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Okay, he's a talented manager. But to be head of a giant multinational is already to be multinational or transnational and likely to think more in terms of something other than the interests of one country and its people.

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.

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I understand the sentiment. But my Million dollar question is, is the GOP's only hope an outsider. You know we are gonna get the following for the next Presidential go-arounds from the DNC, a women, then a Hispanic then a ?, you know the drill, nominate a comrade more equal than others that you can't criticize or you are a racist.

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...