Readers React: Taking stock of Carly Fiorina

To the editor: When I came to the end of George Skelton’s column, I was expecting to read something along the lines of “just kidding.” It’s the wrong season for April Fool’s jokes. (“State GOP lost an asset when Fiorina moved,” Column, Sept. 21)

Carly Fiorina is clever and well spoken, but she would be a disaster for California and the country if she were to be elected to high public office.

Her record of failure is well known and not “old news,” but it is still relevant because she didn’t learn from her failure. She was arrogant, a bully and wrong, which is a deadly combination for a company and far deadlier for a government.

Ask Hewlett-Packard if it would rehire her. Ask other companies why they didn’t hire her.

What Skelton describes as an “exaggeration” is really a fabrication.

John Hale, La Cañada Flintridge

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To the editor: I disagree with Skelton when he writes that Fiorina “could be a savior for the crippled California GOP.”

With her shrill voice on reducing entitlements, i.e. Social Security and Medicare, her anti-abortion rhetoric and her defense of tax benefits for billionaires and CEOs, she would be a disaster for the party.

I do agree with his last paragraph that her new home state in the South “is a better political fit anyway than in California.”

Emil Lawton, Sherman Oaks

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To the editor: I have to agree with Skelton that Fiorina was really shining at the recent Republican debate.

She’s a shining example because she has demonstrated she is just as big a conservative huckster as the current GOP front-runners and can spew the same jingoistic half-truths, outright lies and xenophobic drivel that passes for a major part of the Republican platform with the “best” of them.

I say good riddance, and the farther she is from California the better.

John Trask, Thousand Oaks

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To the editor: What is up with The Times?

It is positively littered with articles about the Republican Party. I count six articles on one day.

I would like to know, what the heck? Good God! More of this and I may discontinue my 30-year subscription.

Ick.

Ronald Fontenot, Los Angeles

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