There's a lot to disagree with in this Patrick Ruffini post (basically all of it, actually), but his list of presidential trajectories is rather interesting. Democrats, he argues, nominate a lot of career politicians. Republicans tend to nominate people who came to politics quite late in life, and didn't show much interest in it earlier. Ruffini, of course, thinks this is a good thing, as it shows the GOP is jus' folks. And fair enough, but it's odd to watch someone exalting a political party because they've decided that running the government of one of the world's largest countries is the sort of job that doesn't require much training or mental preparation. Would Ruffini -- or most any Republican? -- invest in a Fortune 500 company that only hired CEOs who'd shown little interest in running a business?
