Why Not The Best?

Why not the best and the brightest?

America is fast approaching perhaps the most important election crossroads of its 236 year existence.  Will we remain the world's beacon of liberty and the engine of global prosperity or will we sink into the doldrums of apathy and dependence, or even worse, the abyss of oppression and destitution.  It is time to elect real leaders instead of settling for the best of poor choices.  Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul each have excessive baggage that is likely to prove fatal in the general election unless Barack Obama does something really stupid.  It is time for Republicans to reboot and offer candidates with proven ability, integrity and substance to the voters.  Now would be as good a time as any to start replacing the professional politicians who dominate our nation's government.

David Petraeus is an experienced, recognized leader with a long term record of success in the world's most challenging and vitally important arena's.  No one in America has an impressive resume' as he does.  He has shown all Americans that he is an intelligent, hard-working, decisive, strong patriot who is in love with his country, not himself.  Thomas Sowell has been rendering wise, rational, pragmatic opinions on social and economic policies for nearly four decades.  O.K., he is 81 years old, which rather than being a liability means to me he has seen it all.  He would be the perfect choice to be responsible for giving enlightened advice to a chief executive who knows how to get things done.

Neither of these men have displayed the desire to run for the top political offices in the country, which in my opinion is a huge plus factor.  Anyone who really wants the presidency so badly as to run the gauntlet of a political campaign is on a power trip, and probably should be among the last people on earth to have the job.  I think it is time to appeal to General Petraeus and Mr. Sowell to lead the Republican ticket to get America back on track to regain the principles and policies established by our founders that made America great.

Of course neither man might want the job.  Who could blame them?  But there have to be other men and women in America whose experience, qualifications and character would make them much better choices than the ones we have.  We must find them.  With people such as a David Petraeus in the White House and a Thomas Sowell as Vice-President, we would have an excellent chance of restoring our country to its traditional greatness and leave a United States of America to our children and grandchildren that continues a legacy of freedom and economic strength instead of a ruined hulk of once what was.