If you were charged with staffing the best Republican admistration you could imagine ........

[Stinky The Clown]

....... who would be in it?

By "best" I mean best for the country ....... not "best" in the way of the batshit crazy right wing hate machine of today. In other words, an actual competent administration.

Who would you have as president, veep, and in the cabinet?

[sazemisery]

1. No one comes to mind

:evilgrin:

[rosesaylavee]

2. Um. I think that is their problem right now.

They got nobody.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Their Benevolent Bench is nearly EMPTY.....and i wuz being kind

[Burma Jones]

4. Do they have to be living?

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

5. I would need to resurrect the dead to complete this task.

May I violate the laws of nature to do this or am I stuck with the current lot?

[Stinky The Clown]

9. Gotta work with wutcha got

Given where we are, you might even use some of the more 'so called' Democrats ......

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

10. Well I love a challenge... nt

[wilt the stilt]

6. Dick Cheney

for every position.

[wilt the stilt]

11. I forgot

that he would dismiss the congress and the supreme court

[MiniMe]

7. Abraham Lincoln for President

Or Teddy Roosevelt. Those are the 2 best repigs I can think of. Nobody later than 1960.

[SteelPenguin]

8. Tried. Can't do it.

Can't come up with anyone in the party at present that I truly respect. In the past? sure. At present? they've just gone off such a deep end that it's hard to find many rational moderate ones left.

[Warpy]

12. I would leave the posts empty for four years

and let Congress thrash around running the country.

Seriously, given the serious flaws in party dogma and their inexorable march toward aristocracy and dictatorship, I don't think any of them would be in the best interest of this country.

No, not even Lincoln Chaffee. He shares their economic fallacy, that the economy works from the top down.

[lumberjack_jeff]

13. Dan Evans. Getting kind of old, though. n/t

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

14. Okay. I've given it some thought, and here are my picks.

I do think this administration would work, albeit in the same sense that a car made out of Lincoln logs and duct tape would work. Here we go:

Charlie Crist - President (I don't particularly like him, but he has at least a mixed record of conservative and progress-friendly policies. Besides, if he pisses off the hardliners so much, there's probably something okay about him that I just don't see).

Jon Huntsman Jr - Vice President (He is concerned mostly with economic, education (he received his GED, so I trust he understands the importance of education), and energy issues. He has an okay record and has spoken out against the Party of No mentality held by national Republicans.

Robert Gates - Sec. Defense (I'll go with the devil I know for this one).
Mitt Romney - Sec. Treasury (Let's face it. He has a lot of experience with money. However, most of it stems from unconscionable corporate raiding, so I needed to keep him away from Dept. Commerce)

Michael Bloomberg - Sec. Commerce (I'd prefer to keep him away from this, but I'm low on options that I know about)

Arnold Schwarzeneger - Sec State (Okay, hear me out. I don't expect him to be a stellar diplomat. However, the guy does understand how to work cameras and scenes to his advantage thanks to his acting background. I'm hoping this "fantasy administration" would exploit those talents and "strongly recommend" comptent advisors to run things behind the scenes). 

Olympia Snow - Sec Interior (Why not? Besides, I'm running out of ideas.)

Willie Julian Usery, Jr- Sec Labor (One of the rare Republicans who actually used to be involved in union activism. He had a very limited tenure under Ford, so it might be worth giving him a second chance... assuming he lives long enough).

Jim Douglas - Sec Education (Vermont generally has its act together when it comes to public education. He probably wouldn't screw up badly here).

John Albert Knebel - Sec Agriculture (So what if he resigned from Ford's administration for making a racist comment. I can't recall anything terrible happening in that part of our government during the Ford administration.)

Donald Carcieri - Sec Energy (Just another Republican that does not make me vomit upon mentioning his name. I just retch slightly).

John Warner - Sec DHS (He's relatively moderate and has enough experience for the post.)

Rudy Guiliani - Attorney General (At least he was a prosecutor in a prior life. I'm guessing he'd have some idea of what to do).

Whatever the conservative equivalent of Sanjay Gupta is- Surgeon General

Lincoln Chafee - EPA (He's one of the few Republicans I can think of that favors strong environmental regulation and who voted against allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)

Edited for typo and further explanation.

[Stinky The Clown]

20. All in all .... not bad work.

You get extra credit for finding enough still-alive repubicans to fill the cabinet room.

[damntexdem]

15. It would be the early 1860s and we'd be fighting a Civil War.

I'd go with the originals except neither Hamlin nor Johnson as VP.

[sakabatou]

16. I can't think of any Republicans alive

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. The only "sane" Republican that comes to my mind

is Lugar as POTUS or Secretary of State. Beyond him and maybe some of the GOPers already mentioned (i.e. Crist, Chaffee).......:shrug:

[valerief]

18. Zero. Republicans all suck. All of them. nt

[scheming daemons]

19. This exercise is the political equivalent of trying to divide by zero

...it can't be done.