Certain people such as Chris Christie and General Flynn are both up for consideration for many different spots within the Trump Administration. Sarah Palin is up for consideration for only one, that being the Dept. of the Interior.
Maybe she is only available for the demands of this particular department. Trump has his reasons for not nominating her for additional spots.
I figure Bannon is at least on the team for when Trump figures he doesn’t need or want Priebus there anymore.
A nice start!
So what are the early bets on who will be the new RNC chair?
drain the swamp
Because Kristol, McConnell and Ryan openly advocated for Preibus, I simply don’t trust him.
I am worried by this pick and fear we have been set back.
Congratulations to Reince! This is what happens to people who get on the Trump Train when they have the chance, and who deliver results.
Ted Cruz probably forfeited a chance to be a Supreme Court justice for being too dumb to do likewise.
not thrilled with these picks.
Bannon proudly boasts that he has turned Breitbart into a platform for the alt-right. (I’m sure Andrew Breitbart is turning over in his grave.) The site himself identifies one of the leading thinkers of the alt-right as Richard Spencer. He recommends Spencer.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/
“The media empire of the modern-day alternative right coalesced around Richard Spencer”
“In 2010, Spencer founded AlternativeRight.com, which would become a center of alt-right thought.
Alongside other nodes like Steve Sailer’s blog, VDARE and American Renaissance, AlternativeRight.com became a gathering point for an eclectic mix of renegades who objected to the established political consensus in some form or another.”
(Isn’t VDARE banned here at FR? With good reason.)
Spencer and his writers are fans of Dugin.
http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2013/12/transitioning-from-modernity-review-of.html
http://alternative-right.blogspot.com/2013/12/transitioning-from-modernity-review-of_30.html
https://www.reddit.com/r/altright/comments/4x3fm2/richard_spencerask_me_anything/
“My name is Richard Spencer. I coined the term “Alternative Right”; I write at RadixJournal.com (and some other places), organize NPI conferences, and edit Washington Summit Publishers and Radix books.”
“Constitutional conservatives can’t stand the alt-right. Conservatives — real conservatives — believe that only a philosophy of limited government, God-given rights and personal responsibility can save the country. And that creed is not bound to race or ethnicity. Broad swaths of the alt-right, by contrast, believe in a creed-free, race-based nationalism, insisting, among other things, that birth on American soil confers superiority. The alt-right sees limited-government constitutionalism as passé; it holds that only nationalist populism on the basis of shared tribal identity can save the country. It’s a movement shot through with racism and anti-Semitism.”
“As one of its own, Richard Spencer, explained: ‘Breitbart has elective affinities with the alt-right, and the alt-right has clearly influenced Breitbart. In this way, Breitbart has acted as a ‘gateway’ to alt-right ideas and writers.’”
(BTW, Bannon is an ex-Goldman Sachs banker.)
Dugin rejects the Enlightenment (the foundation of the Founders’ thinking) and declares “the West” to be the enemy. Spencer writes articles favorable to Dugin, and Bannon favors Spencer.
Now, please note that I do not think this reflects President-elect Trump’s views, although I am a bit disturbed by Donald Jr.’s offhand remark that hsi father believes in “racehorse theory.” but as I noted before (quoting Morton Blackwell, on of the conservative movement’s best strategists), “personnel is policy.”
Bannon will most likely try to bring in as many of his “alt-right” allies as he can, and that will make the new Administration something I don’t think we or Trump intended it to be.
You have to be careful with whom you stand.
This guy didn’t hit the ground running. He’s a supped up drag strip quarter miler with those massive back wheel slicks that produce wheelies.
They raised his back end off the track and dropped it Wednesday morning early, with wheels spinning...
Priebus harnessed recalcitrant Republicans to support Trump, dedicated a lot of RNC resources to his election, and is an effective manager (though not as effective as Kellyanne Conway, IMO.)
And he’s a friend of Ryan’s, so he might be able to help with Congressional relations. (But they already have Pence for that.)
Unfortunately, as Chief of Staff, he’ll probably bring in a lot of Establishemnt Republicans who don’t share — or even see — Trump’s vision, and as Morton Blackwell reminds us, “personnel is policy.”
There are several people on this thread who are raising honest concerns about Priebus. Almost everyone on FR have been critical of him in the past. We have been critical for good reasons.
Yet, Priebus got the RNC position because he helped orchestrate the Repubicanization of Wisconsin. Think about that . . . Wisconsin.
Now the Republican Party leader is Donald Trump and the Republicans hold the House, the Senate, something like 68 of 99 State legislatures and what?, 33 governors???
In this election year Priebus worked hard to pull this off for Trump. He kept it open for Trump before the clinching of the nomination, and once Trump had the nomination Priebus supported him.
Trump had a lot of interaction with Priebus in the last year. I think it is very significant that Priebus was the only person that Trump called to the lecturn to speak at the victory speech.
This is all great but for me, the numero uno appointment I am waiting for is Department of Justice. That is the ultimate position that needs to be filled with a real no-nonsense person who will clean house and lead investigations into the government corruption. I think Rudy is a good man for the job but he might have higher aspirations.
LMAO!LOVE IT...LOOKS LIKE A WH PRESS RELEASE AND HAS THE PREZ ELECT LOGO, RUBBING IT IN OBAMAS FACE!
Ouch that is going to leave a mark! LMAO!!!
Trilled about Bannon but I have reservations about RP. I don’t fully trust RP but we’ll see how this plays out.
YESSSS!!!!!!
So we need a new RNC chairman, right?
PERFECT
I am thrilled with DJT. We are blessed! Onward!