Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter
Our GOP nominee, whoever he is – and it will be a “he” because the GOP base is never ever going to nominate that donor diva from 2004, Nikki Haley – must pick and publicize his administration immediately upon clinching the brass ring. My pal and fellow Salem pundit Hugh Hewitt recently made this same suggestion, citing the need to show that the next administration would be staffed with competent pros who would return America to prosperity and security while creating a corps of surrogates to raise dough and campaign in the event that the left’s fascist lawfare succeeds in trapping our frontrunner in courtrooms fighting bogus charges leveled by corrupt hacks.
Hugh offered his own “fantasy draft for Trump’s second term” and asked me if I had some thoughts. Well, here they are – and they differ from his in some major ways. He is neutral while I am a DeSantis guy, and I still hold out hope that the fine people of Iowa will see it my way, though that seems increasingly unlikely (I hope my infamous inability to make accurate election predictions holds!). This is a Trump-friendly list of the all-stars that should go into government to save America, but the Governor could and should pick the same folks. Here are my criteria:
First, do no harm. None of the administration candidates should be plucked from an existing job where they are either irreplaceable (like Ron DeSantis, though he’s never working for Trump anyway), where they are currently running for office in a competitive race (so no Kari Lake or Dave McCormick, who we all need to back in Arizona and Pennsylvania), or where they are not metaphysically certain to be replaced by another conservative Republican in their present or next potential office (Sorry, we love us some Winsome Sears, but Glenn Youngkin, you need to run for Senate).
Second, they should be easily confirmable, with one exception. They need to be able to pass confirmation in a narrow Senate, whether we retake the majority or blow it as usual. The exception should be one or two “reach” nominees who can be human sacrifices to buy space to get others through.
Third, they need to be on the trolley and willing to fight for the nominee’s program – unless they bring something exceptional to the table. We are not getting clones of Trump or DeSantis, but we need to avoid moles and rats. However, aggressive management and a willingness to fire non-hackers can offset the risk. Sometimes, we will not get the purity we want, but we can get something else that we need. After all, adult life is about choices, and sometimes the options are not optimal.
Fourth, they should be superstars. Get names of people now, whether from their success in the prior Trump administration or in other fields. Remember, they have to be able to administer a bureaucracy – just agreeing with us on policy is meaningless if the bureaucrats neuter them with institutional antics.
Here we go with a non-comprehensive list to fill some key positions, starting with minor potentates and going up the ladder. Note that I know some of them personally, but I would pick them anyway (as you will see, I suggest some people who I find personally to be very annoying). It’s not about the feels for me or the nominee; it’s about saving our country:
Press Secretary: Morgan Ortagus. She is a naval officer with State Department experience, as well as her own Sirius/XM radio show. She’s a great contrast with that ridiculous KJP and Baghdad John Kirby.
Secretary of Transportation: Vivek Ramaswamy. Sure, he’s the hyper Horshack of American politics, a smart guy with imagination who needs a place to prove he can get results and not just viral moments. He can’t do a lot of harm here – Pete Buttigieg has sure tried – but he could do some meaningful stuff. This is a great way for Vivek to show instead of tell.
Secretary of Education: Ben Sasse. No one has been more forthright in my irritation with Sasse as a senator. Well, I can get over it if he brings what he brought to the University of Florida to the Education Department. He did not mumble about genocide context or tolerate woke nonsense. As an ex-senator, he is readily confirmable.
Director of Central Intelligence: Former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe. He did well under Trump, so let’s get him back.
FBI Director: Mike Pompeo. Chris Wray is so fired on day one. We need a confirmable guy to fix the place since our fantasy of disbanding it is unlikely to happen. The former Secretary of State is an attorney, Army officer, and headed the CIA, so he’s used to dealing with giant bureaucracies. He’s got integrity, something sorely lacking today at J. Edgar’s joint.
Treasury: Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. This was Hugh’s suggestion too and it’s a terrific one. How better to make America great again than by bringing back the guy behind the great economy we had under DJT 1.0? I would also get Larry Kudlow back as a key economic advisor.
