If I were Barbara Boxer, whom would I hope, wish, and pray to run against in November of next year?

Why, precisely the person who today filed papers to run:  Carly Fiorina. Her term as CEO of Hewlett Packard was such a disaster they should’ve renamed the company Hewlett Edsel.

Here’s my favorite line from the story in today’s LA Times:

Fiorina was fired from Hewlett Packard after a rocky tenure marked by lavish compensation, layoffs and a messy merger.

Oh, is that all. Wow. What a great time in the zeitgeist to run with that resume. Perhaps we should add:  “And then served as a senior adviser to John McCain’s presidential campaign.” With a resume so untrammeled by success, I’m surprised Fiorina didn’t move over to AIG.

The Boxer campaign will doubtless act down-in-the-mouth about the prospects of squaring off against what they’ll play up as the fearsome and well-financed Fiorina. But secretly they must be licking their lips.

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