TPM Reader BR reminds us that unlike Charlie Crist’s, Carly Fiorina’s campaign has been so abysmal, that a little tea bagging from Jim DeMint may just be a matter of putting her campaign out of its misery …
Just thought I’d drop a quick note on your coverage of the supposed “tea bagging” of Carly Fiorina in California. The reality out here is that Fiorina has run a debacle of a shadow campaign — among other things, her website was an absolute joke, she seems to have lied about HP’s business dealings with Iran, and (along with gubernatorial hopeful and former eBay CEO Meg Whitman) she seems to have had trouble in the past finding time to, you know, vote.
So while Sen. DeMint may have “deHots” for Chuck DeVore, this isn’t a situation where you have a moderate Republican getting shunted aside for a wing-nutter. It’s more akin to having an unqualified, underprepared-and-possibly-scandal-tainted Republican getting shunted aside for a wing-nutter. Such is the state of the GOP in this state.
