[depressed in 06]

I want a VP that has read “The Failure Factory” and knows that Bolshecrat bureaucrats will screw up any administration. I want someone like Dick Cheney, and, Allen West comes to mind.

[arthurus]

The bureaucracy is the permanent government. Most Republican administrations have shown an unwillingness to even try to deal with it. Reagan tried at first but had a Congress that clucthes that bureaucracy to its heart and will not let go. Reagan settled for bypassing the CIA in crucial matters.

A new Democrat administration embarks immediately on a wholesale housecleaning(side note: and a purge of the military officer corps), getting rid of and replacing every Republican installed bureaucrat and functionary they can reach.

Republicans add a few of their own but leave the prepositioned Democrat appointments in place. Similarly with the judiciary, Republicans tend to "balance" their judicial appointments while Democrats appoint only hard left Democrats and socialists. In the special case of USSC appointments the Republicans in the Senate tend to be magnanimous in allowing the Democrat president to have his choice and fight only a few of the most egregious appointments. Democrat Senators fight tooth and nail against ANY conservative appointment.

A result is that Republican administrations are actively sabotaged by their own Cabinet Departments, especially State.

The permanent government belongs to the Democrats/socialists and always will until/unless the agencies and bureaus and most of the Cabinet Departments are totally eliminated.
It won't happen.