Some Thoughts On the Debate Last Night and Candidates for Republican Nomination
Carly won. However, if you remember last go around, Gingrich also blew it away-yet he was not the nominee
2. Most of the candidates come off somewhat hapless and unPresidential
3. Paul and Carly were the only two I remember mentioning rights
4. Cruz and Trump were the only ones to call out Congress
5. No real questions about fixing/building the economy
6. Too much emphasis on the Border. I mean it's not a big plan issue. Just say you'll secure it. why get into details? BUT, the economy and wealth creation need to have a plan to sell to voters. One of my favorite comedies, Modern Family has a character who is always asking her ADD husband-"What's the PLAN PHIL?" that is my question for them. Hermann Cain did that well with his 9-9-9 plan. At first I thought it hokey, but it got people thinking and it was simple and covered the major bases. To be a successful front runner, I think you need a plan kinda like that. Regulation killing, agency checking, tax overhaul (abolish the IRS) and wealth creation-those can be articulated fairly simply. Foreign policy is harder and more controversial, so I would not make it my cornerstone(as Rand is currently doing).
What did I miss and what are your thoughts on what the candidates need to do in order to stand apart from the pack?
2. Most of the candidates come off somewhat hapless and unPresidential
3. Paul and Carly were the only two I remember mentioning rights
4. Cruz and Trump were the only ones to call out Congress
5. No real questions about fixing/building the economy
6. Too much emphasis on the Border. I mean it's not a big plan issue. Just say you'll secure it. why get into details? BUT, the economy and wealth creation need to have a plan to sell to voters. One of my favorite comedies, Modern Family has a character who is always asking her ADD husband-"What's the PLAN PHIL?" that is my question for them. Hermann Cain did that well with his 9-9-9 plan. At first I thought it hokey, but it got people thinking and it was simple and covered the major bases. To be a successful front runner, I think you need a plan kinda like that. Regulation killing, agency checking, tax overhaul (abolish the IRS) and wealth creation-those can be articulated fairly simply. Foreign policy is harder and more controversial, so I would not make it my cornerstone(as Rand is currently doing).
What did I miss and what are your thoughts on what the candidates need to do in order to stand apart from the pack?
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Why is Jim Gilmore completely off the radar screen? He seemed confidant, articulate and with a very impressive resume.
I am not bitter at HP only Carly...
Who was running for office? The ten on stage or Megyn, Wallace and Baer?
I only see Ben Carson and Trump as the only two who can really do that...and have PROOF they do it all the time.
Pediatric Neurosurgeon has to do that before during and after every surgery...Trump has to do that from concept to fulfillment of the concept...
Compaq and the German CEO had previous arrangements with Digital for the buyout years before as the major stockholders and founders wanted to "cash-out" instead of leaving their legacy to their pathetic kids and relatives. I can go into great detail on how Digital was eventually sold to Compaq.
Eckardt Pheifer the CEO of Compaq made a major bonehead move in Buying Digital because he was a German Citizen and Digital (DEC's) portfolio consisted mainly of Government contracts, and by law the German CEO could not be head of a company that had Sensitive US government contracts.
Next he made the mistake of not calculating the Compaq Service centers and the Service centers destroyed Compaq with lawsuits since DEC has a massive internal and global servicing arm, that went into direct conflict with these Compaq Service Centers, and violated their paid territories.
BTW, Carly obviously NEVER paid attention to that and made the SAME bonehead mistake when she bought Compaq, which tanks BECAUSE of the Digital Buyout, coupled with all the server and storage lines that directly competed with each other.
So you see. DEC, Compaq and HP suffered their issues NOT because of the DOT com crash but because of stupid Sr. Level Management.
But I would say that intelligence, rationality and the right principled stance on key issues is all that should be considered for the nomination.
I think their view would also be distorted.
Yup, and the ONLY reason id did is because people cheered when a Female was named CEO of a fortune 50 company.
Boy were their cheers misplaced. They cheered an idiot
Fact is way stranger than fiction.
It is not clear to me that given how screwed up HP's market and market position was in 1999 that HP / Carly missed any great opportunities. At least she walked away from the Price-Waterhouse acquisition attempt!
Doesn't the "HP Way" remind anyone of how government employment typically works? Carly taking that on is at least similar to what is needed throughout the executive branch. Of course many HPQ employees hated it - how do you think the fed employees would feel with Ron Paul implementing the plan above.
It would be (theoretically) great for Carly to implement the Ron Paul (or even Rand Paul) plan above - but getting elected first would help.
Got to pick your battles to make some progress.
However - still not sure her or other Republican candidate (like Rand Paul, most likely) is worth voting for vs. the typical Libertarian option.
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