Posted on 11/27/2016 5:48:29 PM PST by Kaslin
The bitch set him up.
My vote for Bolton
Rudy for something in law enforcement related
Absolutely no Petreaus.
Let’s dispense with the celebrity component, and instead select an individual, unknown or otherwise, to best represent the Country.
Col Allen West. I love that man and he loves America.
Whoever the choice, I think the President-elect needs to make it very soon. The situation regarding the Secretary of State is becoming out of hand. Romney would be a huge disappointment to most of us who voted for Trump. Rudy made a mistake by wanting it so much that he publicly campaigned for it. I have no opinion about the other people who have been mentioned.
Why would you say he’d do as he’s told. He is as stubborn as a donkey, has a God complex and is incapable of reality testing.
Agree with G.E. here....Not a fan of the "usual suspects." There has to be some red-blooded, God-fearing men and women who love the country and will work in our best interest, not selfishly.
You are in the minority and for good reason. Mitt Romney is an opportunistic snake. A liar and a turncoat. He signed the pledge and reneged. He lied for 45 minutes on major network TV about the Donald. And, did irreparable damage. Trump won in spite of his sabotage.
Anyone who would support him is a moron or a masochist.
Trump is not in disarray.
Trump is necessarily drawing out the negotiation.
The MSM cries of transition chaos.
Coordinated effort to pressure Trump.
In play is the Mitt Chip for nixing the filibuster.
Trump is weighing the immediate vs. the 2018 plan to crush the GOPe Lindas.
John Bolton’s the Man!
I don’t get why people are bringing up Romney for VA when he was a draft dodger from a family of draft dodgers...going back to the civil war
Would be happy with Petraeus, and Romney seems like the worst possible choice, and Giuliani not much better, but my vote would go to Tulsi Gabbard:
1. Yes, a Dem, but she already sees exactly eye-to-eye with Trump on foreign policy (i.e. opposed to neoconservative endless wars, but ready to conclusively name and end Islamic extremism). By the way, the same can be said for exactly no one in the Republican foreign policy “establishment”, all of whom opposed Trump with their every breath, many of whom went to far as to endorse Hillary.
2. Takes her off the playing field for the Democrats and I happen to think she’s by far the best thing they have going right now.
3. Showed her integrity and courage when she stepped down from the DNC and called them out for rigging the primary, long before Wikileaks proved it.
4. Would reinforce the split between the Clinton and Sanders wings of the Democratic Party, and it’s in our interest to do whatever we can to keep stoking that fire for as long as possible.
5. Military vet
6. Appointing a woman of color to the top Cabinet post, a Democrat at that, would basically demolish a big part of the scaffolding of the “Trump = racist, sexist, bigot” narrative that we all know the left will hinge its opposition to Trump on.
Freeped and bumped.
Leni
Freeped and bumped.
Leni
And these personal loyalty spats appear to be much less important to Trump than to his cultists.
I think Trump will do fine. The country is more important than fealty to one man and that's how Trump seems to be approaching his appointments no matter how you feel about it.
RUDY! RUDY!
Romney pledge.
After eight years of so-called "progressive" ideology and semantics, the world needs to see and hear the real voice of America in its Secretary of State--that voice which can be identified with peace through strength, and, a consciousness of George Washington's Farewell Address warning:
"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally."This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
"Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
"It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another." - Excerpts from George Washington's Farewell Address
“he’ll do as he’s told while trying not to make waves or a name for himself”
Did we miss the whole Never Trump thing? This is the last person I want representing our interests on the global stage.
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