2016 Election Starts Now: Common People
Aug. 23rd, 2015 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23Another conversation I had this week was with some Californians who said they hardly recognized Carly Fiorina in her State Fair clothes.
Courtesy NPR
Indeed, it is a good joke to imagine Fiorina asking friends and advisors what one wears to a State Fair.
Still, Fiorina escaped the Fair unscathed.
Remember Fred Thompson.
Thompson was a 'tell like it is' television celebrity outsider candidate who for a moment was our surefire next President (sounds familiar).
Fox News reported that Thompson had 'walked' the Iowa State Fair via golf cart and was decked out in Gucci loafers (a claim Thompson fiercely disputes)
Indeed, history tells us that Fox News's version of the story did not actually occur, but it stuck to Thompson, and sticks to him even now.
Thompson was not the first, nor will he be last. As far as Iowa missteps go, John Kerry looking butch in his hunting gear ranks near the top.
In any case, Fiorina seems to have it figured out, striking a balance between businesswoman multi-millionaire and common person. She is surging in the polls and if the Trump train derails, a Fiorina nomination doesn't sound too impossible.
Courtesy NPR
Indeed, it is a good joke to imagine Fiorina asking friends and advisors what one wears to a State Fair.
Still, Fiorina escaped the Fair unscathed.
Remember Fred Thompson.
Thompson was a 'tell like it is' television celebrity outsider candidate who for a moment was our surefire next President (sounds familiar).
Fox News reported that Thompson had 'walked' the Iowa State Fair via golf cart and was decked out in Gucci loafers (a claim Thompson fiercely disputes)
Indeed, history tells us that Fox News's version of the story did not actually occur, but it stuck to Thompson, and sticks to him even now.
Thompson was not the first, nor will he be last. As far as Iowa missteps go, John Kerry looking butch in his hunting gear ranks near the top.
In any case, Fiorina seems to have it figured out, striking a balance between businesswoman multi-millionaire and common person. She is surging in the polls and if the Trump train derails, a Fiorina nomination doesn't sound too impossible.
