Executive experience matters

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John McCormack argues that Rep. Paul Ryan’s vulnerabilities in a presidential election wouldn’t be any worse than the rest of the Republican field. I’ve already given my own reasons for why I think Ryan would have a tough time winning the Republican nomination, which I think still stand after reading McCormack’s piece and a response by Quin Hillyer. But I just wanted to respond specifically to McCormack’s dismissal of the importance of executive experience.

To start, McCormack writes:

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