CARLY ROMPS AGAIN – AT 9:43 A.M. ET:  We've said here before that readers should watch carefully the rise of Carly Fiorina.  She is doing a terrific job on the stump.  People love her, love the way she goes after Hillary.

I don't think she can get the nomination for the top slot.  But V.P. maybe?  From Byron York at the Washington Examiner: 

Two of the 2016 Republican presidential field's most accomplished speakers, Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., skipped the big Lincoln Day dinner in Des Moines, Iowa over the weekend. But the dinner, which featured 11 candidates addressing the crowd for a strictly-enforced ten minutes each, saw the emergence of another star speaker in the GOP ranks.

Since making a good impression on Iowans at a similar event in January, Carly Fiorina has honed her stump speech to a fine edge. Starting with her own secretary-to-CEO success story, she touches a lot of bases — Hillary Clinton, American exceptionalism, business regulation, taxes, the size of government, the nature of leadership, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Israel, Iran and more. She delivers the message with an intensity that almost forces people to listen.

That's what Fiorina did in Iowa Saturday night. And even though one might think it an amateur mistake to go over the ten-minute limit, as Fiorina did, and to be stopped by rising music and a cut microphone (those were the rules), it didn't appear to hurt Fiorina. When she was cut off — Fiorina was the only candidate who went over — "the crowd groaned," according to Iowa Republican blogger Craig Robinson. They wanted to hear more.

COMMENT:  They always do, when Fiorina speaks.  Keep watching her.  She has star quality, and we can use that on our side.

May 19, 2015