Think about it...

Merkel in Germany, Royal surging and Sarkozy looking vulnerable in France, and Hillary the leading Dem candidate in a U.S. tired of GOP leadership.

What would it be like to have Germany, France and America all led by women at the same time?

This day will come faster than expected, so the male tendency to sell by fear will have to give a bit, one imagines.

And I think this would be a very good thing, making many more good things quite possible.

Bush can't sell Chirac and Schroeder on a host of issues, but would Hillary have the same problems with Royal and Merkel? I think not.

I'm not talking less competitive. I'm talking less binary.

Royal markets herself as the mother-protector of France in the age of globalization.

Think about that. I would expect more SysAdmin, less Leviathan.

And I think that would be a very good thing.