The MSM has always told us W is stupid.
So his successor moving up into a position of increasing responsibility and exposure must be purely accidental.
In two years when VP Cheney announces his resignation,
and SoS Rice is nominated to move up again that will be accidental too.
They have always said the Republican Presidential candidate is stupid. And many in the MSM have tried to portray Condi as stupid--which is so absurd as to be laughable. If the MSM wants to erode the tiny vestiges of credibility they have left after this last election, who cares?