Former White House chief of staff Andy Card sees something in Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker no one else has said in public life: a possible future president of the United States.
"I believe Charlie Baker is a – he certainly, I think, would be qualified to be president," Card told reporters after delivering a speech to state legislators, according to video provided by State House News Service. "I shouldn't be announcing what his political plans are because I'm not that close to him. But all I can tell you: I think that he is demonstrating really effective leadership in a challenging time in Massachusetts."
Andy Card has always come across as a decent person. But the former Bush aide's prescription for American politics makes us grateful that his preferred types of candidates aren't in power anymore.
Gone, we hope, are the days when the likes of George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney could claim to be the likely and even obvious Republican nominees for president of their day.
