Carly Fiorina's comment dismissing the idea that Sara Palin could run Hewlett Packard is a Rorschach test. It tells us little of Fiorina's view of Palin. Our reactions to it speak volumes. Specifically, it provides a glimpse into the psychological makeup of the worshippers at the Holy Church of Big Government. In their minds, experience enough to preside over the federal government equips you with a universal set of tools to do anything. Of course anyone able to preside over the federal government should be able to run a multi-billion dollar business! This attitude is as awestruck by the state as it is contemptuous of business. George W. Bush struggled in fielding a successful major league baseball team, Bill Clinton never even used email as president, and George H.W. Bush would have made a bad supermarket checkout girl. There is a conceit among those in big jobs that they can do any job. They can't. There is a delusion among statists that only the wisest, noblest, and best rule. They don't. The former Hewlett Packard chief clarified her Palin observation: "Well, I don't think John McCain could run a major corporation; I don't think Barack Obama could run a major corporation; I don't think Joe Biden could run a major corporation." Agreed, and I don't think Carly Fiorina would make a good president. The former is no insult to McCain, Palin, Obama, and Biden; the latter, no insult to Fiorina.

This attitude is as awestruck by the state as it is contemptuous of business.

Great insight, and well put.

Uuhh, hate to break it to you Carly, but YOU are not capable of running HP. She helped destroy and drive AT&T into the ground, then she drove HP into the ground while getting her ass handed to her by EVERY SINGLE COMPETITOR. She's the Donovan McNabb of business world. She had ONE "success" (the Lucent IPO, which in hindsight wasn't good for ANYONE except the people that got rich on the first day), and is otherwise only famous for being a woman.

"The Donovan McNabb of X" may be my new favorite pejorative Homer