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’s an oil exec...of course he’s against AGW!! It’s not like Trump picked the CEO of a windmill company
Yeah. I want Trump to succeed in MAGA, too!
Doesn’t mean we have to give up our conservative principles to do so. I know I’m not alone.
Levin is a linear thinker and despite his bluster is not even in the same intellectual league with Trump or Tillerson for that matter. Levin is extremely tiresome and his rantings are those of a lunatic rather than a thoughtful and articulate voice of the conservative movement.
Are you saying that the last few administrations had people skilled in statecraft? Were they successful? Are we as a nation, or the world, better off? Looks like you have bought into the idea that only a politician who has lived in a theory bubble all his life can get anything done.
None who were on the list were perfect. Everyone of them had a flaw of some kind or other.
I think Tillerson was Trump’s way of sidestepping Romney.
To Giuliani’s credit, he took himself out of the running when it became evident that his presence was giving the media fodder to use against Trump.
He was my first choice for AG.
Sessions was my choice to replace McConnell as Senate Majority Leader.
I didn’t have a first choice for Secty of State early on.
Also solves so many foreign policy problems.
“Levin is beginning to sound hysterical.”
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Beginning? BEGINNING??? Levin has been annoyingly hysterical (using his most annoying voice) for years! He was one of the first “paid Never Trumpers”-—yes, PAID! he got money for it and was relieved of a ton of debt incurred in his TV start-up.
Can’t rely on Levin for much of anything anymore.
Johnnie,
The only reservation I have against opposition to this appointment is the universal comments from those that know him as this guy is the one that could possibly put Iran back in the box.
Thanks Mark. We’ll keep doing the heavy lifting here on our end.
Thank you for an interesting perspective and well-composed post. This is another way of looking at it that I hadn’t considered.
It is also possible that Tillerson’s embrace of the Enviro-nazis, as a big oil exec, is also a corporate PC song and dance? I’d love for that notion to be the case. In fact, I’m praying that to be the case.
He’s 3rd in line for POTUS, for God’s sake!
Tillerson, other CEOs, and generals are EXPERT at completing missions and achieving goals.
If they have signed on to complete a specific Trump objective, then I’m fine with it.
I can hire a democrat carpenter to build a house if he’s a great carpenter. No need to discuss politics with him.
Ditto
Such as the mission of buggering up the BSA?
Levin always had a grating voice (not as much as Savage, but close).
He’s never really been my cup of tea, he isn’t on in my area, and I’d only catch him when driving through some area where the local stations carried him.
To his credit, in those old days he was a consistent conservative, but he has gone totally off the rails with Trump.
That was Gates.
Hmmm interesting. Going to do some reading on that. Rush Limbaugh was pretty positive about this guy while Levin hate him. Odd to have them completely at opposite ends on this.
It should be ok then to fill the administration with dems, as long as they do a good job.
Lol people still actually listen to Levin? He makes Beck look stable.
“You do realize that allowing gays to be public about their Boy Scout participation actually decreases the odds of secret buggery? Think about it.”
Wow. So let’s have open homosexuality everywhere - oh, wait. We already do. It’s just the conservatives and Christians who need to be ashamed and in the closet now.
This too shall pass. Periods of great moral degradation don’t last that long because encouraging people to do whatever they want sexually doesn’t work well for society in the long run.
Bingo! Companies couldn’t afford to deny GW with Obama in office. Didn’t they try to prosecute Exxon for denying GW?
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