Posted on 06/22/2008 7:31:20 AM PDT by Josh Painter
Pure speculation time again! Here's my vision of a possible McCain Administration cabinet and some other key posts. Here we go:
Agriculture - Marilyn Musgrave, Congresswoman (R-CO) Representing Colorado's 4th district, Musgrave is a staunch conservative, strong on domestic drilling and a member of the House Agriculture Committee.
Commerce - Mitt Romney, former Governor (R-MA) Everyone knows that Mitt knows commerce.
Defense - Sam Nunn, former Senator (D-GA) Nunn has more defense creds than anyone on the planet. He served nearly 25 years in the Senate and was chairman of the Committe on Armed Services. Many say he retired because he felt out of place in a Democrat Party which had moved too far left. A veteran, he served a regular tour in the Coast Guard plus 6 years in the reserves.
Education - Dr. Vrginia Foxx, Congresswoman (R-NC) She has an Ed.D. degree in education and is serving her second term in the US House representing the 5th District of North Carolina. One of just 38 Republicans to score a 100 percent approval rating from the American Conservative Union.
Energy - George Allen, former Senator (R-VA) Allen is a strong conservative who served Virginia in the state legislature, as Governor and in both bodies of the U.S. Congress. A member of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and its Energy Subcommittee while a Senator, he's all for domestic drilling, and that includes ANWR.
HHS - Mike Huckabee, former Governor (R-AR) Health care reform was a major theme of Huckabee's 11-year governorship in Arkansas.
Homeland Security - Tom Tancredo, US Congressman (R-CO) No terrorist will dare try to cross the border, less they get nuked by The Tank.
HUD - Diana Irey, Washington County Commisioner (R-PA) The lady who ran against John Murtha has experience in economic development.
Interior - Barbara Cubin, US congresswoman (R-WY) A 7-term US Rep from Wyoming, she's a conservative who is widely viewed as a legislative expert in the field of energy and minerals. Cubin serves as a Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. She recently introduced a bill that would significantly increase America’s oil refining capacity.
Labor - JC Watts, former US Congressman (R-OK) Just what Labor needs, the entrepreneurial spirit of this four-term former US Rep, youth minister, GOPAC chairman, businessman and quarterback.
State - Joe Lieberman, US Senator (I-CT) Liberal Lieberman is conservative where it counts - in this case, on foreign policy and the war against Islamic facism.
Transportation - Mary Fallin, Congresswoman (R-OK) Representing the 5th District of Oklahoma, conservative Fallin serves on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Treasury - Phil Gramm, former US Senator (R- TX) Conservative Gramm was an economic professor for 12 years at Texas A&M. During his years in the Senate, he served on both the banking and budget committees.
Veterans Affairs - Duncan Hunter, former US Congressman (R-CA) The former US Army Ranger and longtime Rep from the San Diego area was the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee. Hunter probably understands the needs of our military verterans better than anyone else around.
Attorney General - Deborah Wong Yang, former US Attorney, (R-CA) Yang is a former California State Judge and led the US Attorney's office for the Central District of California, the largest such office outside of Washington DC.
Vice President - Sarah Palin, Governor (R-AK) I was an early advocate of Gov. Palin for VP, but my enthusiasm for her cooled after she raised taxes on the oil producers who operate in Alaska. I just don't like to see taxes raised for any reason, even supposedly good ones. From what I'm able to gather, the hike she pushed through was both modest and needed, so I'm willing to let it go. Besides, John McCain needs her badly. As a woman, she may be able to help him steal some Hillary supporters from Obama. In politics she's a rock star with just the kind of pizazz that McCain lacks. She's the most popular US governor, and her appeal has a wide range. It won't hurt with conservatives that she's a spending hawk, a lifetime NRA member, strongly pro-life and a supporter of drilling in ANWR. Add her beauty pageant good looks, an attractive family and you have a winner.
EPA - Marsha Blackburn, US Congresswoman, (R-TN) Blackburn is a fiscal and social conservative who represents the 7th District of Tennessee. When she was a Stater Senator, she led the successful effort to prevent the passage of a state income tax. As a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, she should be well qualified to run EPA.
FEMA - Russell Honore, former Lt. General, U.S. Army Honore is a no-nonsense, "git-R-done" guy who won praise from all quarters for his leadership of the recovery effort in the wake of Katrina. His list of Army service medals is as long as your arm. Just the man to restore cred and respect to the troubled FEMA.
OMB - John Kasich, former US Congressman (R-PA) Reelected to the House 8 times, Kasich is a fiscal conservative who sat on the House Budget Committee and as charman of the congressional committee on welfare reform. He is a weekend television show host for FOX News Channel.
