Party over policy.

• Author: Sullivan, John
• Position: LETTERS - Letter to the editor

Jonathan Bernstein's "Party Animals" (September/October 2012), about how Mitt Romney might staff his administration, if elected, ignores a key factor driving this: over the past forty years, the White House apparatus--political and policy--has become too large for any president to operate it without looking outside his inner circle. Senate staffs are only so large, and don't contain all the skill sets needed to successfully run a...