Carly Fiorina, a McCain spokesperson and former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, says Sarah Palin doesn’t have the experience to run a major business. But that’s okay, because she isn’t running for CEO. Now, my question is this. If you had to hire someone to run your business and your choices were Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden, or Sarah Palin, who would you choose?
Three of them have experience running a Senate office, three of them have experience running a national campaign (McCain and Biden did it twice), and one of them has almost two years of executive experience as a governor. On that basis it is hard to distinguish between them. I’d look at the quality of the organizations they’ve put together. And, on that basis, I think Barack Obama leaps off the page as the obvious person to hire. A look back at McCain’s fits and starts in trying to run his campaign (especially in 2007) doesn’t inspire confidence. He did get the job done, but at a tremendous cost, with a severe episode of downsizing, and then only after a complete retooling of his staff and message.
On the whole, just based on the resumes and their records, I’d hire Palin before McCain. But I’m pretty confident Palin would fall to last place after going through a one-on-one interview. She’s not a serious person and she tries to bullshit her way through life.
What say you?
