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That’s the rumor around the political circuit. She joined his campaign a while back. Now, she’s being touted as the talent who will bring Hillary supporters to McCain.

“No American has a God-given right to a job

Fiorina, 53, joined the Republican senator’s presidential campaign this spring…While the new gig is her first in politics, her name already has been tossed around as a possible vice presidential running mate. McCain has said he’s not as strong on economics as he is on national security, so he needs accomplished business leaders, like Fiorina, advising him…

“She almost destroyed one of the nation’s great corporate treasures — she made a mess of HP, she made it an extraordinarily unpleasant place to work,” said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at the Yale School of Management and longtime critic of Fiorina’s. “She represents sizzle over steak and style over substance — that would damage the integrity and credibility of the McCain campaign…”

Some say Fiorina may have simply been out of her element at HP, as someone whose focus on marketing and branding made her an odd fit in HP’s hardcore techie culture.

She drew snickers from some longtime HPers for the company’s decision in 2004 to sell HP-branded iPods. The idea was to liven up the company’s staid image, but HP abandoned the initiative the following year.

“My leadership at HP has been completely validated by the results HP posted the day after I was fired until today,” Fiorina said in a recent interview. “Leadership is about making tough choices, and I think I recognize that in others. That’s what attracts me to John McCain — he’s a leader.”

Some folks would say HP’s latest results are exactly because she’s not there anymore.

Best known as an advocate of outsourcing, her policy of snooping on staff and journalists doesn’t inspire confidence in her understanding of civil liberties, either.