when most people come to power, you worry about them surrounding themselves with sycophants.
a true leader needs to hear the bad news, too.
a true leader needs to be told he's wrong.
a true leader needs to accept the truth -- good, bad, or ugly.
those who surround themselves with sycophants -- "yes men" who tell them only what they want to hear -- essentially make decisions based on a self-limited set of facts, divorced from reality. so they make bad decisions, fail to change, fail to cut losses.
kinda sounds like shrub, right?
perhaps.
but with rmoney we don't really have to wonder how he'd react to becoming president, because we've already seen his behavior.
he acts in everyway like someone who has so routinely lied, cheated, gotten away with murder and received moutains of cash and praise for every disaster left in his wake that it has become second nature to him and in fact he's actually bewildered when he gets called out for his lying. like he's never experienced that before. they lying, of course. the getting called on it, what's that all about?
rmoney would likely govern very much like shrub as far as policy goes, but with all of cheney's nefariousness. and a good does of his charisma as well.
in short, he would be a disaster.
some of the people i know are actually thinking the only way out of this mess is to give everything over to the republicans and let them ruin america so hopefully they'll get the blame. but we tried that in 2000. got the disaster, but so far not a convincing political realignment....
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