Too bad the whole bunch can’t get together, president, vice-president, congress, all of them, and present not only a cabinet, but also concrete plans for what they intend to do.
Truth is, if the electorate isn’t going to support it as time goes by then it just wastes political energy to try it.
Oh well, I can dream can’t I?
Thompson/Hunter would be formidably intelligent. But I don’t know if Hunter’s best place is as VP and I don’t know if he’d bring that much more additional support to the ticket.
Upon looking at our candidates and how they’re each drawing different segments of the Republican base, but not all segments, recently I’ve been wondering if the Republicans couldn’t coalesce some of these candidates into some sort of future superteam to take to the election. Fred, IMO, would have to be the nominee for POTUS. We’d need a leader at the top who can keep everyone in line, and only one with steadfast conservative principles can do that. Put Rudy as Attorney General. Hunter I think would be best placed at Homeland Security. That way he could have direct influence in an area where he has a stellar record and could gain serious name recognition that way. Romney could be VP. He looks like one, is well spoken (veep is often the administration attack dog), and has good support in the party (though maybe not high enough to be POTUS right now). Plus, if he really still wants Pres, he’d be in a position where he’d be forced to demonstrate his conservative bona fides for everyone to see and being veep would knock down his high negatives. McCain, I don’t know if I see any place for him given his age. Plus, his stance on torture disqualifies him from SecDef where you think he’d go. Huckabee can ambassador to some place in Africa where they could use his Christian message. I wouldn’t want him anywhere near executive power given his record and recent statements and just general liberalism.
Just brainstorming here. I don’t even necessarily prefer a situation like this. The prospective of it might be uniting for the various factions, though. And if any of these guys still wanted to run for Pres later they’d need to prove themselves in their respective roles for everyone to see. Just a thought.