hope the candidates have the guts to point it out.
Alan Joel, in response to your last statement “I hope the candidates have the guts to point it out ” (Obama’s failed policies). My response is if that don’t have the guts to do that then we wouldn’t want them to be our next President. It will take leadership and courage to bring this nation back from the morass and damage that 8 years of Progressive policies have brought us.
Yes, exactly!