The big question about Rick O'Donnell

How does a guy who is chummy with George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Ken Mehlman and every other Beltway insider you can name expect to run as an outsider? I mean, O'Donnell must have some non-fictional qualifications, right? Ones he's just waiting to spring on us at some future time?

In all seriousness, I don't have nearly the same enmity for O'Donnell that I do for the GOP's gubernatorial nominee. But his Democratic opponent, Ed Perlmutter, manages to be both more qualified and less indebted to Washington DC insiders.