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| Fiorino's "hair gambit" |
| 2010-06-11 |
| Jim Geraghty, "The Campaign Spot" @ National Review In all likelihood, Carly Fiorina's off-mike statement about Barbara Boxer's hair was exactly what it appeared to be — one candidate examining the appearance of another candidate and finding it laughably anachronistic. . . . But as we all know, Barbara Boxer can be a little touchy. (“Call me senator.') She has a bit of an ego, writing novels in which the protagonist is a crusading liberal Democratic senator from California who has “been put here on earth to save its endangered children.' Click through to read a review. Marvel at the intensely steamy horse-breeding scene. So it's not unthinkable that Fiorina or her campaign or both might think that upon hearing ridicule of her appearance, Boxer might be easily goaded into making a similar comment about Fiorina. You've seen Carly Fiorina's ultra-short haircut, right? You know her hair is growing back differently because of chemotherapy from when she was treated for breast cancer, right? Usually-Democratic California is already pretty “meh' on Boxer, where the incumbent is polling in the mid to high 40s. A comment mocking a recovering cancer patient's hair would be the sort of thing that would shift Boxer's image from a haughty, too-comfortable pol to a mean-spirited monster. It didn't happen in this case. But I can't help but suspect that Team Fiorina will try to generate as many “call me Senator' moments as possible. I suspect in their first debate, Fiorina will call her “ma'am' early and often. And if that doesn't work, she could always . . . unleash the Demonsheep! A demonsheep versus Barbara Boxturtle? My money's on the sheep. |
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