re: #170 Killgore Trout

True. I think it’s going to be a very long time before we see a Republican Sec of State make a viable run for president. One of the things that always struck me odd about the old Conservative LGF was how much disdain conservatives have for diplomacy in general. They thought the State Dept was some sort of leftist organization with its own agenda.

There was a belief that many career State Dept employees were liberals, who were running amok with their own agenda.

Now I’ve worked for gov’t, and career employees run the gamut of political ideology. However, we weren’t supposed to bring into work with us, and I think it would have been damned hard for a career employee to overrule an agency head.