Whitman's political ambitions died in the Governors race she lost in California. She spent over $100mm of her own money and couldn't get more than 41.7% of the

Whitman's political ambitions died in the Governors race she lost in California. She spent over $100mm of her own money and couldn't get more than 41.7% of the vote. It wasn't even close and she out-spent Jerry Brown by more than 5:1. She may be distracted by her desire to be a political insider, but she can't be so delusional to believe she would be a VP candidate or even a presidential hopeful, now or in 2016. She's far too polarizing of a figure. To put it another way, if Hillary, who was already a multi-tenured Senator couldn't get the democratic nomination then there is no way a non-politico from California would ever get a piece of the GOP pie. That was cemented after her loss in the Governor's race. I think she's fine for HP, though I wasn't unhappy with Léo Apotheker. Then again, I wasn't an HP shareholder either. :-)