The Shallow Salesmanship of Carly Fiorina
Beyond aggressively marketing herself as the female anti-Hillary, hardly a credential in itself, her candidacy rests solely on a tenure as CEO, which ended in her firing. By comparison to other business leaders who have run for president or pondered doing so, Fiorina's record at Hewlett-Packard is less uplifting saga than dead weight, suggesting that she lacks the capacities essential in a successful president.
Richard North Patterson, ContributorNovelist and contributing opinion writer