Posted on 11/12/2016 4:20:06 PM PST by MagillaX
Looks like Ambassador Bolton is trying to promote himself for a position in Trump's cabinet. He is a Bush guy and one of the so called geniuses that got it wrong No way should he be in consideration
I like Bolton.
Bolton refused to vote for Trump, so why the Hell should Trump want a disloyal fu** working for him??
Please provide any information you can on Bolton’s close connection to the CFR.
Thank you.
Bolten would be fine, just let Trump figure it out, I trust Trump. But also, others are better than Bolten since he got a lot of things wrong. Maybe he has gotten wiser in his ways and gets along well with Trump, the fact that Bolten is unafraid of the MSM is a plus. The guy is gutsy and so I like him. I know Trump will make the right choices and Trump is very much a “team work” style.
I love Gungrich, this guy can move and shake Congress and he also has the leadership quality I admire. I am all gunhoo for Gingrich. But again, I will just leave it to Trump and his leadership team to make the choices. I have my favorites, one is Rudy. But it isn’t me who picks, and I may not know what Trump knows.
I then Carson should get something just for loyalty.
Actually, personally I want to see a team that has leaders who are loyal to Trump. Loyalty is what I see as the most important criteria in addition to placement by competence and able to deal. Loyalty.
What a failed eight years that was. He laid the groundwork for 0bama to take over, and here we are.
Yes, that is all true; Bush laid out the red carpet for 0bama and his agenda.
But furthermore, Bolton worked FOR the same Globalist-Firster, George W. Bush at the UN where admittedly his moxie was refreshing AT THE TIME. However, Bolton wound up with an ulterior motive as a Globalist-Firster member of the CFR.
His loyalty and judgement is questionable at best (please see Post #39)
BS, Bolton and Newt would make a great foreign policy team. Bolton is a fantastic diplomat and Newt is a great historian and a brilliant man. These guys continued to support Trump through thick and thin. Also the fact that they chose Trump over any of the GOPe candidates that were available kind of proves that they’ve thrown in with us and not the establishment RINO’s, and I doubt the Bush’s send either of them Christmas cards anymore.
That’s the way I see it.
LOL..... that said, if I see the term “neo-con” used incorrectly on this forum one more time; I may have to ban myself until, either, this is all settled.... or... until some folks buy a dictionary. I, like, don’t trust myself.
Those comments were made in support of the Clinton-Obama illegal war on Syria. In it, Bolton adopts the exact same idee fixe as Clinton - that removing Assad is the priority, and sure maybe we’ll get to ISIS while we’re at it.
But America soundly rejected war against Assad - and anyone who wishes to represent us needs to respect the will of the people in this. Americans do not want war against Assad. Period. There is no benefit to it and it harms national security to try.
I believe he worked for Jesse Helms and Ronald Regan and was a big part of the Scalia nomination process. I think he would be a good choice for Trump.
Bolton is as neocon as neocons get.
If that triggers you, you didn’t belong here in the first place.
This was my response to #39
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3493425/posts?page=59#59
If you have any information about him being a strong CFR man where he pushed their objectives over the nation’s, I’d like to read about it.
Bolton is just fine. He stood up to the UN time and again. Will not back down from America’s enemies. He’s exactly what we need. Secretaries don’t take us into wars.
Early public policy career
("Bolton was formerly involved with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Federalist Society, National Policy Forum, National Advisory Board, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, New Atlantic Initiative, Project on Transitional Democracies.")
Please note that Bolton was also a member of the American Enterprise Institute, a globalist think-tank whose several prominent members signed off on a letter begging Bill Clinton to take out Saddam...in 1999.
John Bolton has TWO strikes against him.
ditto -
Back in August Bolton said that he was voting for Trump.
Yes, Bolton was great at the U.N.
Just because he served under Bush does not disqualify him.
Gingrich is brilliant. He engineered the first Republican revolution in 1994, but was blindsided by the media reaction, which was to throw aside all pretense of objectivity and attack republicans unceasingly, full out, willing to trade credibility for political power.
With the election of President Trump, their credibility ran out.
I’m not sure Bolton has any conservative bones in him at all, but if I generously assume that he does then definition #2 (minus the whitewash that calls the will to Empire by the euphemism “assertive promotion of democracy and United States national interest in international affairs including through military means”) is as accurate a description of him as it gets.
Bolton is a neocon, and if you disagree then it is you who are using a different definition than everyone else.
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