...to the concern that Fiorina oversimplifies her record at HP, she does that because it's a soundbite culture and politicians who spend lots of time explaining things to people always lose. She knows that it's not just about revenue (and she does also point to the tripling of HP's rate of innovation, the quadrupling of its product lines etc)...but, as a fellow conservative friend of mine said to me recently, if she would like to spend the next five months defending her HP record, she will lose badly. She doesn't have to explain it in detail to me. HP used to not even have a serious laptop game...Compaq laptops used to be the worst in the business. After HP acquired Compaq, HP laptops are easily the best that money can buy. hat is how I view it. It is entirely possible that HP could have been better off in a consulting framework...I will grant that without blinking. But to say that HP has seen any sort of demise is just not correct. She chose to run a tech hardware business and not a tech consulting business. She made the tech hardware business one of the best such businesses in the world. That's good enough for me.