Dick is great patriot and was the best VP ever. But I don't think he realizes that many of us feel like we don't need someone that has experience running the federal government. We need people that can begin to roll the government back towards it's mandated functions.
At this point the government is so large that nobody can control it.
It literally functions as a league of sovereign agencies manned by faceless bureaucrats who take reams of laws and decisions from courts, committees, czars, and interprets them as they see fit.
They all have their own PR divisions and lawyers to sue, leak information, or generate mountains of biased statistical reports to defend their priorities.
It's Mandarinism gone mad. More Chinese than Chinese...
But your point about needing someone who can confront the humongous fed is on target and that is where a “businessman” is needed and I hope Mitt can be a capitalist in chief instead of a RINO retread from Taxechussets.
After winning and during his first official briefing as president, I hope Mitt Romney will jump up and holler to Holy Heaven in appalled astonishment:
“MY GOD!!! THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON HERE ALL THIS TIME!?!? FIRE TWENTY PERCENT OF THE ADMINISTRATION RIGHT NOW AND BRING ME EVERY DEPARTMENT CHIEF—OH, AND TELL THEM TO BRING A BASKET TO TAKE THEIR HEADS BACK HOME WITH!!!”
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We have a winner. This is a superb post.
Sometimes people like Dick Cheney -- undisputed, undiluted conservatives who still spend their working lives in government -- are sometimes unable to see outside their own world view in terms of how to fix the problems we face.
We don't need a manager, we need a clear-cutting reformer. Mitt Romney is a manager, and arguably a poor one. Sarah Palin would have been a reformer.