Bush's daddy was an honorable man, but he had no clue how to staff, and enforce discipline among, his Cabinet and advisory staff. That's how guys like Souter happen, that's how tax increases happen and that's how he's thrown into a grocery line where he has to prove he knows how much a quart of milk costs. That's how lies about the economy become accepted. That's how a clinically insane meglomaniac like Ross Perot gains credibility. The David Souter nomination will injure us for 20 years hence. That guy was 47 and lived with his mother in her house when he was deemed the rising superstar of jurisprudence. What a gaffe. Sununu was being threatened by the Dixie Mafia, or on Perot's payroll I swear.
Mary Matalin was inner circle. James Carville was Clinton's inner circle. They married soon after the election. That's all you need to know.