Is the assumption here that the more experienced candidate is the more HW candidate? Because even in '80, Reagan was more of a HW than Carter, and Clinton was at least as HW as his two opponents.
1980 is debate able, and Ross Perot was definitely a LW, but between Bush, Sr. and Clinton....
Bush -
Two years as a U.S. Congressman
Two years as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
One year as Chairman of the RNC
One year as the U.S. Ambassador to China
One year as the Director of the CIA
Two years as the Director of the CFR
Eight years as Vice-President of the United States
Four years as President of the United States
Clinton -
Two years as the Arkansas State Attorney General
Eleven years (off and on) as Governor of a state with a population of less than 1,000,000 people
I think that Bush, Sr. is a HW.