Drug Czar - Rick Santorum, former US Senator (R-PA) Known for being tough on immigration, Santorum would also be tough on illegal drug dealers.
Press Sec'y - Megyn Kelly, attorney and television anchor Not just another pretty face, Kelly has a BA in political science from Syracuse and a law degree from Albany Law School, where she was editor of the Law Review. She was also a reporter for the ABC News television affiliate in Washington, DC.
Trade Representative - Michael Steele, former Lt. Governor (R-MD) Steele earned a bachelor's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins and a law degree from Georgetown. He has worked in both the Tokyo and London offices of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, as well as its office in the nation's capitol.
UN Ambassador - Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor (R-NY) Rudy would do a great job of making the US case at the UN. He's tough on Islamic jihadism, but he's a likable fellow who should be admired and respected by the world's diplomats.
Surgeon General - Bill Frist, former Senate Majority Leader (R-TN) Dr. Frist is licensed as a physician and is board certified in both general surgery and thoracic surgery. He has performed over 150 heart transplants and lung transplants,and he founded the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. His political and medical experience qualify him to be an outstanding Surgeon General.
Senior Advisors - Fred Thompson, Steve Forbes, John Bolton, Ted Olson Heavy hitters all.
- JP
Thanks for the list, I’ll have to check and see if they are conservatives.
No, I am not sarcastic. I started posting here because I saw how many people think the same way as me. Even JimRob: Never vote for a liberal means never never never vote for a liberal.
I am responsible for sticking to my principles, which means never vote for liberal. I am not responsible for what happens to the country. That is not my problem. You will see many people who feel the same way.
On free trade, I’d say he’s conservative - he supports free trade.
Legalization of drugs, more of the social conservative (which I am more like you - it should be treated more like alcohol).
Now, you’ll find a lot of self-described conservatives here and elsewhere claiming that free trade is wrong, and is not a conservative value. And likewise, you’ll find a good chunk opposed to any legalization - even with regulation - of drugs.
I just wanted to point out that conservatism is quite a broad tent, and that no one would be ideologically “pure” in terms of conservatism if judged by others. So I take the stance that you look at a person’s stance in multiple areas, and if they tend mainly towards the conservative (or what I would consider conservative) stance, then in general the person is conservative.
If the scale of conservatism ran from 0 to 100, and we use Ronald Reagan as a “100” and Karl Marx as a 0, we’d find McCain probably in the 75-85 range, and Obama in the 2-5 range. Big difference in approaches!
A lot of people get paid to write a lot of things. That doesn’t mean it was money well spent or that they are ideas worth reading. But, I’m glad it puts a dollar in your pocket and helps the economy along. All the best
We call all say who we want in his cabinet. So what. Wouldn’t it be better to write McCain directly and tell him who we think would be good and why? How about FR agreeing on an ALL STAR conservative lineup and posting that?
The operative words are "self-described".
I just wanted to point out that conservatism is quite a broad tent, and that no one would be ideologically “pure” in terms of conservatism if judged by others.
That's true. Not all conservatives see things the same way.
But I would hazard a guess that ALL conservatives -- covering a broad array of petty differences -- would see McCain-Feingold as an infringement on free speech.
Hence, it would not be accurate to label McCain as A Conservative. Instead, he is a politician who holds some conservative views. We think. Or we hope...
We all know this is exactly what we will get! The conservative republicans are going to be losers for decades to come unless there is a drastic change!
We will not have a chance to vote under Muslim rule.
Dude, I’m with you. I was apologizing for my first reply to you.
Yummmm, eye candy :-)
ICE - Juan Hernandez
Agriculture - Tom Harkin
Defense - Wes Clark
HHS - John Edwards
HUD - Shelia Jackson Lee
Interior - Al Gore
Peace - Dennis Kucinich
State - Joe Biden
Treasury - Chuck Hagel
Veterans Affairs - John Murtha
Attorney General - Artur Davis
Vice President - Hillary Clinton
Nat’l Security Advisor - Susan Rice
UN Ambassador - Bill Clinton
Nice job. Except it's sickening! Truly, I do think these are exactly the types of people who would be appointed in an Obambi administration. Al Gore is likely to be in there somewhere, too, if he's not VP. Murtha at any position is a nightmare---well, actually just one of these individuals, much less a whole cadre of them with a Rat Congress could do permanent damage to the nation.
The more I study your list, the more I see how likely and awful something like this is if Obambi is not stopped.
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