WHY CANT SERVING LEGISLATORS WIN THE WHITE HOUSE?
In addition to the above-named legislators, dozens of others have tried to win the presidency and failed miserably. What accounts for this rather poor showing by serving national legislators? The reasons are many. Among them • Lack of executive, managerial, and leadership experience. It may help to be a former governor. But simply being a governor is not sufficient. • Inability to speak in plain English and instead resorting to ‘Legislativese,’ i.e., excessive use of acronyms or obscure terms holding little or no meaning for many, if not, most of the voters. • Inability to compete with the lure (and myth) of the incorruptible outsider (governor or military general) riding into town to rescue the country’s political system. It is true that the 2008 Election will be the first truly ‘open’ election since 1928 in which neither the incumbent president nor his vice president will be a candidate. And while every election has its own dynamic and burning political issues, the odds of a serving
