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Commerce Secretary is one of the weakest cabinet posts, and that agency is a joke to begin with. I would have him as Secretary of the Treasury, and I would take John Bolton as either Secretary of State or Director of National Intelligence. And I would buck up the career of Allen West to Secretary of Defense. That is how I would have it.

Got no argument with those posts. Just thought that the idea of the Commerce Department would be well run by Cain. He certainly could do Treasury. John Bolton as SOS or DNI would also be excellent. And I think Allen West would make a magnificent SoD.

I was mostly thinking of who could be assigned to Secretarial posts whose first priority would be to dismantle the department, leaving only marginal people in place.

We get so caught up in who is going to be the Big Kanhunah (president), that we often forget the "administration" that the president can empower. But, of course, we must get him/her in place.

We must stop thinking of Cabinet Secretaries as place-keepers and instead, think of them as agents of change - for the smaller.