Posted on 09/12/2014 2:15:28 PM PDT by taildragger
WJR Radio at the top of the Hr noted Former Ford CEO Alan Mulally is considering or looking into a run for POTUS
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/09/ex-ford-ceo-may-be-mulling-presidential-bid/
hummmmm! I believe his ability to manage the government would surpass any other candidate. He knows how to cut costs and reorganize a big organization. However, I would like to know more about his positions on all the hot button issues of the day. I do like the way he stood up against the government when they tried to take over the auto industry.
In my book, having served in an elected office is not an asset.
As for Mulalley...Elective experience is not always necessary if one has management/executive experience...especially as head of a huge American company.
And prior to that, among other successes he was Chief Engineer on the Boeing 777. FORD had enough confidence in his ability to save THEIR bacon that they paid him a $21 Million bonus to leave Boeing and come pull Ford’s chestnuts out of the fire, which he did, WITHOUT a gubmint handout. Yep! Bacon and chestnuts....Mulally saved them both.
Thanks for that, he almost had me fooled.
Economically speaking, bring in an entire team of any good U.S. corporation and replace Congress, the executive branch and the cabinet..all of them gone at once. People who do productive work for a living would be better than these current parasites/progressives/panderers/puppets/punks.
Save it.
CRUZ 2016!
LOL! I hear you. Mulally is one hell of an excellent executive. These guys (who've "never heard of him"), obviously don't know what they're talking about. I don't know what his politics are, but I do know he knows how to manage in an extremely complex crisis and succeed. I'd certainly give him a chance to explain what he believes the best policies are for the USA in a massive spiral downward (e.g. 150 trillion in unfunded liabilities).
Sounds like another Myth Romney to me.
HA! I KNEW it! I KNEW he was going to run when he announced he was leaving Ford!
Ford didn’t need bail out, they had leadership to make them fiscally sound!
There are a number of cabinet officers in which a man of this caliber can excel. He shouldn’t have to be president.
He also was VP of another all American...Boeing.
He was also raised as an orthodox Christian...unlike Romney.
It's the intangibles "Uncommonsense" that people don't see. A Ford gnome told me one day "you know, people are walking with their shoulders back, heads up and smiling" Mulally's Cultural Change worked. Just like Reagan giving us pep talks and telling us "You ain't seen nothing yet" America needs that kind of a shot in the arm. We desperatel need a booster shot because the 6 years have been like walking around with a low grade Strep, the Country is as sick as a dog, we are sick of you know who and what he is doing to our country and we see it here on FR. Most folks, their heads are stuck, well you can name a number of various places, including the sand.
I want my American Culture back, you know the American Exceptionalism one, not his pink panty waist "you didn't build that" and NASA prime mission is to...I can't even say it because I am so sick of the last 6 years.
Maybe Mulally is the guy to make us feel good about America Again, instead of this constant Russian Dirge March we are on....
I want my America back Dammit....
The Edsel was named after a "corporate hero" of WWII.
I bought a Pinto with 2-liter engine/transmission (made in Germany), raced it SCCA's "Showroom Stock" class, sold it to my Dad, who sold it to my girlfriend—who I married. After paying a dollar-a-pound for the Pinto in 1971, and driving it for 6+ years, we sold it for ¾ of what I paid for it!
Also, engineers and managers don't always have the political sense to make their forays into electoral politics and national government work. Cases in point: Herbert Hoover, the Great Engineer, and Jimmy Carter, who was at least on paper some kind of nuclear engineer. Their way of thinking just wasn't the kind of thinking that works well in the White House.
Maybe you could add MBAs G.W. Bush, and Mitt Romney to the list: not bad guys to have a beer with, maybe, but Bush wasn't on top of some important things, and Romney certainly wasn't very good at electioneering.
So Mulally may not deserve all of the automatic putdowns that are so easy to make up, but he wouldn't be my first choice for president by any means.
An outsider might be the only ticket other than a Cruz. With an outsider we do not get an E-GOP toadie. IMHO Mulally would be on the top of that list, Ben Carson right below him and my outside favorite who's time IMHO has come because he his making more and more sense each day is Steve Forbes.
Will any of the three happen? Hell no, I may have to hold my nose again with the css alowns in the E-GOP and what they are gonna foist on us again especially after what the field looks like for 2014.
Again the big thing in Mulally's favor that I think no one see's is the culture change he brought about in Ford. if you didn't want the "One Ford" way forward, you either self regulated out or you were asked to go. No more fiefdoms, a lot has happened that was about setting a tone like Reagan did. It is a huge organization with a ton of broken-parts that needed to be downsized, closed or fixed, and dag nab it he and his team did it.
That is another thing, he will build a team of the best he can find to get things done. Research the gent he brought aboard from Boeing that got a liveable agreement with the UAW. That was a flippin' miracle. So is this the guy to look @ every flippin' program since FDR, and scrap, or fix it? U-Huh!
Is the only solution Levin's "Liberty Amendments? Maybe.
Give Mulally a chance to change dysfunctionality into a healthy system? I'd be willing to give him a try at it...
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