I firmly believe that the Second Tier Democrats: Richardson, Biden, and Dodd are more qualified than the first tier Democrats. And with the exception of Mike Huckabee, all the Republicans are as qualified or more so than the Second Tier Dems.
I really don't mean this to be facetious, but I despise those people for their cloying, phony, politically correct, smash-mouth, sleazy liberalism, that whatever their "qualifications" might be are totally insignificant compared with the damage they would do to this country from high positions.