In his weekly Carlson Chronicles column, Chris Carlson suggests that only governors or former governors have the qualifications to be president:

There ought to be an amendment to the Constitutional amendment that limits the terms of a president to two consecutive terms which would require each major political party’s nominee for President come only from the ranks of that party’s governors.

There simply is no substitute for executive experience, in particular government executive experience; and, while we are at it, let’s ban that asinine phrase usually uttered by members of the United States Senate, that they’re going to run the government like a business when they become president.

If ever there was an ignorant phrase, that’s it.  Government is not a business as any governor will tell one.

Think how much better off we would be today if both party’s nominees for the presidency were governors.  As a nation we would not be despairing over the Hobbseian choice we are facing in the fall with a narcissistic, egomanic billionaire who claims he alone can change the federal government and run it like a business (Ignore his three bankruptcies please) on one side. On the other side we have a U.S. Senator who, like most senators, has run nothing larger than a Senate staff. More here.

Question: What do you think of Chris' idea?

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