Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and McCain campaign surrogate, is thinking about running for Senate in California against Barbara Boxer. An anti-Fiorina site, FiorinaFacts, has debuted, cheering fans of Chuck DeVore, another declared GOP Senate candidate.

The site’s tone, methods, and arguments leave me cold, however. I wouldn’t defend every action and statement of Fiorina, but is the general consensus of the Republican grassroots that they don’t want her to run for any office at all? To just go away?

Apparently so. The site in question declares, “She should probably retire.”

Women who become CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are pretty rare, and those who voluntarily want to become public advocates for the GOP and its agenda are rarer still. Maybe she isn’t the best GOP candidate for the Senate in California in 2010; that’s a decision for that state’s Republicans. But are we really supposed to say “hooray” to an anonymous site that lays out all of her flaws, including generic anti-Republican tropes like “she doesn’t stand up for teachers and students” and “she has no history of fighting for the workers of our state”? What, is somebody cut-and-pasting from the DNC these days?

The site laments that “Carly Fiorina has no history as a conservative warrior.” Indeed, and conservative warriors are generally preferable. But must every GOP candidate for every office have spent their careers in the political arena? Doesn’t useful governing experience comes in all sorts of forms, including outside the political realm?