June 10, 2010 07:49 PM UTC

At Least She's Not Your Senate Candidate

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• by: Colorado Pols

From MSNBC:

Caught on an open mic as she was getting ready to go on CNN Wednesday, California’s new Republican senatorial nominee, Carly Fiorina, may have set a new record for most catty remarks per minute.

She repeatedly questioned her fellow Republican Meg Whitman’s “bizarre” decision to be interviewed by Fox host Sean Hannity and cracked herself up by mocking the physical appearance of her Democratic opponent, incumbent Sen. Barbara Boxer.

Boxer’s hairstyle, Fiorina laughed, is “so yesterday.” But here’s what’s so yesterday: Fiorina’s whole “Mean Girls” approach to female competition. Even as commentators across the country were saluting Fiorina as part of the unprecedented wave of female Republican candidates who’d prevailed at the polls on Tuesday night, she was behaving like a throwback, criticizing both her opponent’s looks and her own party’s gubernatorial nominee’s judgment in terms that were far less attractive than a mere bad hair day…

…Checking her BlackBerry, she read an e-mail from a supporter: “Just watched you on Fox, blah, blah, blah. Wow, people are up early.” Though “I didn’t eat last night,” those with her were sure “wolfing down cheeseburgers,” she reported and “eating, eating.”

Finally, she referred to her competition as “Failedsenator.com. Hello, Barbara” – then mentioned someone who “saw Barbara Boxer briefly on television this morning and said what everyone says, ‘God, what is that hair?'”

“So yesterday,” said the woman being hailed around the country as a new brand of feminist.