‘Serious’ hopefuls for president don’t pass muster

Re Bruce Henthorn letter Saturday on Trump not being serious:

I would like to ask if dirty tricks, family legacy, scripted speaker, or an inexperienced doctor would be better. While some try to convince voters who is more liberal, more conservative, more progressive, more evangelical, more socialist, or even more outsider, I wonder if a pragmatist (someone who sees a problem and fixes it) may be just what the voters are looking for.

Anyone who, while driving down the highway, has seen one person with a shovel and five people watching knows that there may be a problem in this country that needs fixing, and it is not the American people; it just may be the serious candidates who are incompetently leading an inefficient government. Sorry Mr. Henthorn, your idea of a serious candidate is just the same old, same old.

This story was originally published February 16, 2016 at 9:55 PM with the headline "‘Serious’ hopefuls for president don’t pass muster."