When Rick Scott, a wealthy businessman with few political skills, was elected Governor of Florida in 2010, I (sort of) joked that his first task as the CEO of Florida, Inc. would be to identify his underperforming assets ( the elderly, children, the poor, etc.), securitize them, and sell them off to German investors. Fiorina gives me the same feeling, but on a national scale.
As I have noted on multiple occasions, running a business is a fundamentally different task than running a government. From Fiorina’s perspective, however, I can see the appeal of a public sector job; unlike HP, the shareholders voters would have to wait four years to remove her from office.