The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.”
I find it comforting in a way when Democrats try to run on competence. It means (a) they cant run on their ideology because they know it’s unpopular and (b) they are actually *less* competent and are beatable on it.
Maybe that’s why Bush beat the tar out of Dukakis in the election in 1988.
We need to field a super-competent candidate in 2008 to win.
I think we will.