The public has grown accustomed to living in a world where Chinese and Russian leaders have the capacity to destroy much of America in an hour, because those countries appear to be run by level-headed leaders.
Applicants had to be proven seamen, hard-working and level-headed, with a spotless criminal record (Houston uses private investigators to check up on that).
After all, he has always been the Republican front-runner, the one the most level-headed pundits have always thought would be the Republican candidate in the end.
Michael is the most level-headed and knowledgeable about the family company and it makes perfect sense that he should be handed the position, but George Bluth Sr. gives the spot to Lucille instead and at the worst possible time.