In a column They Didn’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow, Sunday, January 6, 2007, New York Times columnist, Frank Rich wrote that the Iowa caucuses served as a lesson that change -- not experience -- is what voters value most in this Presidential primary:
But if Clinton operatives know how to go negative, they don’t have the positive balance of a 21st-century message. Iowa confirmed that the message the campaign has used to date — experience — is D.O.A. in post-Bush America. It was fascinating to watch that realization sink in on Thursday night. In her concession speech, Mrs. Clinton had her husband, the most tangible totem of her experience, standing right beside her, yet she didn’t mention him or so much as acknowledge him.
Although I don't have a dog in the Democratic presidential race, I'm not so sure I would conclude that "experience" is DOA. All Hillary would need to do (as opposed to torturing her campaign message to conform to a "change" paradigm) is run an ad showing Katrina victims in the Superdome and on their roofs, cut to Brownie being congratulated for doing a "heckava job," and end with the tag line "Sometimes Change Isn't Good Enough. Experience Counts."
