Great presidents need to be able to weather great trials and come out unbroken.  Great presidents need resilience.  Who among the Republican candidates has a life story that shows the sort of resilience?  I think Carly Fiorina does.  Consider her last ten years. In 2005, she was fired as CEO of Hewlett-Packard.   Regardless of whether the board of directors fired her wisely or not, it surely must have been a tough blow to a woman who had worked her way up the corporate ladder from office secretary to CEO of a giant company.  Her path to success was much more difficult than that of Trump, the son of a New York millionaire.  Many people would have crawled into a comfortable burrow and stayed put, but Fiorina did not. In 2009, Carly Fiorina was treated for breast cancer.  She survived an illness terrifying for any woman, a disease that brings not only fear of death but the fear of living afterward.  No one would have thought less of...(Read Full Post)