Re: "The Adlai Stevenson Disease"
Yes, but also perceived by many as weak and ineffectual.
I think it is possible to portray the positive without the negative, but Stevenson didn't pull it off.
I thought Kennedy did it better than anyone I can think of, off hand, in my lifetime.
Intelligence and natural refinement are on the short list of presidential qualities but they are not at the top. Maybe they should be, I'm ambivalent. It could be the crux of our problem.
Too soon to say whether Huntsman can exude some gravitas. He did not appear to last night.
I have to agree with the pundits that Romney won big last night and critiquing the others is splitting hairs for now.