That’s because Mitch has been in politics since he was knee-high to a June bug. Dr. Frist only got into politics the moment he declared for the Senate in 1994. He was attacked for not having cast votes for office before he ran. As I said, he was fine as a backbencher, but he couldn’t handle a leadership position against others who had spent their entire lives either in or running for office. Dingy Harry had 4 decades in the political game when Frist had just 1 when he was made Majority Leader.
So why was such a tyro made Majority Leader?