Roger Hedgecock, writing at Human Events, makes the case that a state-level chief executive has the best chance of steering the federal government back to a sustainable course:
Senators just don’t make good Presidents. They don’t run anything and their job is to bloviate endlessly on both sides of any discussion and pass laws that don’t apply to them. Witness Barack Obama.
And does anyone Left or Right think John Kerry or Joe Biden or John McCain would have done any better? I don’t. …
… [W]ith Ronald Reagan (a two-term California governor when that state was still “Golden”) as my model, I am looking for a fighting governor to run for President committed to restoring a constitutional republic, a free market economy, and a new era of individual responsibility.
Not for any abstract, philosophical reason. I believe that only this return to first principles, only this recommitment to individual liberty, will bring the economy back.
The wonderful genius of the American political system is that the Founders’ seemed to have anticipated our needs. Just when confidence in the federal government’s abilities and intentions has been shaken to the core, state governors have been elected to lead in a different direction.
In no particular order of preference, consider these governors and the news they have made: Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, Rick Scott, John Kasich, Scott Walker, Brian Sandoval, Susana Martinez, Rick Perry, Haley Barbour, and Jan Brewer.
I believe that among these folks is the desperately needed next President of the United States.
