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Tommy Elrod
W was a businessman who had an MBA. How did that turn out?
People said "It'll be nice to have a President who knows how to run a business" when he was elected.
I don't recall people saying that. Bush's business experience was never touted, perhaps for good reason since he wasn't very successful. His oil business faltered when the oil industry went tits up in the 80s. A lot of smart people lost money then, so that wasn't particularly telling about his business acumen. Apart from that, he bought a share of the Rangers.
I think that people were drawn to Bush more due to his experience as Governor and the fact that he had a personality and Gore did not. His real world experience in the business universe was padding, but pretty thin padding.