Attorney General: Adam Laxalt. He’s a lawyer with a lot of integrity. He was DeSantis’ roommate in the Navy, so RDS is comfortable with him and his selection by Trump would be a hand across the aisle after a bitter primary. He is based – he understands the issues, and as a Nevadan, instead of a swamp dweller, he can avoid the temptation to go along/get along. Put Trump-backing attorney/pundit Mike Davis in as his deputy/hatchet man, and watch the fun begin!
Secretary of Defense: Tom Cotton. He’s a Senate leader on defense and a vet. He’s young and energetic and a potential president, so he needs a test run outside of the Senate. As a senator, he will fly through confirmation. Crucially, Arkansas will not replace him with some pinko. The DoD needs a guy who will, you know, not disappear for days at a time like that mediocre hack currently pretending to lead it. Cotton is no neocon. He’s savvy and understands from the field level how our military is broken and how we can bring it back.
Secretary of State: Ric Grenell. Ric was the ambassador to Germany and put those krauts in their place. He accepts no guff. None. And he’s a patriot with the ability to tame the Foggy Bottom boys. He will be tough to confirm, but he’s worth that fight.
Chief of Staff: Robert O’Brien, the former National Security Advisor. Robert is super-smart, very savvy, and respected by everyone. He would keep the chaos to a low simmer both in the campaign and after. The next White House needs discipline and focus, and this guy ran a giant law firm before returning to government service under Trump. Wrangling lawyers is fantastic experience for anyone wanting to wrangle politicians.
Vice President: Hey, I’m not happy about it, but getting elected is the key step, and, as I have written here, no one would help Trump more than that website-hyping harpy Nikki Haley. Unleash her to wring the bucks from her donor buddies and the votes from the dissatisfied suburban wine women and their submissive husbands who used to vote GOP until Trump’s mean tweets made them sad.
And a special bonus if it is President Trump…
Co-Ambassadors to Togo: Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. This small West African nation demands focus and attention, so why not send these two there to undertake this vital mission? Sure, it will mean their ability to influence policy is totally undermined and eliminated, but that’s a sacrifice we must bear.
There you go – this is the list. Name them and get them on the road. We have to win in 2024, so let’s get all hands on deck and get it done!
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A classic recommendation from a typical republican. Let’s be ineffective and useless like republicans always are. Or S.S.D.D. same shit different day. We can cheer republicans on our way to the camps. Kurt can lead the way and cheer for Death with a Republican theme.
You do have to admire how effective ‘the creeps’ are at keeping the common folk endlessly running around in circles trying to ‘vote’ the criminals away in this uni-party system.
My pal and fellow Salem pundit Hugh Hewitt recently made this same suggestion, citing the need to show that the next administration would be staffed with competent pros who would return America to prosperity and security
I went from disliking this guy for his intentional disingenuous writing to finding him insanely funny. Once I realized he wasn’t a smart guy, but kind of stupid, every article reads like scribbled letters found in the vents of a lunatic asylum.
Expecting “competent pros” in a political administration to return America to prosperity and security is like expecting passengers in coach to make the plane fly.
What a maroon.
Every article of mine reads like scribbled letters found in the vents of a lunatic asylum, but I repeat myself.
I found it to be extremely predictable and “conventional “, Nuky Haley , Pompeo, Cotton !?!? Dude doesnt get “it” really because he is part of” it” whether he knows” it” or not. Maybe we should have a look at those scribbled letters in the vents at that asylum ? We might actually fare quite a bit better with whatever is written on them .
The thing is an out of control leviathan of perverse incentives , with unlimited funding and near zero accountability .
Gonna LAUGH like a kamala EVERY TIME 👁️ see your name.
FBI Director: Mike Pompeo. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣….GLARING
Make America Greedy Again?
Make America Giggle Again?
Make America Grownup Again?
Make America Green Again?
Make America Grovel Again?
Make America Gag Again?
Make America Gamble Again?
…BEEN :
Make America Go Away.
Personally, & For the Umpteenth time.
1st time 👁️ EVER voted AGAINST someone.
old what’s her name.
Can NOT even remember, before/after the
Crowning CeremonyInauguration ?Paraphrasing donnie drumpf: “WHAT GOOD PEOPLE the clintons’ are”
THEN? Every position filled with a :
AND…Looks like they are gonna anoint
himIT. Again.——————
Speaking of the Fetid anaerobic Miasmatic swamp? (Redundant butchery. No likey, don’t read!)
