"'If you're flying from Boston to London, you want to be flying with somebody that gives a heck of a good presentation on aerodynamics and why the airplane stays in the air, that has you on the edge of your seat with excitement because they're such a great speaker ... but they got 150 hours of flying time? Or do you want to be with that grizzled, old, 20,000-hour captain who's taken that airplane back and forth thousands of times safely?' As governor of Texas for 14 years, Perry has been using his long tenure as a key selling point on the trail, highlighting the jobs created in the state and the tort reform that he helped push through."
"The governor-versus-senator storyline is one that will likely be amplified as more candidates—many of them governors and former governors themselves—start getting in the race. In an interview that aired Thursday morning, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also pointed to Obama as an example of taking a chance on a young senator. "While I have great respect for a number of those folks, I don't believe that we've done well with the experiment of a one-term U.S. senator being President of the United States," he said on NBC's Today."
Rick Perry hits 2016 GOP hopefuls over experience - CNN.com
With Mike Huckabee making an announcement tonight (on Bret Baier's show at 6:00P) about his 2016 plans, I hope more of the governors and others with actual experience running things, talk more about this subject. That, and states rights.
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