Female GOP Candidate (Fiorina) Hits Boxer For Wanting To Be Called “Senator”

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MEOW! Sounds like Fiorina's got nuthin'. :evilgrin:

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Female GOP Candidate Hits Boxer For Wanting To Be Called “Senator”


Fun times out in California: Carly Fiorina, the businesswoman who hopes to be the GOP challenger to Senator Barbara Boxer next year, has unveiled a new attack line:

She’s faulting Boxer for wanting to be called “Senator,” not “ma’am,” hitting Boxer with a new Web ad and a new Website devoted entirely to this criticism.

It’s a reference to a widely-noted exchange Boxer had earlier this year with a Brigadier General at a hearing. After he called her “ma’am,” Boxer rejoined: “Do me a favor, could you say `Senator,’ instead of `ma’am’? It’s just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title.”

You can watch that exchange right here, on the Fiorina campaign’s new Web site devoted to this line of criticism, CallMeBarbara.com. And here’s Fiorina’s new Web ad, running on sites like Drudge, hitting Boxer on this:



In a statement accompanying the release of the new site and ad, the Fiorina campaign blasted the exchange as a sign of Boxer’s “egotistical style.”

It’s true that the exchange didn’t reflect particularly well on Boxer. But hitting her for wanting to be called “Senator” perhaps doesn’t reflect that well on Fiorina, either. After all, this doesn’t seem like the most pressing concern of voters. What’s more, Fiorina is an accomplished woman in her own right.