Here’s Andrew Sullivan, in the [London] Sunday Times, writing about the current interest in whether Al Gore will run for President in 2008:
Gore’s penchant for detail, for policy wonkery, has also, in the wake of Bush, come to seem less of an irritant and more of an asset. After watching the incompetence in Iraq and after Katrina, Americans are beginning to want a president who is interested in how government works. Bush never has been. That was his charm. It has also proved his undoing.
Hmm. Competence. Professionalism. What strange, alien concepts in 21st century America….