I haven’t heard her speak, so I’m not aware of her positions outside of the On The Issues quiz. Finding her in the polls is difficult. And whether she would be a competent public leader is an open question; I have little faith that her corporate executive experience truly transfers over, which is one of my pet peeves:
Let’s consider something else that can get my knickers in a knot – the businessman who decides to run for office and repeatedly offers up his businessman experience, his acumen, as his credentials that makes him qualified for office – H. Ross Perot being the best known example in my lifetime (“I just want to get under the hood and fix things.”). So what’s wrong with this picture?
What we’re forgetting is that the goal of business – commerce – is NOT the goal of the government. I’m finding it a little hard to articulate the goals of government that are not objectionable to someone out there, so I’ll suggest that, if only currently, the goals of government are to protect society from outside intervention; and regulate the internal interactions of society, individually and collectively, such that, well, colloquially, everyone is equally unhappy; or that everyone is justly, according to their actions, treated.
Paul Mirengoff at PowerLine agrees:
I’m no more enthusiastic about Fiornia’s candidacy than I was about Cain’s. The Republicans should nominate a candidate who has successfully governed a state or who has mastered public policy issues, including foreign policy, while serving with distinction in the U.S. Senate (note: co-sponsoring amnesty legislation with Chuck Schumer doesn’t count as serving with distinction).
My sense is that Fiorina is actually running for vice president. She’s more than intelligent enough to know that (1) she can’t win the presidential nomination but (2) the nominee will be tempted to name a female running mate.
Ex-colleagues and other industry observers are dubious:
“She put herself ahead of the interests of the company and I fear she would do the same as president,” Jason Burnett, a grandson of the late HP co-founder David Packard and a member of the Packard Foundation board of trustees, told the Guardian. “I don’t want her to do harm to this country.”
HP’s longtime director of corporate communications, Roy Verley, said his ex-boss alienated colleagues with a “cult of Carly” that put self-promotion first.
“She didn’t know what she was doing and couldn’t deliver on her promises,” said Verley, who left HP in 2000.
The notion of a successful Fiorina reign at HP, he said, was “fantasy”.
Her website is here.