ALL of the cesspool?
Silence!
ALL in on it. Together.
Are they ALL worried about ‘Running ?
Should be.
Poor Kurt has retreated from reality into his own little political fantasy land. I suppose that’s normal. It happens to damned near everyone every election cycle. Niggers always vote for free shit. Women treat voting like a game of “Date, fuck, or kill”. And white men? Too busy with foozball,Bud Light and lesbian porn.
We ARE the walking dead.
You forgot that great Philosopher Taylor Swift!!!
Lol.
Where do you get this ‘We’ shit, scrotumizer?
From ChatGPT.
Hurry up and pick the people who will make all the biggest donors to my campaign the most happy.
How hard is that?
I’d be like Gulliani as AG , RFK Jr as director of CIA ,Colonel Macgreggor as sec def and so on . yeah good luck with those senate confirmations . Oh wait a minute ? Just making them ” acting ” holders of those posts and then throw up even more improbable picks for vetting like . Huh ?Whatever happened to Sheriff Arpiao anyhoot ? , He could take Mayorka’s job .
Arpaio is 91. And Giuliani is right behind him. I don’t have any suggestions. Anyone with any experience is part of the problem. Probably Nugent for HHS.
Ted Nugent for health secretary? How ’bout Homeland Security, with Kyle Rittenhouse as Undersecretary?
“Arpaio is 91. And Giuliani is right behind him.”
I would rather have white men picked at random from a phone book than any of those men in positions of authority.
Don’t rule out the Haley creature, it has more support on both sides than anyone in that pic. Christie already left for the buffet, Vivek’s getting sidelined and no one really cares about DeSantis. And where are all the other pretenders? Usually there are about a dozen at this point, but they’ve already effectively whittled the field down to (essentially) one.
What happens when the GOP picks Haley? Does Trump run as an independent? And how can RFK still cause issues for both sides?
It’s going to be an interesting year.
If the GOP picked that evil cunt there’d be an open revolt, the entire base would stay home and Biden (or whoever) would win 65-30. It’d be easier to just let Trump be the nominee and then work against him like they did the last couple times.
Holy fuck! Another VOTE HARDER write up Lol. I swear TBP is becoming zerohedge day by day. Still propping up the election and left/right illusion.
Nikki Haley as Vice-President paints a target on Trump’s back. Neocons would stop at nothing to make her President so they could go to war with everyone. The Vice-President must be someone who is capable of leading the country effectively.
Or someone NOBODY wants to be president, so they will not usher you out the door. Kamala is the greatest insurance policy for not being 26th Amendment removed Joey could have ever gotten.
I get that voting is largely irrelevant, but it’s ok to think about these picks just for shits and giggles. Haley for VP? Trump would be rubbed out immediately. Picking Pompey for anything would be insane, especially FBI. He’d probably assassinate Trump himself. Tom Cotton for Sec Def? Why not just give Lindsay Graham the nuclear football? Everything Hugh Hewitt thinks is wrong – especially that having a big Navy full of targets for missiles is how we can rule the world. That guy is lost in WWII. Not to mention the physiognomy part.
Sorry Kurt, your exercise is for naught. The Demon-Crats will cheat President Trump out of a second Term just like they did in 2020 because the feckless, lazy, brain -dead Establishment Republicans have done next to nothing to eliminate the massive Voter Fraud that the Demon-Crats perpetrated in 2020.
“the feckless, lazy, brain -dead Establishment Republicans have done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to eliminate the massive Voter Fraud that the Demon-Crats perpetrated in 2020.”
FIFY
Yo Kurt,
Lost me at Pompeo, and by the time we reach the end of the list, it’s an easy 5 that are pure RINO DS genocidal fucking psychopaths.
No secrets now, ace…
My money is on no election this fall.
Can you imagine a more insufferable task than listening to this author think out loud?!
Kurt should just come out & say he wants to see Trump’s head explode like JFK’s with his wishful thinking of Haley for VP. And Pompeo’s not far behind on the list of Trump backstabbers.
Then again, Biden “chose” Harris as VP even after she called him racist during their debates in 2020.
Why? The Democrats will still be counting the votes in 2024.