The mistake that this article makes is assuming that purely business decisions are what make or break large corporations these days. When it is, in fact, quite

The mistake that this article makes is assuming that purely business decisions are what make or break large corporations these days. When it is, in fact, quite clear under the current system that politics can greatly determine such a corporation's success. Companies that play the game well, like GM, can get away with a shoddy performance on the business side of things; and companies that try to stay out, like Microsoft in its earlier years, simply cannot. In the case at hand, Whitman is apparently going all in for a Romney win in 2012. If it doesn't happen, she'll probably go the way of Hurd and Apotheker. But if her bets do pay off, HP can expect to be showered with enough governmental benefits to more than cover up any deficiencies on the business side. Bad business decisions, political obsessions, corrupt system? Maybe so. Disaster for HP? Not necessarily.