Line-Up

From left: Mitch Daniels; Chris Christie; Jeb Bush; Haley Barbour.

From The NYT Magazine. Just liked the comic book style. Barely skimmed the text. You probably shouldn't either.

POST-READING UPDATE (2223PDT 7 April 2011): Actually, it couldn't hurt to read it. Short. And further proof of the joke of democracy. Most telling example, other than the four oafs shown above:

Problem is, electoral politics is a highly superficial field. A series of experiments has shown that subjects, even young children, can reliably pick the winners of races based solely on candidate photos. Now, most voters tend to support one party or the other no matter what. But swing voters tend to have the greatest susceptibility to the influence of superficialities.

A condemnation of the entire species, & any hope for it.