kut, i agree w you on the cronyism. Bush telling us that "Brownie, you are doing a great job"FEMa/Katrina infamy) makes me sick. You can even throw rumsfeld, rove into the mix for good measure.
But you can't equate executive experience in running a campaign with a budget with running a state.
No candidate is perfect , just one who is less imperfect than the other. The bigest issue facing us next 10 years is probably going to be dealing w/ russia since the most facets of OUR economy hinges tremendously on energy which Russia clearly has a stranglehold on.