Carly Fiorina: blue diaper baby
Hugh Hewitt has a good interview with Carly Fiorina that focuses mainly, but not hardly exclusively, on Hillary Clinton’s problems with her server and her explanations about it.
The following portion of the interview interested me in particular, however. You know the expression “red diaper baby,” for people who were raised by leftist parents and steeped in their philosophy (I know an awful lot of those myself)? Well, Fiorina might be called a “blue diaper baby” (blue having been the original color for the right, and red for the left):
HH: I learned recently ”“ and I did not know this ”“ that you are the daughter of Judge Sneed.
CF: I am.
HH: One of the great ”“ I had no idea, I served with his colleague George MacKinnon and Roger Rob on the D.C. Circuit as their clerk and Judge Sneed was a hero ”“ so obviously you have a conservative judicial temperament and if I ask you what kind of judges you would appoint I imagine you would say judges like Judge Sneed (laughs).
CF: That’s correct. My dad was a great conservative jurist. I watched him on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ”“ obviously one of the most liberal courts in the land ”“ stick to his principles. He wrote many, many, many, many dissenting opinions and was very proud of the fact that when the Supreme Court reversed the 9th Circuit ”“ which happened frequently ”“ that they would just as frequently cite his opinions. So I’ve been asked a lot what kind of justices I would appoint to the Supreme Court and the answer is men and women like my dad. And I also will say, Hugh, because you asked me, that it’s hard to be a conservative jurist. Humility and restraint are required if you are a conservative. You have to be humble enough and restrained enough that just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. And in many cases, the humility and restraint to say “You know what, I may not like that the law is this way, but my job isn’t to decide what the law should be. My job is to decide what the law is. I may wish the Constitution were different, but the Constitution is what it is, and our job is to honor and uphold the Constitution. That takes humility and restraint. And I do believe that when we think about the character of our leaders, whether they are presidents or Secretaries of State or Supreme Court justices, we ought to be looking truthfulness ”“ of course ”“ and capability ”“ certainly ”“ and courage is important as well. But I think humility and restraint are undervalued virtues.
I heard another interview in which she discusses learning conservative values at her father’s knee, and how he used to read the Times every day and rail at it. I don’t have time to locate the quote now, but I’m fairly sure it was part of this interview she did at Ace’s.
I wish more jurists were like her father. He had a very sound philosophy. Too many believe that thiers is to decide how the law is to be applied, rather than it’s contitutionality. There is too much of ” This is how I want it to be, so that is how it shall be”.
This post has heartened me.
The Blue diaper reminds me of an anecdote I read about Packard, who co-founded the company she once ran.
Packard established and endowed a foundation the purpose of which was to encourage entrepreneurs in the IT world because Packard was an ardent fan of capitalism and the wonders it could accomplish in the futuristic realm Packard and his partner, Hewlett, inhabited.
In the course of time Packard’s foundation was controlled by Ford Foundation types who were more worried about income inequality and social justice than they were about encouraging tinkerers like Hewlett and Packard so if you were a Wilber or Orville Wright kind of person you would be well advised to look elsewhere than the Packard Foundation for help.
Carly told me many of the same things when I asked her about her Dad in Norwalk, Iowa.
The first thing out of her mouth was, “You did your homework.”
Hewitt probably got the info from my post at Powerline.
And Holman Jenkins of the WSJ wrote an HONEST assessment of her time at HP.
She told me her Dad used to yell at Cronkite and the NYT. Young Carly, “Why are you so upset Dad?”
In social settings, it inevitably comes out that I am a lawyer. Sigh. So the laypersons take the conversation into legal subject. Thus, I often hear people say that they want judges to be “fair.”
I respond to the effect of “Absolutely not! I don’t want judges to be fair.” That gets their attention. I then explain that if a judge decides a case on the basis of what he thinks is fair, he is usurping the role of the legislature, and with it, the right of the people to determine how best to govern themselves. He needs to decide the case before him on the basis of the law, even if he thinks it is not fair. He’s not Solomon.
Carly Fiorina has so much going for her. We must all keep spreading the word.
Cap’n:
Tony Kennedy thought SSM was “fair” although there was no basis in the constitution for it and it was certainly not a deeply held American tradition.
Liberal and “fair” judges just do whatever they want and the rest is just gloss.
Cornhead @ 4:06 PM – – “She told me her Dad used to yell at Cronkite and the NYT. Young Carly, ‘Why are you so upset Dad?'”
Wow, living in the same household as a person who saw through the false Cronkite “And that’s the way it is” propaganda.
Lovely to see these brilliant conservative candidates.
And who does the left have, again? Where is their candidates’ brainpower and character?
Recently John Harlow of MSNBC and Chris Cuomo of CNN have been asserting that some GOP presidential candidates want the 14th Amendment to be repealed. False.
The problem can be solved by a statue (the best way), amend the constitution to eliminate anchor baby citizenship or a test case.
The average person hears the word “repeal” and they think the GOP is extreme.
The liberal media bias is worth five points in every election.
– Yes, the sitting at her father’s knee thing came from the excellent AoSHQ podcast.
– Thanks to Cornhead for the heads-up on the WSJ article, though I’m not sure the author did Carly many favors by linking her to Jeb.
I’m reading Carly’s second book Rising to the Challenge, and it touches briefly on her time at HP (her first book was contemporaneous to when she left and is more in depth). I had suspected that she was dealing with a bad situation and wasn’t at fault for “running HP into the ground” as several know-nothing liberals online have said.
Carly Fiorina is either an actual, to-the-bone conservative or she’s the best liar I’ve ever seen. I’m inclined toward the former explanation.
Matt:
Carly is not a liar. Every quarter at HPQ she got grilled by the Street. Liars can’t survive that nvironment.
Who decided to label the Republicans as red on the electoral map then?
Who decided to label the Republicans as red on the electoral map then?
The guy who used to host Press the Meat.
There might be humor in it unfortunately … TWANLOC.
Carly should try to sneak in the picture.
Now, cough, cough:
Here’s Audio And Video Of Carly Fiorina’s Forceful Praise Of Hillary Clinton
See this comment. Ouch!
Sorry.