Get Real, Carly

Is this a great country or what? Carly Fiorina announced this morning on Good Morning America that she's running for the Republican nomination for President, which means she has plenty of money and time on her hands. What in the world is she thinking?

"Our founders never intended to have a professional political class, they believed that citizens and leaders needed to step forward," she said in a video post.

That may be true, but the founders also believed there must be justification for putting people into office. There's neither rhyme nor reason for Carly's campaign.

She's running based on her business record, which was largely a disaster at Hewlett Packard.

As CEO, she presided over the doomed Compaq acquisition, a deal that brought nothing but headaches for the one-time bluest of Silicon Valley's blue-chips. She feuded with the founding family of HP, and ultimately laid off 30,000 people.

HP's board finally had enough, canning Carly, who walked away with a cool $21M windfall, which added little luster to her corporate legacy.

Fiorina already used that business savvy line in a 2010 race against Barbara Boxer in the California Senate race. She lost by 10 points. Obviously, her business acumen didn't count for too much. Why trot it out again?

Carly ranks dead last with an anemic 1.4 percent vote in a survey of Republican probable candidates. That's below long-shots of long-shots including Bobby Jindal (1.5 percent), Rick Santorum (1.6 percent) and John Kasich (1.8 percent).

Even hard-right neurosurgeon Ben Carson (5.7 percent) is miles ahead of poor Carly, who sees herself as the female alternative to Hillary Clinton.

Fiorina's run for office is nothing but an ego trip for a wealthy woman, who desperately wants to be part of the national dialog.

She has as much of a chance of moving into the White House as the New York Knicks have to be crowned 2016 champions of the NBA.

Good luck, Carly. It's your nickel.