In the wake of last night's victory in NY, Carly Simon - wait, I mean Carly Fiorina - sees the handwriting on the wall. Clearly taking her cue from Erik Erickson and Sarahcuda, and using the same flawless reasoning and prognosticative genius that brought Hewlett Packard to the brink of bankruptcy when she ran it, Carly has decided that the tide is once more turning toward the GOP and has announced that she plans to run against Barbara Boxer next year, apparently incensed that Boxer wrote a novel while she was Senator.

Former Silicon Valley executive Carly Fiorina announced Wednesday she is running for the chance to seize liberal stalwart Barbara Boxer's U.S. Senate seat, depicting the three-term Democrat as a Capitol Hill do-nothing who penned novels while jobs vanished and government spending soared.

The job vanishing and spending-soaring were, of course, not the responsibility of 2-term, 8-year Pres George W Bush. No no. It was Barbara all along. Who knew?

Fiorina described herself Wednesday as a Republican devoted to low taxes and tightfisted budgets and "a political newcomer who actually knows how to get something done."

Yeah - she knows how to get rich by driving her company into the ground. Very attractive talent to voters, right? Boxer's people think, "Not so much".

Mrs. Boxer’s campaign manager, Rose Kapolczynksi, issued a statement saying, “California needs a Senator who will fight to create jobs — not a failed C.E.O. who laid off 28,000 Americans and shipped jobs overseas.”

That would be a problem in the general, perhaps, but she might take the GOP primary because Republicans just looove that sort of behaviour. What with the bunch that isn't Beckian Batshit-insane populists being firmly in the investor class.

I guess Republicans just can't help it.