Art Imitating Life?

The cliché has been that Republicans can campaign but they cannot govern. Once again they demonstrated that sometimes slogans carry a lot of truth. The Iowa primary for the presidential nomination was run by the Iowa Republican party, not the Iowa state election commission. Following the election, Mitt Romney was declared the winner by 8 votes over Rick Santorum. Weeks later, after a recount, it was learned that the first count excluded the results of one or more precincts. Now, the winner is said to be Rick Santorum by a margin of 34 votes. However, that is a qualified announcement since it includes 99% of the precinct vote counts. If republicans cannot successfully manage a primary election what are the chances of their success in governing? One can look at the way republican government handled Katrina, estimated the costs of the Iraq war, created Medicare D, and many other issues over the Reagan and Bush presidencies and have to agree with the cliché. Just look at the results of supply-side, trickle-down economics as it related to the deficit. What more proof is needed? Competence in governing is not a quality that republicans have demonstrated. If Romney or Gingrich will govern the way they have been campaigning the country cannot afford to allow republicans to demonstrate their incompetency and ineptness in the future.