Lunar
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« on: January 15, 2009, 01:16:59 AM » |
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I'd be chill with Romney as Commerce Secretary, I think he'd be great at it (despite the fact that he's a political chameleon) mostly due to the fact that Commerce Secretary involves almost no partisanship. I mean, how partisan can he be overseeing like our weather management and the census?
But the position has to go to a Hispanic. The mayors of Miami (Diaz) and Albuquerque (Sanchez) are the frontrunners IMO. But since the position means nothing, a Hispanic woman would yield Obama the most political capital due to recent criticism.
Replacing Richardson with a non-Hispanic would be a serious miss-step. And if Romney were to be the Commerce Secretary, such a decision would have been best to do early, not days before he swears on the bible, to divert the left blogosphere outcry over the move.
But I actually don't think Romney for Commerce would be a bad move for either Romney or Obama on-face. Romney gets to be relevant for another eight years and Obama gets to divert a major kick-dirt-in-the-eyes-style opponent and a more fractured primary in 2012, hopefully resulting in a primary opponent of Palin or some such demographic failure
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