Bush setting the stage for President Hillary?

Tina Brown, as part of a rumination about Harriet Miers and women in government, postulates that George W. Bush has inaugurated the post-masculine presidency (my term, not hers).

Brown suggests that Bush's combination of hyper-macho posturing, professional incompetence and apparent emotional instability has created an environment in which the American electorate no longer considers a female president a metaphysical impossibility.

Twenty years or even 10 years ago ABC's "Commander in Chief" would have been a sitcom, not a drama. Now it's Bush who's the sitcom, though the laughs are bitter. He's the biggest reason why female leaders suddenly seem so relevant. He has debased the currency of machismo. From Iraq to New Orleans and back to Washington, his empty posturings, bonehead mistakes and panicky pratfalls have turned testosterone into Kryptonite. The cultural stage is being set for a woman president, even if the current understudies, from Hillary to Condi, end up stumbling over their own props or never come out of the wings.

The only thing I have to add is that Tina is more right than she knows about "Commander in Chief." Twenty years ago, it was a sitcom!