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Gingrich: Would Romney Be Trump’s Secretary of State or His Own Secretary of State?
Breitbart ^ | 11/23/16 | Jeff Poor

Posted on 11/23/2016 9:26:28 AM PST by bobk333

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To: Starboard

Rudy has defended Trump from the beginning and what must Donald Trump be thinking?

Mike Huckabee says he ‘was offered a cabinet slot – I didn’t think it was a great fit for me’ as he warns that making Mitt Romney secretary of state would be ‘a real insult’ to Trump voters

Two-time presidential contender Mike Huckabee blasted Mitt Romney, saying Trump risks a huge backlash if he makes him secretary of state
‘It would be a real insult to all those Donald Trump voters who worked really hard’ for the anti-establishment president-elect,’ he said
Huckabee, a former governor and Fox News Channel host, recalled that Romney was disloyal and slammed Trump personally in a March speech
Said Trump offered him a cabinet slot, which e turned down, but wouldn’t say which position it was

By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com

Published: 08:13 EST, 23 November 2016 | Updated: 10:13 EST, 23 November 2016

Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that he turned down President-elect Donald Trump’s request that he take a place in his cabinet, and blasted the idea of making Mitt Romney the next secretary of state.

‘I’m not talking about what it was,’ the former Arkansas governor said on the ‘Fox & Friends’ program. ‘I was offered a cabinet slot. I didn’t think it was a great fit for me.’

Huckabee, a 61-year-old Baptist minister and former Fox News Channel host, also clobbered Romney in no uncertain terms.

‘It’s not about that I don’t care for Mitt personally. But I’m still very unhappy that Mitt did everything he could to derail Donald Trump,’ he said, painting the 2012 Republican presidential nominee as disloyal and wildly unpopular among Trump’s electoral base.

‘He didn’t just go after him from the standpoint of “I disagree with his policy on immigration, I disagree with his policy on taxes.” He attacked him on a personal level about his character, integrity, his honor.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3964434/Mike-Huckabee-says-offered-cabinet-slot-didn-t-think-great-fit-warns-making-Mitt-Romney-secretary-state-real-insult-Trump-voters.html#ixzz4Qr7DvKH9
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21 posted on 11/23/2016 9:52:17 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: bobk333

With all the trouble Romney caused, I would have a stuff time trusting him. But I am not the President Elect. The world globalist may be more comfortable with Romney.


22 posted on 11/23/2016 9:56:10 AM PST by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: bobk333

Romney would be a terrible choice for Secretary of State.


23 posted on 11/23/2016 9:58:48 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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To: bobk333

Romney won’t make America great again, he will only make Romney great again. Choke artist.


24 posted on 11/23/2016 10:01:43 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey
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To: spokeshave
In an effort to be nice in advance of Christmas (Santa, I'm trying over here!) I will say in Obama's defense that the etiquette rules of dealing with royalty are not known to Americans, who neither have royalty nor routinely observe ceremonies in which royalty participate. He should have had a protocol person lay this all out for him in detail.

Now to be not so nice. He probably did have such a protocol person and flubbed it anyway.

25 posted on 11/23/2016 10:09:01 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Romney will never truly be on Trump’s team.

He has his own agenda and only plays for Team Romney. Romney has on more than one occasion failed to stand tall when it mattered. You cannot count on or trust people like that.

Trump would soon regret this decision. I promise you that.


26 posted on 11/23/2016 10:14:24 AM PST by Starboard
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To: KeyLargo

Huckabee is right. He’s a good judge of character.


27 posted on 11/23/2016 10:17:03 AM PST by Starboard
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To: JediJones

It doesn’t matter. The Queen is a joke. It’s 2016 and these people do nothing and swallow the tax payers money. Screw them.


28 posted on 11/23/2016 10:29:26 AM PST by MakeAmericaGr8tAgain
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To: Fhios

Don’t you remember the CD he gave to the queen of his speeches when they visited Buckingham?


29 posted on 11/23/2016 10:34:10 AM PST by mazda77
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To: bobk333

No matter what the problem is, Rudy Giuliani is not and never will be the solution.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1794584/posts

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821435/posts


30 posted on 11/23/2016 10:35:51 AM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: bobk333

Letting Romney on the team is a BIG mistake.


31 posted on 11/23/2016 10:36:14 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: bobk333

The biggest problem is quite specific: the State Dept is a hotbed of anti-American snakes from top to bottom. They take our tax dollars and hand it out to muslim fanatics and various other thugs and often hire muslims as auditors. All the USAID contractors and auditors need to be fired but that will be very difficult to pull off.


32 posted on 11/23/2016 10:48:41 AM PST by palmer (turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure)
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To: bobk333

While I don’t have any way of knowing what’s going on inside the transition, I do know what I would be advising right now, if I was there:

1) Trump hasn’t won anything other than a slate of 290/306 Electors, who are virtually all ESTABLISHMENT Republicans, and probably over 90% (if not 100%) supported someone else in the Primaries.

2) Almost for sure, some of these Electors, maybe many of them, would LOVE to figure out a way to not vote for Trump and to replace him with Jeb, Rubio, or Clinton, or whoever.

3) Trump doesn’t get their votes for another 25 days, and I would be telling him to not give them any reason to turn on him...and so far he’s been listening.

4) The House votes after the Electors and needs to ratify (or reject) the choice of the electors.

5) Trump doesn’t get sworn in for nearly 2 months. This means that Romney is NOT Secretary of State until then. Trump can replace him in a heartbeat if he runs off with his own agenda.

6) But Romney (and many of his other choices and statements) makes it next to impossible for the Electors, or the House, or even Obama to stop him from taking office.

7) After Jan 21, with Obama safely gone, Trump doesn’t have to answer to the Establishment or anyone else...he can fire half his cabinet that day, if he chooses.

8) Romney will learn that the easy way or the hard way.


33 posted on 11/23/2016 12:23:50 PM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: BobL

...and to add one more point, to my above points:

9) The Dems are even now looking into contesting Trump’s election, based on what those leftist professors claimed to have uncovered. Having a unified party supporting that fight is certainly better than having it torn up in infighting.


34 posted on 11/23/2016 12:59:49 PM PST by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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