Posted on 11/22/2016 10:18:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
What did Bolton accept?
There are several good reasons for choosing Haley, each of which make sense in terms of President Trump accomplishing as much as possible while in office. Given that this is UN Ambassador and not Secretary of State or another genuinely important office, I'm okay with the choice.
“Giving up a governorship to become ambassador to the toothless UN is considered part of a “steep political rise”? Sounds more like a severe loss of power and policy-making ability. It’s not like being UN ambassador is a springboard to political power. Why would she want this?”
Try this on for size. It would give her some credibility in foreign affairs in case she wants a run at the Presidency to be the first woman President. That would fill a hole in a resume that governors have a hard time filling.
I think it might turn out to be a masterstroke by Trump, adding a woman to his team even though he’s not PC addicted while giving the GOP a nice bench for the future as well.
This was predicted by Scott Adams (Dilbert) here:
“But Trump has a more solvable framing problem. Clinton’s team labelled him a racist, homophobic, sexist. Trump can violate that frame enough times to break it over time. But it will take a lot of cracks. You’ve already seen several. Expect more to come.”
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153172272041/how-to-break-an-illusion
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