Well, maybe it’s more of a fantasy.  After all, it involves John McCain as President.  No, that doesn’t necessarily make it a nightmare.  Way back in the 1980’s, Saturday Night Live performed a little skit in which Ronald Reagan was portrayed as a driven, involved President leading an exhausted staff through a planning session for new legislation.  An aide interrupts and introduces a child for a photo op.  Reagan stops what he is doing and engages the child as his friendly, carefree, smiling caricature for which he was so widely recognized.  Once the photo-op was concluded and the door was closed, he resumed his near manic state of verbally flogging his staff to wake up and get with it, as he once again began to lead them all in an intricate discussion of the proposed legislation.

The obvious point being what if the real Ronald Reagan was like this fantasy depiction, rather than the laid back hands-off manager.

In my dream, Senator John McCain is elected President on November 4^th and takes office in January 2009.  After a long, legislative career in Washington D.C., kissing butts and making nice with the political class from both parties, he is finally the big Kahuna!  His lifetime ambition is realized, and he is President of the United States of America.

Instead of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, etc., it’s my way or the highway!  In my dream, President McCain unveils a new persona; not the wimpy, let’s get along, nor the liberal, stick-it-in-your-eye anti-conservative, but a REAL conservative, to the right of even Ronald Reagan.

In my dream, President McCain builds the two-layer fence the entire 2,500 mile length of the Mexican-American border, enforces employer sanctions, ends all benefits to illegal aliens, and then asks America:  Now, can we discuss Visa’s?

In my dream, President McCain doesn’t ask Congress for balanced budget, he DEMANDS one, with the Bush tax cuts made permanent, AND a corporate tax cut, AND a capital gains tax cut.

In my dream, President McCain eliminates the departments of Education and Energy. 

In my dream, President McCain tells Saudi Arabia that if they want any ammunition for the various weapon systems that we sold them, or repairs, or vital military protection from Iran, they had better start pumping oil and bring the price back down to $20 a barrel, or they will be out in the cold.  And they better dismantle OPEC and never threaten to embargo the free world again, or we will come collect our equipment by which they harvest their precious oil.  And if we can’t come get it, then we will make damn sure that they won’t be able to use it!

In my dream, once OPEC has been defanged, President McCain not only secures the U.S. southern border, but also secures the Iraqi-Iran and Iraqi-Syrian borders with a clear strike against the installations set up along both borders.

Iraq stabilizes almost immediately, the mullahs are overthrown in Iran, and Al Qaeda surrenders in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

In my dream, President McCain tells Syria to get out of Lebanon, or else!  After the little demonstration at the Iraqi border, Syria complies.

In my dream, President McCain tells Syria to stop supporting Hamas and Hezbollah.

In my dream, President McCain tells the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, and Hezbollah to stop attacking Israel, or we will simply let Israel loose to go medieval on their behinds!

In my dream, President McCain appoints the most conservative justices to the Supreme Court since the 1880’s.  Roe v. Wade is overturned within six months.  Kelo is overturned soon after and property rights are fully restored, neutering the environmental whackos once and for all.

In my dream, President McCain, rescinds Sarbanes-Oxley, CAFE standards, and a host of regulations restraining American businesses.

In my dream, President McCain blocks automatic remittance of legal fees to firms who sue the U.S. Government.  The ACLU declares Bankruptcy the next day.  Afterwards, he passes legislation eliminating punitive damages, thus enacting the most aggressive tort reform ever envisioned.

In my dream, President McCain commissions that the face of Ronald Reagan be carved into the face of Mount Rushmore!