# You are guaranteed to win the next US presidential election. Would you run?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 20, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-guaranteed-to-win-the-next-us-presidential-election-would-you-run/349208 "2006-03-20T22:27:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-guaranteed-to-win-the-next-us-presidential-election-would-you-run/349208/61 "2006-03-25T02:49:42Z")

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I’d do it. I can speak well, I can write well enough to “compose” my own speeches, I have a pretty good sense of right and wrong, but tempered with a little bit of pragmatism, and am not afraid of accountability. My cabinet would be from a wide enough spectrum to avoid merely being an echo chamber, and no “yes men” need apply. I would make my own decisions (that would infuriate the neocons and the extreme far religious right - a plus). My first acts would be to rescind all “signing statements”, and return to the FISA as written. I would then launch full investigations into GITMO and Abu, inviting full UN participation. I would dismantle the “Iraq Desk” in the Pentagon. I would take FEMA out of Homeland Security and make it a separate Cabinet post. I would audit Homeland Security itself, and shut it down - reassigning the people to other more capable agencies such as the CIA and FBI. Finally, I would get the government out of the “God business” and return to the idea that a person’s religion is their own business.

And that’s just the first morning on the job 😃

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-guaranteed-to-win-the-next-us-presidential-election-would-you-run/349208/62 "2006-03-25T09:15:39Z")

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Maybe I could just go for the full-on supervillain approach and arrange to divide the planet up between us, China, and whatever European countries we want in on the deal.

In short, there’ll be no more wars for resources…just one, final, GIANT war of conquest and redistribution. Like in “Man in the High Castle” or “Two Dooms.” Or “Firefly.”

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-are-guaranteed-to-win-the-next-us-presidential-election-would-you-run/349208/63 "2006-03-27T15:22:44Z")

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**SteveG1** , I like the cut of your jib. Obviously you got a peek at the first day’s agenda from my White House transition team!

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