Posted on 09/06/2018 8:35:21 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Will see. Thank you for the excellent reasoned response. My only counter point, is that Jon Huntsmen ran for president as Bill Kristol type conservative as well as a foreign policy moderate. He honestly believes that he is above politics when it comes to shaping Russian foreign policy (the gist of the article).
When he was governor of Utah he had this to say about trade.
I don’t subscribe to the Mitt Romney school of international trade. I don’t want to find ourselves in a trade war. With respect to China, if you start slapping penalties on them based on countervailing duties, you’re going to get the same thing in return because what they’re going to say, because of quantitative easing part one and part two, you’re doing a similar thing to your currency. And then you’re going to find yourself in a trade war very, very quickly.
i believe woodward may well have "created" the op-ed writer as a composite character encompassing the sum of his whitehorse souses.
Trump should loudly call out woodward and, when pressed for proof, say that he has an anonymous source on deep background. that should shut'em up.
Right, just look at her Hubby and his rantings.
“..information as to what motivated this ‘woman’ ...”
that time of the month????
Elaine Lan Chao is the 18th and current United States Secretary of Transportation.
And the wife of Mitch McConnell
Huntsman is a faux conservative like McCain. Like McCain, he supports amnesty. He has always portrayed himself as more of a moderate willing to cross the aisle. He was Obama's ambassador to China.
Here is a lengthy Vanity Fair 2011 article about Huntsman:Jon Huntsman: The Outsider
"There is, however, at least one moderate Republican present: the smooth, cosmopolitan former Utah governor, who not only is on record as a supporter of gay civil unions but also served under Barack Obama as ambassador to China until a few months ago. Surveying the motley crowd with an ironic expression, he begins, “All I can tell you is that I never thought I would be making an appearance at Mutt’s BBQ.”
There is one paragraph that indicates Huntsman admiration for McCain, which is included in the op-ed. However, I don't see a leader of the "loyal" resistance being located halfway around the world and still be acquainted with many of the details of palace intrigue. I don't see Huntsman using the language of "first principles."
This difference may be what fuels the tension between the two candidates—a tension exacerbated by Huntsman’s endorsement of McCain over Romney in 2008. It’s nothing personal, Huntsman says; he and Romney barely know each other. “But number one is number one and 47 is 47,” he says, referring back to their respective states’ job-creation stats. “Some people run from their record,” he pointed out in another dig. “I am running on my record.”
To be honest, I am wary of this. We will find out soon, there are no secrets in Washington. But, I want it to Elaine Chao, just to damage the RINOs.
the Secretary of Transportation is a senior official, and a Cabinet member.
The current Secretary of Transportation is a woman, Elaine Chao.
Elaine Chao had been a Cabinet officer before, serving 8 years as Dubya’s Secretary of Labor.
Elaine Chao is married to Mitch McConnell.
Michael Caputo said that the Op Ed writer will be a woman, a senior administration official, and that:
“It’s dangerous to fire her because of who she’s related to.”
How do we know it WASN’T Omarosa????
“It doesn’t say CURRENT senior administration official.”
Chao is both a current and former senior official. She is the only Cabinet officer to serve in all eight years of Dubya’s administration, at Labor.
That, and being married to Mitch McConnell makes her about as GOP establishment as anyone can possibly be. Part of a GOP hierarchy that sees Trump as an interloper who has no business being President.
The McConnell connection could make it tough to fire her. I hope that they throw her ass in Leavenworth if it is Chao.
Because Caputo said this:
“It’s dangerous to fire her because of who she’s related to.”
Omarosa has already been fired, and she isn’t related to anyone “dangerous”.
i believe woodward may well have “created” the op-ed writer as a composite character encompassing the sum of his whitehouse sources
DING DING DING
I don’t believe Elaine Chao has come out with her denial yet . . .
McConnell and his wife don't engage in such discussions. The person who wrote the op-ed is in the mold of a #NeverTrumper like David French.
Here is why:
Note the tone of the article and the similarities.
We're Watching an Antidemocratic Coup Unfold (David A. Graham propaganda)
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/09/trump-mattis-kelly-new-york-times/569416/
Here is an article about the author:
#tcot #TX #OK #DC
David A. Graham: (Whence he came?) A Closer Look at a Newsweek ‘Reporter (7-15-2010)
https://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2010/07/15/david-a-graham-a-closer-look-at-a-newsweek-reporter/
Graham doesn’t use reason to discredit the DOJ discrimination story, it’s all emotion, speculation, conjecture, half truths, double talk and — wait for it, wait for it — links to Media Matters! All that’s missing is a quality we used to find in reporters — a burning desire to get unanswered questions answered and to find out who’s lying and who’s telling the truth.
David A. Graham may call himself a reporter, but that job description is only true if by reporter you mean left-wing propagandist.
Hoaxes containing out-and-out lies tarring Republican presidents and presidential candidates would not be new operational mode for the MSM. Remember Dan Rather's "Bush was AWOL from the Air National Guard" story? And as far back as 1964, CBS News claimed that neo-Nazis in Europe were ecstatic about Barry Goldwater getting the GOP presidential nomination.
Caputo said something that stood out to me. Said something like “there’s nothing he can do about it.” Meaning Trump. The lack of classic English, the sadness that McCain is gone but there is still someone who holds his place. That sounds like a loyal wife defending her husband. Lodestar, etc. it all fits Elaine Chaio. Trump can’t do a thing about her and that is exactly why I was never happy that DJT gave her a position. He needed Turtle and still needs him. Turtle is dangerous.
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