This is the most silly conventional wisdom about Donald.

Real?  He looks angry.   He is channeling the unfocused anger of the country.  (Notice I dodnt just say republicans?  I was talking to some registered Dem fans today).  He doesn't seem real he seems angry.   They don't care about policy or ideas or anything really except someone who will say the hateful things they want to hear.

Success at Lucent

By 1998, when Fortune dubbed Carly Fiorina the most powerful woman in business, Fiorina was president of Lucent's Global Service Provider division, the company's core business unit. Selling products that made network communication possible, including networking systems and software for phones, Fiorina rode the rising tide of demand for network technology from American businesses. Under her watch, the company's market share increased in every region for every product.

Tenure at Hewlett-Packard

In the summer of 1999, Hewlett-Packard took note of Fiorina's exceptional ability to manage growth in the quickly changing technology field and tagged her to replace retiring president and CEO Lewis Platt. Fiorina holds the notable distinction of being the first woman to take the lead at a Fortune 100 company.

Note the date.

Carly Fiorina quickly became a highly visible CEO making several major changes at HP: she streamlined operations combining several different units into fewer, more manageable units. She shook up the sales staff with the mandate "shape up or ship out." In the wake of the dotcom bubble bursting Fiorina announced a controversial merger with Compaq Computers, a move opposed by HP founders' sons Walter Hewlett and David Packard. Fiorina also helped make HP a leader in charitable giving. She launched HP's "Technology for Teaching" program and established programs in other countries to "help bridge the digital divide between technology empowered and technology-excluded communities."

A year-and-a-half after the Compaq merger, Fiorina claimed victory announcing that HP was a cutting edge company and industry leader in all business categories. But business analysis observed that HP really hadn't changed all that much. Eighty percent of profit still came from the printer division. Morale was down, not up and in 2004, several top executives left the company.

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Something called the tech bubble burst. And all the suppressed hatred between ex Compaq and HP employees came roaring out.

And the HP people, who had fought tooth and nail against the merger but had failed to develop new products and markets thus making the merger necessary, took their revenge.

And they won. That happens. I survived 4 major mergers in my career and while I wasn't a "player" I was close enough to see what was happening and why. Now, did Cary help the company or hurt it?

"What people fail to comment on is the fact we doubled the size of the company, took the growth rate from 2 percent to 9 percent," she said. "We tripled the rate of innovation to 11 patents a day and went from lagging behind to leading in every product category. We grew jobs here in the U.S. and all over the world. You can't just leave those facts out -- they are as vital to the record as the fact that yes, indeed, I had to make tough calls during tough times. Tough times that many technology companies didn't survive at all."

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Of course she has had her detractors, fueled by her run in CA all the power of the Demo Left has been used on her. That she has survived is a tribute to:

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

That you don't like her is understandable.

But by any standard she has been a success. She has been in the arena while Hillary has been in the stands.

And I find it amusing and oh so instructive to watch female leftists attack a woman who has actually accomplished things.