DodgeGlobe.com:Chalt: Cement sack, yes, but with concrete ideas By Jonathan Chalt

If [Kerry] can’t run a campaign, the argument goes, he would never have been able to run the White House.

That sounds reasonable enough unless you consider the fact that George W. Bush is a highly competent campaigner but a flaming disaster of a president. And it is exactly those things that make him so ruthlessly effective on the stump – centralized authority, party discipline, total disregard for the truth – that have created a hermetically sealed petri dish in which bad policies come to life and are carried out unchallenged. …

[A] president who struggles to enact decent policies is surely better than one who easily enacts awful policies.