He ascribed those (and not only publicly) to Eisenhower's political inexperience at the time.

Schmidt had the advantages of a Republican majority in the district, her incumbency, and her opponent's political inexperience.

Proponents of term limits and other critics of today's Washington sometimes treat political inexperience as a virtue.

At the moment, it is his perceived political inexperience.

Despite his political inexperience, he rose for a time in the polls and proved a prodigious fund-raiser.

He soon met with resistance from several factions, owing to his relative political inexperience.

This failure could be explained as the product of political inexperience.

He has also won the support of politicians who have grown disgruntled with their own parties - they could help counter accusations of political inexperience.

Whatever the reason, even his friends did not believe his announcement was wise due to his political inexperience.

But he has now shed the institutional route and hopes to make his political inexperience his greatest virtue.