Things would have been quite different.
I’m not sure about this one, though:
Palin’s IRS would not ask groups seeking 501(c)4 status about their prayer life.
These are all careerists, and have been with the agency through Republican and Democrat governments. I can easily imagine that they’d try to do it. But in a Palin presidency, when she heard complaints, she wouldn’t ignore them, and would at least try to rein in the bureaucracy, instead of encouraging it, as Obama has. And of course, in a Palin presidency, there would have have been a need for the Tea Party to arise.
A president should fire the heads of every agency and replace them all with hatchet men/women. These would trim the fat (those ideologically tied to big government.) Hatchet men aren’t interested in running organizations so…
Meanwhile she would look for permanent heads to run these leaner organizations (if they existed at all after the cuts.)
One of the ugly facts of the current system created and staffed by the Democrats, is that the elected and appointed officials cannot fire members of the Civil Service. Most of the complaints about RINOs comes from people not understanding how little control we actually have over our “civil servants”.
“Palin would not have allowed her ambassador to Libya to be slaughtered” This is the only one I quibble with. Four Americans died that day. The ambassador and Sean Smith died from smoke inhalation. They weren’t slaughtered. The delays in recovering their bodies arose from the difficulty of finding them in the smoke filled building. The other two Americans, who were CIA contractors, were killed by two mortar hits on the roof of the CIA compound whilst they provided covering fire for the evacuees. One of the two contractors was part of a rapid response team flown in from Tripoli that morning.
So Chelsea thinks it is time for a woman in the White House. Republicans thought so too in 2008. Expect that to be forgotten in 2016 even if Palin runs.
Except that it wouldn’t be a Palin presidency, it’d be a McCain presidency. Mama Grizzly would’ve been out racking up the frequent flyer miles attending foreign funerals, her job securing the election for the GOP’s designated my turn old guy done.
And the media would be there lapdogging the administration just like now, right? The actual term I had in mind implies 1/2 hr hotel rentals in unsavory parts of town, but lapdogging gets by the filters.
It could have been a Palin presidency. My hope was that McCain would die of joy upon being sworn in.
It says a lot about the RNC’s handpicked candidate for 2008 that every voter I’ve talked to was hoping he’d vaporlock on his way home from the inauguration so his VP could take over.