BUSH V. KERRY -- GUT INSTINCT V. THOUGHTFUL, INFORMED DELIBERATION

THIS, via The Smirking Chimp is an excellent analysis of the different approaches to decision-making taken by Bush and Kerry. The intro:

Election 2004 may boil down to a choice between an incumbent president who thinks too little and a challenger who is criticized for thinking too much.
George W. Bush trusts his "gut" over intellect when making decisions. "His instincts are almost his second religion," author Bob Woodward noted in Bush at War. And once Bush has decided what to do, his aides assemble arguments to support or sell the decision, even if that requires hyping, slanting or distorting information.
By contrast, Sen. John Kerry absorbs the facts first, pondering questions from as many angles as possible before coming to conclusions that are often qualified and nuanced, an approach that opens him to criticism that he equivocates or will "flip-flop" on issues.

It is this difference in decision-making styles that rests at the center of Election 2004 - the difference between Bush the believer vs. Kerry the thinker.

Read the whole thing.