[AmericanInTokyo]

Reagan hired John Sears (who screwed him royally in Iowa through incompetence essentially giving it to G.H.W. Bush) and subsequently had to fire him from the 1980 campaign--I mean right on the day of the New Hampshire primary.

Did that bad choice in a campaign manager make Ronald Reagan a bad leader? (by your logic).

[Nervous Tick]

Reagan had the sense to fire him.

Bachmann’s poor advisors don’t get fired — they quit.

But, yeah, whether Reagan or Bachmann, it shows poor judgment in the individual case. Whether individual cases of poor judgment aggregate to an overall indictment of poor judgment is seen in hindsight. Reagan passed — his good judgment outweighed his bad. Will Bachmann? I see her cases of poor judgment piling up against a rather thin base of experience.

I’ll tell you this: if she abandons her conservatism to join Romney in attacking Perry over Socialist Security, she’s dead to me. That’s one big case of REALLY poor judgment.