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RUMOR: John Bolton to be Named Secretary of State
Red State ^ | 11/14/2015

Posted on 11/14/2016 1:08:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind

This is thin, but it fits into everything that is being said about filling the Secretary of State position.

Source says John Bolton is close to being named Secretary of State, Corker still a remote possibility, Gingrich is out

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) November 14, 2016


Bolton would be an inspired choice both in terms of the temperament needed to turn around a fat, flailing and failing State Department that is more interested in being liked by the right people than in pursuing the nation’s interests and in the message it sends.

State is a byzantine organization with its own personnel regulations and it has traditionally operated as though it was the sole adult in the room and the president, especially when the president was a Republican, was an unruly child. Bolton has caused the Iranians and North Koreans to complain about him in the past and the Democrats filibustered his appointment as UN ambassador. His nomination would be a sign that Trump is serious about foreign policy and that he’s not afraid to make enemies of the right people.


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: bolton; johnbolton; secretaryofstate; trump2016; trumpcabinet; trumptransition
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To: SeekAndFind
Just as long as it is not this Bolton: michael bolton photo: michael bolton bolton_detaliu.jpg
141 posted on 11/14/2016 2:24:49 PM PST by Angels27
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To: xzins

Good!

We need to have more “Scalia’s”in the Supreme Court, stay OUT of “human rights” wars, and STOP islam and our insane enemy North Korea!!!!

Why can’t we work with China and South Korea to trade food for bombs in North Korea? I have Korean friends who tell me that North and South Koreans are really the same people—even from the same families.

But I suppose that one cannot deal rationally with the insane!


142 posted on 11/14/2016 2:28:30 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: FarNorth

I think you’re right. Sorry. Too much cold medication today. I’ll stay off the posting for a bit.


143 posted on 11/14/2016 2:30:10 PM PST by Fhios (In the end Hillary, MSM, and Obama were beat by Trumps pure strategic genius.)
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To: Vlaxo
Bolton exposed himself as a neo-con hack in the late 1990s when he began to clamor publicly for the Clinton administration to launch a military campaign against Serbia on behalf of the radical Islamic separatists in Kosovo.

Trump cannot "drain the swamp" in Washington if he appoints @ssholes like this who have been living in the oozing stench for 30+ years.

144 posted on 11/14/2016 2:38:02 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: RatRipper

Bolton sucked at his last job. I hope this is just a rumor.


145 posted on 11/14/2016 2:38:06 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Vlaxo

He sucked! No ifs ands or buts.


146 posted on 11/14/2016 2:39:07 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: bigbob

Why did he fail miserably as UN ambassador? His job was to shut the place down. Instead he made it stronger and anti-American.


147 posted on 11/14/2016 2:40:54 PM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: henkster

Newt’s mouth often moves before his brain. If Trump leaves him out of the power structure, fine by me.


148 posted on 11/14/2016 2:41:40 PM PST by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: Fhios

Not sure about Bolton’s wife killed on 9/11 but Barbara Olsen, the wife of Theodore Olsen (Solicitor General under W) died in the plane that hit the Pentagon.


149 posted on 11/14/2016 2:41:55 PM PST by RichyTea (To those offended - take off your blinders)
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To: Alberta's Child

Bolton is not a neo-con. He is a goldwater conservative and trusted member of Reagan’s justice department who was chosen to guide Antonin Scalia’s appointment through confirmation process.


150 posted on 11/14/2016 2:45:46 PM PST by xzins
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To: SeekAndFind

Look at this:

http://www.rt.com/news/366925-putin-trump-phone-call/

This is very positive, and is relate to how a Trump State Department would and should operate!!!!


151 posted on 11/14/2016 2:58:13 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: xzins
John Bolton was one of the directors of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). If that doesn't make him a "neo-con," then the term "neo-con" has no meaning.

Pardon my French, but this guy is a New World Order jerkoff through-and-through.

152 posted on 11/14/2016 2:58:26 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("Yo, bartender -- Jobu needs a refill!")
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To: Alberta's Child; Honorary Serb
Are you guys confusing Bolton with someone else? He criticized the bombing of Serbia. THis is a quotation:

"We ought to be concerned about this so-called right of humanitarian intervention—a right of intervention that is just a gleam in one beholder’s eye but looks like flat-out aggression to somebody else. What we did was bomb innocent civilian Serbs into the ground in order that the Albanians can come back and ethnically cleanse the Serbs’ relatives out of what’s left of Kosovo."

Bolton is a great choice, not a neo-con, hated by liberals, and rock solid on every issue I can think of.

153 posted on 11/14/2016 2:59:46 PM PST by Wayne07
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To: MrShoop

That of course is GREAT!!!!

No more “human rights” wars, or meddling in the Orthodox Christian world!!! And Trump and Putin are discussing Syria, too!!!!


154 posted on 11/14/2016 3:02:52 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: bigbob

I know it’s not popular here but I like Bolton and think this is a great appointment. Tough, straight-talker, a smart guy with all the right enemies and a superb resume.


Bolton is popular except among the day dreaming Putin lover crowd.


155 posted on 11/14/2016 3:23:11 PM PST by lodi90 (President Trump - Has a nice ring to it!)
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To: JohnBrowdie

lol. you see the term “neocon” on FR more often than on DU these days . . . well, if DU was up, that is.


Just for a bit longer. The campaign is over. Time for President Trump to govern. The Putin lovers and checker playing isolationists are being sent to the kiddie table where they belong.


156 posted on 11/14/2016 3:25:24 PM PST by lodi90 (President Trump - Has a nice ring to it!)
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To: DoodleDawg

Newt has said several times that he will have conversations with Trump in an advisory capacity. Nothing official.


157 posted on 11/14/2016 3:25:35 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: bigbob

I know. Some of the suggestions here have nothing to do with pegging the roles and responsibilities to the individual’s credentials and qualifications.


158 posted on 11/14/2016 3:28:38 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: AU72

Yup. Those are my predictions as well. They both have the proper credentials for those assignments.


159 posted on 11/14/2016 3:31:31 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: drewh

YES!!! to Bolton!!! He is the perfect guy for that job!


160 posted on 11/14/2016 3:39:09 PM PST by EinNYC
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