Anyone else see the irony in how the GOP are always talking about how the government cant do anything right and the private sector/free market is the key to everything...and yet the majority of the caucuses run by the (private sector) Republican Party are total clusterf##ks.
...and of course if Ron Paul gets his way with his Ninja delegates, he will make an even bigger mockery of them.
I'm not sure political parties count as archetypal "private sector" exactly. I mean, they're not business concerns really. It's more like a faith-based charity if anything (non-for-profit, plus the whole bias to hiring likeminded people thing).
Obviously, running elections is not a sector where competition can do much good, though.