Reply #215: Paul Wellstone had very little experience in politics

[Hippo_Tron]

But he was smart enough to pick up on how things work there very quickly.

If you were talking about an executive position like Governor or President where life and death decisions are made then I would agree that prior experience would be a very good thing. But a US Senator works in the long term and doesn't make life and death decisions and thus there is time for someone new to the job to learn the ropes. Again, I noted that Wellstone was smart enough to pick up on things very quickly and I'm noting that that is one of the key parts of this. Not everyone is cut out to be a US Senator but I think that Hackett certainly is.

BTW, if you had heard Hackett on Ed Schultz today, you would know that he is very interested in seeing that Sherrod Brown beats DeWine in November. He said that, that was one of the reasons (although a minor one) that led him to drop our ot the race. So I think that your statement about his ambitions being more important than getting a Dem to replace DeWine are way off.