[The Electrician]

She is as competent, ambitious and driven a politician as they come.

The author must be using one of the lesser-known meanings of the word "competent". You know, the one that means "not competent"...

[ImpBill]

Obviously she is a competent politician. She is continually re-elected. And obviously she is ambitious and quite obviously she is driven.

So the statement, as written, is not entirely wrong.

Does this mean she is what the country needs? Absolutely not. It would be a disaster. First for the President, but more importantly for the Republic.