No way. Have you any idea of the problems getting someone decent confirmed? Rumsfeld stays.
Why not do what Clinton did when he appointed former Sen. Cohen to the job? And I have a good name for Sec. Def. that the Dims will have to approve: Former Ga. Sen. Sam Nunn.
Rummy, a failed Ford holdover, is clearly out of his league and possibly the most hated Sec. Def. since McNamara. I should know, too, because I've spoken to a lot of folks who work there.
Actually not. Bush would have to put up someone with a plan to win. I don't agree that the Congress and Senate went demo because people want to lose. They voted, in large part, because things have not improved the way they expected things to. Short sighted and misinformed? Yes. But, the message of "we will be greeted as liberators" seems to have worked out otherwise.
Giuliani?