"Carly Fiorina would now like to lend her insight gained about running large organizations and alienating as many people as possible to the White House."

Should read:

"Carly Fiorina would now like to lend her insight gained about ruining large organizations and alienating as many people as possible to the White House."

Lucent was doing pretty badly under her "management", too.

Well... She is probably late to the party as she should have served with the current administration. In fact I suspect that the current administration can actually teach her on how to be more efficient in her favourite trade.

Does Ms Fiorina remind anyone else of Caroline Reynolds - the evil Vice President character from Prison Break?

We don't even need to ask which side of the warrantless surveillance, FISA, retrospective immunity, Department of Fatherland Security debate Carly is on do we? Maybe this is her way of getting back at those damn pesky journos...

Seriously though, I think Carly 'helping' the republicans is exactly what the world needs, if she can bring her unique brand of internal demotivation and external image destruction to bear on the republicans and the evil that is the PNAC then poor Bill Gates is going to have his work cut out doing anything like as much good for the world...

Mark Hurd turned the HP ship around from day one. Slashed money-loosing divisions and concentrating focus on products with healthy margins and services. Actions Fiorina should have done years earlier. It does not look good for her candidature.

She did set Hurd up for victory. Her performance was so poor, so execrable that not only could a competent successor succeed merely by showing up and not screwing up, if he had any ability at all, he'd look terrific by comparison. She lowered expectations to the point that anything that didn't look like bumbling incompetence would seem brilliant. Kind of like George W. Bush and whoever replaces him.

Oh well , with that lot elected to the oval office Zimbabwe/Wiemar Republic style hypersonic stagflation will rage out of control as McCook falls asleep at the wheel on the very first day after being inducted into the P.O.T.U.S office !

Undoubtedly quite a few mushroom clouds will start dotting the landscape soon after , what an interesting choice of an even greater number of pigs at the feeding trough indeed !

"Having rubbed out the Hewlett-Packard brand, the HP Way and HP's competitive position against IBM and Dell..."

Not only is her sterling record at HP on the line, we must not forget her running Lucent into the ground whilst engaging in *cough*dodgy accounting*cough* to hide the red ink.