She Had Such Nice Things to Say

Newsweek, June, 2008 by Jonathan Darman

To get McCain elected, Carly Fiorina is talking up ... Hillary.

For the past 15 months, Carly Fiorina has given her life to John McCain. A brand-name businesswoman owing to her tumultuous tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina serves as “victory chairwoman” of the Republican National Committee and is the McCain campaign’s most outspoken and energetic female surrogate. But as she strolled around a dining room in the battleground state of Ohio last week, praising “a focused, determined, intelligent, empathetic, powerful leader,” she wasn’t talking about the GOP nominee. She was talking about Hillary Clinton—a woman, she told the 50 women gathered to see her in a Columbus suburb, who’d been wronged. “Women in positions of authority, particularly bold women who are...

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