IMHO we should make up a job description for the office of POTUS:It strikes me that Guliani would be good at some important stuff - the economy and security - and bad primarily on stuff that is outside the actual mandate of the government. Securing liberty is primarily not doing things that aren't the government's business.
- Head of State - represent the country and its values.
- Head of Government:
form a more perfect UnionDone, to a fault, by the Seventeenth Amendment.- establish Justice
- nominate judges and justices who will respect and uphold the Constitution and the law.
- Nominate and supervise the Attorney General
- insure domestic Tranquility - FBI, Dept of Homeland Security.
- provide for the common defense - nominate and supervise the SecDef.
- promote the general Welfare - nominate and supervise:
- Secretary of the Treasury
- Secretary of the Interior
- Secretary of Commerce
- Chairman of the Federal Reserve
- Chairman of the SEC
- Secretary of Transportation
- Secretary of Education
- Secetary of Labor
- Secretary of HHS
- Surgeon General
- secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity
Nominate
- FCC members
- FEC members
And that although McCain is prolife, he not only is extremely subversive of the First Amendment, he is not as good a Guliani on the economy. The conclusion is that there are Federal Departments - Treasury, Justice, Homeland Security, possibly HHS and Education - that Guliani would be qualified to head, but between those two we want "none of the above" for POTUS.
The other two top tier "candidates," Romney and Gingrich, are also quite different cases. Romney would be good at getting things done, and at representing the ideals of the country, but what would he do? Gingrich has a messy personal life which compromises his utility as head of state, and has no executive experience, but he is the single best choice in terms of being committed to the right government policies.
Looks like we need a good executive. Nice piece of work.