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09-22-2015, 08:57 AM
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The Democrat Counter-Attack Against Carly Begins (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/counter-attack-carly-fiorina/)JONATHAN S. TOBIN (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/author/jonathan-tobin/) / SEPT. 18, 2015 (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/counter-attack-carly-fiorina/)
For most the past year, Democrats have regarded the field of Republican presidential candidates as falling into two categories: a band of right-wing crazies that could be easily dismissed, and Jeb Bush, a reasonable-sounding moderate who could nonetheless be easily demonized as another version of his hated brother George. The rise of Donald Trump didn’t alter their view of the 2016 race as one that was theirs to lose, provided that Hillary Clinton didn’t implode over lies about her emails and Clinton Foundation conflicts of interest. But today’s front page story in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/us/politics/carly-fiorina-gains-traction-in-debate-and-republicans-may-seize-on-her-appeal.html?ref=politics) about Carly Fiorina being the Republican Party’s fool-proof antidote to the Democrats’ false “war on women” meme was the official signal that liberals are good and worried about the former Hewlett-Packard CEO. With Hillary’s “inevitable” march to the presidency evaporating before their eyes and with an aging gaffe-prone Joe Biden or an aging socialist from Vermont being only alternatives to Hillary, that presents Democrats with the possibility of an election in which the gender gap is turned on its head. So it is little surprise that in the days since Fiorina’s smashing performance in the CNN debate this week (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/carly-fiorina-trump-knockdown/), the left has begun to push back hard against her candidacy. That means Fiorina is about to start getting the same treatment that was dished out to Mitt Romney four years and which Democrats had been preparing against Jeb Bush. The question now is whether Fiorina can survive the onslaught.
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The Democrat Counter-Attack Against Carly Begins (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/counter-attack-carly-fiorina/)JONATHAN S. TOBIN (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/author/jonathan-tobin/) / SEPT. 18, 2015 (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/counter-attack-carly-fiorina/)
For most the past year, Democrats have regarded the field of Republican presidential candidates as falling into two categories: a band of right-wing crazies that could be easily dismissed, and Jeb Bush, a reasonable-sounding moderate who could nonetheless be easily demonized as another version of his hated brother George. The rise of Donald Trump didn’t alter their view of the 2016 race as one that was theirs to lose, provided that Hillary Clinton didn’t implode over lies about her emails and Clinton Foundation conflicts of interest. But today’s front page story in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/18/us/politics/carly-fiorina-gains-traction-in-debate-and-republicans-may-seize-on-her-appeal.html?ref=politics) about Carly Fiorina being the Republican Party’s fool-proof antidote to the Democrats’ false “war on women” meme was the official signal that liberals are good and worried about the former Hewlett-Packard CEO. With Hillary’s “inevitable” march to the presidency evaporating before their eyes and with an aging gaffe-prone Joe Biden or an aging socialist from Vermont being only alternatives to Hillary, that presents Democrats with the possibility of an election in which the gender gap is turned on its head. So it is little surprise that in the days since Fiorina’s smashing performance in the CNN debate this week (https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/carly-fiorina-trump-knockdown/), the left has begun to push back hard against her candidacy. That means Fiorina is about to start getting the same treatment that was dished out to Mitt Romney four years and which Democrats had been preparing against Jeb Bush. The question now is whether Fiorina can survive the onslaught.
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