Condi? Stab Me In The Freaking Liver!

Brett Stephens has so hacked into my psyche, leastwise here,  that ... that I hope he understands crochet or plays the Zither so I get some osmosissy trade-offs. Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you (me) might say its ideas were pretty good—only the execution often left something to be desired. Now the person who did much of the executing tops a list of names to be Mitt Romney's running mate. Guess who?