Chancellor Debate

I see the Conservatives are already deploying the George W Bush defence for George Osborne's unimpressive performance in the Chancellor debate last night. This goes along the lines of "Our guy is so incredibly useless, he wins just by not getting slaughtered". This doesn't seem like a very good argument to me, but it helped George Bush win the Presidency twice, and look how well that turned out. What George Bush did to the world, George Osborne can do to the British economy.