HP's poor luck with CEOs

With all the fuss about yet another ejected HP CEO, I can't help remembering Carly Fiorina, about three ejected CEOs ago. Who ran for office in California. With THIS:

I mean, if you were a company board, would you hire the sort of person who'd greenlight that as a CEO?

Incidentally, the new HP CEO, Meg Whitman, former eBay CEO, also ran for office in California, but had less insane ads.