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Gingrich: Tillerson is 'as good a catch as you can get'
Fox News ^ | Dec. 12, 2016 | Fox News

Posted on 12/12/2016 8:51:00 AM PST by conservative98

Former House speaker weighs in on 'Fox & Friends'

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KEYWORDS: gingrich; pghbjugop; secretaryofstate; sos; tillerson; trump; trumpcabinet; trumptransition
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To: HotHunt

The problem with tillerson is that he is an executive. Doesn’t matter how great he is or great negotiator he is. He will review the state personnel and see all the great “qualifica tions” on their resumes. Grad degrees from ivy league schools and not clean house. He is an exec not an idealogue. You need an idealogue who understands that these people all throughout our government are a cancer, and don’t have America’s best interest at heart. Clinton “drained the swamp” so to say of all the Reagan Bush people. W did not and had all those people in the Fed undermining him. Carson for instance is a nice guy and a good brain surgeon from what I hear, but that doesn’t change the fact that he is an imbecile and not qualified to make the change in our government. Trump cannot succeed unless he first drains the swamp. Picking so called good people or smart people is not the solution. Having the balls to fight fire with fire is what is necessary. Corp execs may very well be capable of doing the job, but you need people who will completely bleachbit the government of every person in every department after Obama.


21 posted on 12/12/2016 9:41:35 AM PST by pghbjugop
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To: lodi90

Negotiating skills are transferrable from industry to industry and from industry to government. He has a working relationship with Putin, your characterization of “BFF” is inaccurate.


22 posted on 12/12/2016 9:42:59 AM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: RedStateRocker

“was struck by how Rubio and McCain, came out expressing great concerns and doubt about him..”

I’m telling you, if the Senate was 50-50 McCain would pull a Jim Jeffords
switch sides and give the Senate to the Dems to “keep balance and deny Trump too much power”. McCain has gone from useful idiot to outright traitor.


23 posted on 12/12/2016 9:44:04 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Hehehe.... you said Republican senators.


24 posted on 12/12/2016 9:44:52 AM PST by AFreeBird (BEST. ELECTION. EVER!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

You watch, Rubio hang his star with the McLame/Grahamnasty RINO ring of the Repugnants in the Senate. Should he do so, I hope he pays dearly for it, and but good!


25 posted on 12/12/2016 9:46:59 AM PST by nfldgirl
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To: Sacajaweau

Watch the video.


26 posted on 12/12/2016 9:59:09 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: JimRed

Watch the video.


27 posted on 12/12/2016 10:00:24 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: bigbob

Tillerson was decorated by Putin. BFF is how the world is perceiving it. Good luck getting any help on the Chicoms for example if Trump continues in this vein.


28 posted on 12/12/2016 10:16:03 AM PST by lodi90
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To: nfldgirl

Rubio was just elected. He won’t “pay for” anything for six years.


29 posted on 12/12/2016 10:17:56 AM PST by lodi90
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To: Cobra64

I did....


30 posted on 12/12/2016 10:27:38 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: JimRed
Which prompts me to ask, what's in it for Newt?

LOL! When Newt disagrees with Trump, he speaks up - why can't he actually like Tillerson?

For all his faults, Newt has been on the right side in most things.

31 posted on 12/12/2016 10:48:23 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: pghbjugop
Your argument collapsed when you casually called Carson an "imbecile". The man's the premier pediatric neurosurgeon in the country. Not recognizing that fact and giving the man his due and then stooping to your liberal name-calling tactic is not a poor reflection of him but rather of you.

And who would these idealogical people you speak of be, who will do all of this housecleaning with bleach who can also get consent from the Senate?

Your wanting something and being able to execute it in the real world are two different things.

32 posted on 12/12/2016 10:53:48 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: pghbjugop

That was one of the dumbest posts I ever read here.


33 posted on 12/12/2016 10:57:56 AM PST by SamAdams76
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To: pghbjugop

-—The problem with tillerson is that he is an executive——

Which is why he will be good.

He is not a common beer drinking football loving punch press operator off the factory floor who constantly spews his wisdom.

I’v heard it thousands of times.... “and I told that engineer....”


34 posted on 12/12/2016 11:00:00 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: pghbjugop
Picking so called good people or smart people is not the solution.

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No kidding?

35 posted on 12/12/2016 11:01:12 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: JimRed
Which prompts me to ask, what's in it for Newt?

ummmm - got some examples of Newt being after something - except what he can for country?

36 posted on 12/12/2016 11:30:35 AM PST by maine-iac7 (Christian is as Christian does)
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To: maine-iac7

Newt’s a politician, so I can’t fully trust him, just as I can’t fully trust most of them. That’s what I like about Trump; he’s not one of them.


37 posted on 12/12/2016 11:34:14 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: JimRed

Which doesn’t mean that I’m SURE I can fully trust Trump, just that one of the barriers to trust is out of the way.


38 posted on 12/12/2016 11:37:14 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: pghbjugop

Smokin’ the sofa today are we?

Carson is an imbecile? How many pediatric brain surgeries have you, a non-imbecile, completed successfully?


39 posted on 12/12/2016 11:38:32 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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