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Rand Paul Explains Why John Bolton Should Be 'Nowhere Close' to the State Department
Townhall ^ | 12/11/2016 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 12/11/2016 8:34:24 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Former Republican presidential candidate and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has a strong opinion on John Bolton's candidacy to serve in Donald Trump's State Department. The former UN ambassador is being considered for the No. 2 spot in the agency, yet Paul argues that Bolton's endorsement of the Iraq War disqualifies him from working in the administration.

“John Bolton doesn’t get it. He still believes in regime change. He’s still a big cheerleader for the Iraq War,” Paul said. “John Bolton is so far out of it and has such a naive understanding of the world.”

Bolton should get "nowhere close" to the State Department, Paul concluded. He is preparing to block Bolton's nomination. 

As for the top role in the agency, Trump is likely to tap Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, who's facing his own opposition from lawmakers concerned about his business ties with Russia's Vladimir Putin.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amnesty; johnbolton; paul; paulbots; randpaul; rino; state
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To: Theoria

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...I see, you wear a tinfoil BURKA; I should have known. ;^)


81 posted on 12/11/2016 10:54:57 PM PST by nopardons
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To: SecAmndmt

I provided one; obviously your reading comprehension skills are bottom of the barrel. Bless your heart.


82 posted on 12/11/2016 10:56:12 PM PST by nopardons
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To: okie01

No, NOT “my opinion”; the opinion of the government of the USA and our Constitution!


83 posted on 12/11/2016 10:57:50 PM PST by nopardons
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To: okie01
Oh...and in HIS opinion, when he was first running for his Senate seat and asked what constituted a NBC, on a Texas radio show, that took call in queries.

Look it up....before you reply.

84 posted on 12/11/2016 10:59:15 PM PST by nopardons
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To: SeekAndFind

He is right in the general sense about Iraq being an unneeded disaster.


85 posted on 12/11/2016 11:23:11 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If Iraq does show that the Middle East can support one Constitution democracy, will Rand still be angry, even though that will encourage its spread? Wouldn’t this be the best way to combat terrorism?


86 posted on 12/11/2016 11:34:09 PM PST by Crucial
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To: nopardons
1) My "scut work" is done. I don't know what your objection is because you're way too cool to tell me. Apparently, your preferred method of discourse is to throw out vague statements and then sit back and feel smug.

2) The exact timeline of the ascendance of the modern Republicans and Democrats is almost unrelated to the main point of my statement. If you can't be bothered to make your counter-point, then I can't be bothered to refute it.
87 posted on 12/12/2016 12:02:18 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak
As any educated person KNOWS, the two party system came into being after the Jefferson presidency and was in FULL swing/bloom by 1828.

Ergo, your supposed scut work looks to have been nonexistent. Instead, you demand to be spoon fed factual history, which for some reason or other, you aren't cognizant of.

88 posted on 12/12/2016 12:11:14 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

lol, I knew you would miss it because you were too busy being snarky. Notice how I mentioned earlier that I was referencing the time when the current Republicans and Democrats came into power? No? Oops on your part then. Try harder next time


89 posted on 12/12/2016 12:24:50 AM PST by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak
That doesn't matter and I saw it!

As with all who believe that they are just oh SO very clever and intelligent.....you aren't!

I mention the TWO PARTY SYSTEM, now YOU have egg on your face from that, as well as your claim that the GOP didn't start until the later part of the 19th century.

So Honest Abe is what...nothing, as far as you're concerned? And the year he ran for the presidency and won, was.....? Come on, diddums, you can do it; just try to do it without having to look it up first! LOL

90 posted on 12/12/2016 12:30:48 AM PST by nopardons
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To: fr_freak
And YOU said the TWO PARTY SYSTEM in post #59, NOT anything whatsoever about Dems & GOPs!

When you step in it, you REALLY step in it! Bless your heart. *snicker*

91 posted on 12/12/2016 12:33:12 AM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
No, NOT “my opinion”; the opinion of the government of the USA and our Constitution!

If it is, indeed, the opinion of the government of the USA and our Constitution, why has it never been enforced? In fact, two people have been elected president despite having only one American citizen parent.

92 posted on 12/12/2016 12:34:35 AM PST by okie01
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To: okie01
You're wrong about TWO presidents, and it wasn't enforced against Obama, for very obvious reasons.

And WHY are you completely ignoring the FACT that twee Teddykins, flat out stated, when he was running for his Senate seat, that a NBC was a person born on AMERICAN soil, whose mother AND father were both citizens of the USA, at the time of said child's birth ?

And FYI....this is the info that is in the study guides, printed by OUR government, handed out to all those who are LEGALLY trying to become citizens of this nation and who are studying for the exam. Also, I know for a certitude, that this info was given to dear Tedddykin's crazy father, when he was studying to become a citizen in 2006!

93 posted on 12/12/2016 12:45:52 AM PST by nopardons
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To: SeekAndFind

FURP


94 posted on 12/12/2016 1:35:23 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tell me again, Mr. President Rand Paul, how many electoral votes did YOU get?


95 posted on 12/12/2016 1:39:57 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hillary Clinton: the official candidate of the National Sleep Foundation)
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To: SecAmndmt

“You answered your own question. He served about 25 years. Do you think his constituents would have re-elected him if they felt he did not offer constituent services, or speak on behalf of freedom, liberty and the Constitution?”

Actually the correct answer is that he bull$hitted his constituents into believing him. But that’s true for most of our long-tenured politicians. Each of them has some sort of a “hook” into their constituents that keeps them voting for them. A lot of the time it’s skin color or some other mark of discrimination. Then again is may simply be abject stupidity and self-absorption on the part of the constituents.


96 posted on 12/12/2016 2:08:41 AM PST by vette6387
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To: Right-wing Librarian
If Rex is nominated to be SOS, and Bolton for Deputy SOS, why does the Senate have to confirm the Deputy SOS? Isn’t that a #2 position? How many ranks require Senate confirmation?

See the Plum Book.

According to the above, the following are confirmed:

There's a whole lot of appointees that must be confirmed, in other words.

97 posted on 12/12/2016 2:43:57 AM PST by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: nopardons
You're wrong about TWO presidents, and it wasn't enforced against Obama, for very obvious reasons.

Chester A. Arthur's father was born in the UK and was still a British citizen at the time of his birth. He was the first president who didn't fit your definition.

...it wasn't enforced against Obama, for very obvious reasons.

What obvious reasons. Because he was black? Isn't every other law enforced on blacks? Out of the millions of people who should've known better, nobody even mentioned that there might be a problem...because he was black?

Fact is, nobody even broached the so-called two American parent requirement on Free Republic until December 8, 2008 -- over a month after Obama's election.

And, of course, no legal objection to Cruz's candidacy was eve upheld.

98 posted on 12/12/2016 2:56:01 AM PST by okie01
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To: GOPJ

Only three R senators have to turn to threaten a Trump nominee. That is the dynamic he has to work with. If I were Trump I would throw a real red meat nominee out there for the Senate to rail against so some of my marginal picks could slip through.


99 posted on 12/12/2016 3:08:50 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
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To: markomalley

Most informative. Thanks for posting.


100 posted on 12/12/2016 3:18:36 AM PST by Right-wing Librarian
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