Wednesday, February 11, 2004

Five Tools of Politics

While Boot's template for gauging candidate skills has merit, his assessment of Bush's measure against it has some problems.

He takes the Florida non-recount as evidence of Bush's fire-in-the-belly. But there's a big difference between fire-in-the-belly and a prostituted Supreme Court.

He takes the Tim Russert appearance as evidence of his self-discipline. Tim was a pansy and Bush just kept parroting the same tired evasions. I guess it shows discipline of some sort but not of a sort to be admired in any way.

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