A sampler of what you'd get with a President Romney
The Romney Package
By BILL KELLER, NYT
BRACE yourself for weeks of chatter about Mitt Romney’s running mate. Vice presidents matter, as we have been spookily reminded by the recent re-emergence of Dick Cheney on our TV screens. And Paul Ryan matters more than most.
But these days you don’t just elect a ticket of two; you elect a whole package. Presidents come with a cast of advisers, think tanks, lobbyists, legislators, donors and watchdogs. Some in the entourage end up in key jobs; others operate as a kind of shadow cabinet, vetting choices and enforcing doctrine.
This is especially true of Republicans, who have spent decades building a disciplined conservative infrastructure that recruits talent, culls dissenters and lays down the law. Compared with Democrats, who are scattered left and center, a Republican administration is more than ever a conservative turnkey project.
As governor of Massachusetts, Romney gathered a team of technocrats, centrist Republicans, even some Democrats. “He sought competence, experience and creativity and gave less weight to politics or ideology,” recalled Scott Helman, a veteran Romney-watcher for The Boston Globe. “But that was then,” he added. Yes, that was a different time, a different place, a different Romney.
(More here.)
BRACE yourself for weeks of chatter about Mitt Romney’s running mate. Vice presidents matter, as we have been spookily reminded by the recent re-emergence of Dick Cheney on our TV screens. And Paul Ryan matters more than most.
But these days you don’t just elect a ticket of two; you elect a whole package. Presidents come with a cast of advisers, think tanks, lobbyists, legislators, donors and watchdogs. Some in the entourage end up in key jobs; others operate as a kind of shadow cabinet, vetting choices and enforcing doctrine.
This is especially true of Republicans, who have spent decades building a disciplined conservative infrastructure that recruits talent, culls dissenters and lays down the law. Compared with Democrats, who are scattered left and center, a Republican administration is more than ever a conservative turnkey project.
As governor of Massachusetts, Romney gathered a team of technocrats, centrist Republicans, even some Democrats. “He sought competence, experience and creativity and gave less weight to politics or ideology,” recalled Scott Helman, a veteran Romney-watcher for The Boston Globe. “But that was then,” he added. Yes, that was a different time, a different place, a different Romney.
(More here.)
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