Posted on 12/14/2016 7:26:01 AM PST by Freemeorkillme
Tuesday evening on the radio, Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin addressed the announcement that Exxon-Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state.
Levin said that the choice of Rex Tillerson ranks among the “worst” of Trump’s Cabinet picks.
Rex Tillerson: Trump’s most disastrous pick – The Conservative Conscience Ep77 Listen:
Tillerson has close ties to members of the ruling class establishment. His nomination was praised by the likes of Condoleezza Rice, Robert Gates, and James Baker — luminaries of the Bush administration and, in the case of Rice and Gates, lobbyists for Exxon-Mobil. Additionally, his close relationship with Vladimir Putin is a major cause for concern.
Fundamentally, Tillerson is the wrong man for the wrong job at the wrong time. As Levin read from Conservative Review Senior Editor Daniel Horowitz’s piece today:
Trump should have appointed a secretary of State who regards the current State Department with as much disdain as Scott Pruitt regards the EPA. The problem we have at the State Department is not a management crisis. We have a moral and intellectual problem with the State Department that has persisted for decades. It stems from a deep-rooted culture of moral relativism and an “America-last” mindset. As such, we needed a man with a strong ideological rudder who understands the issues, is on the right side of them, and willing to bust up the entire State Department structure and the global foreign policy apparatus.
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He buggered up the Boy Scouts.
Trump’s in charge.
Trump says he’ll cancel the Paris climate deal
http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-36401174
He’ll said he was going to get out of that Paris climate deal and Trump assigned a global warming skeptic to head the EPA who will get the EPA off of U.S. businesses
Maybe you think Hillary was a better choice who was going to open the border and let into the USA a few billion 3rd world people and Muslims ?
“SHREDS”?? Only to an immature kid unable to control her little emotions.
“I just don’t trust Levin to be objective regarding anything Trump says or does, frankly”.
Exactly and that’s the point. His bias comes through in ever analysis he makes about Trump. Why should we listen to him? I certainly don’t anymore. For the first time, I would rather trust the President than the pundits. Trump has earned that trust frankly. He is open about who he is and owns up to anything he says. I respect that.
Seems like Vlad and Trump are the only ones who get Islam.
Levin has gone the way of Glen Beck.
He’s an ideologue with no sense of pragmatism.
Professional complainers can just put forward a name if they hate this guy so much.
But we all know the names they would put out are of people you could just as easily apply the same stuff towards.
Better to just complain. Less responsibility.
Madelene was oblivious to everything.
Hillary was nothing more than a war monger.
Kerry is a pussy....and totally owned by Obama.
Each one of them have "negotiated" in favor of the enemy.
Like many people here I am through with open borders Mark Levin. That makes us all antisemites.
No I won’t listen to the old fart’s foaming at the mouth rants.
After ISIS, that is.
Yeah, Trump can go ahead an appoint Hillary... after all, he's in charge (as you say), so it shouldn't matter.
Levin has hated Trump from day one.
Trump was too far out for him. Levin much preferred the establishment types.
Now Trump makes a pick that Levin thinks is too “establishment”?
Doesn’t pass the smell test. Levin is still just trying to undermine Trump.
I have to wonder if some of the things Levin was complaining about (Tillerson on being pro AGW, etc) was kinda forced on Exxon if they were to survive under (gasp!) President Hillary.
I like that Trump did not
1) Pick a defeated rival to placate them (ala Clinton for Obama, or Romney)
2) Did not pick an insider or political hack (Kerry) looking to build a power base or stay in the public eye
Tillerson is already wealthy, doesn’t need the money, and isn’t a Washington insider, as far as I know. I believe he is serving just because he believes its the right thing to do.
Has Levin marginalized himself?
Here in a nut shell is why the dogmatic Conservatives like Levin have been the most politically impotent political movement in history.
We are not going to undo 100 years of creeping socialism by stamping out feet and holding our breath demanding ideologically perfect political allies. Some times you have to go with people who disagree with you position on this or that issue.
If, as Levin demands, you only accept perfectly pure politcal allies, you are going to end up being a pathetic little drone screaming on the radio, not in a position of leadership able to advance your agenda.
Levin, with his daily hysteric whining is an example of how the usual “Movement Conservatives” try desperately to spin a win as a defeat because the candidate is not 100% in line with their ivory tower fantasy of ideological political purity.
Since when is having a constructive business-only relationship with the leader of a major global power a bad thing?
I know we’re on opposite sides in Syria, but we’re the ones funding Al Qaeda (Al Nusra).
Yes, but as far as Levin is concerned, my I DON’T GIVE A $HIT METER is pegged!
Tillerson will be working for Trump (who is working for us).
He doesn’t have to be ideologically pure.
I don’t care if he’s as confused as Hank Rearden.
He has the skills. And Trump thinks he’ll do.
Sorry, Tillerson doesn’t have the “skills”. He’s got no experience dealing with statecraft. Nobody in Trump’s inner circle does as far as I can tell. Tillerson, Flynn, Little Jared, etc. None experienced in the foreign policy jiu-jitsu that Putin specializes in. Putin is going to play Team Trump like a fiddle by keeping things on a low boil. And anybody who is not a Trump is always righter can see this train wreck coming.
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