Posted on 11/23/2016 9:26:28 AM PST by bobk333
“Governor Romney wanted to be president, not secretary of state,” Gingrich said. “And you have to ask the question, when he goes overseas, is going to be the secretary of state for President Trump or is he going to be Mitt Romney’s own secretary of state? I would hope, and again I would support whoever President-elect Trump picks because he has the right as the new president to build the team he wants to build. But I would suggest there a lot of other people who are more qualified than Romney on foreign policy and are also have not been actively hostile as he has been.”
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Rudy has defended Trump from the beginning and what must Donald Trump be thinking?
Mike Huckabee says he ‘was offered a cabinet slot – I didn’t think it was a great fit for me’ as he warns that making Mitt Romney secretary of state would be ‘a real insult’ to Trump voters
Two-time presidential contender Mike Huckabee blasted Mitt Romney, saying Trump risks a huge backlash if he makes him secretary of state
‘It would be a real insult to all those Donald Trump voters who worked really hard’ for the anti-establishment president-elect,’ he said
Huckabee, a former governor and Fox News Channel host, recalled that Romney was disloyal and slammed Trump personally in a March speech
Said Trump offered him a cabinet slot, which e turned down, but wouldn’t say which position it was
By David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com
Published: 08:13 EST, 23 November 2016 | Updated: 10:13 EST, 23 November 2016
Mike Huckabee said Wednesday that he turned down President-elect Donald Trump’s request that he take a place in his cabinet, and blasted the idea of making Mitt Romney the next secretary of state.
‘I’m not talking about what it was,’ the former Arkansas governor said on the ‘Fox & Friends’ program. ‘I was offered a cabinet slot. I didn’t think it was a great fit for me.’
Huckabee, a 61-year-old Baptist minister and former Fox News Channel host, also clobbered Romney in no uncertain terms.
‘It’s not about that I don’t care for Mitt personally. But I’m still very unhappy that Mitt did everything he could to derail Donald Trump,’ he said, painting the 2012 Republican presidential nominee as disloyal and wildly unpopular among Trump’s electoral base.
‘He didn’t just go after him from the standpoint of “I disagree with his policy on immigration, I disagree with his policy on taxes.” He attacked him on a personal level about his character, integrity, his honor.’
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3964434/Mike-Huckabee-says-offered-cabinet-slot-didn-t-think-great-fit-warns-making-Mitt-Romney-secretary-state-real-insult-Trump-voters.html#ixzz4Qr7DvKH9
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With all the trouble Romney caused, I would have a stuff time trusting him. But I am not the President Elect. The world globalist may be more comfortable with Romney.
Romney would be a terrible choice for Secretary of State.
Romney won’t make America great again, he will only make Romney great again. Choke artist.
Now to be not so nice. He probably did have such a protocol person and flubbed it anyway.
Romney will never truly be on Trump’s team.
He has his own agenda and only plays for Team Romney. Romney has on more than one occasion failed to stand tall when it mattered. You cannot count on or trust people like that.
Trump would soon regret this decision. I promise you that.
Huckabee is right. He’s a good judge of character.
It doesn’t matter. The Queen is a joke. It’s 2016 and these people do nothing and swallow the tax payers money. Screw them.
Don’t you remember the CD he gave to the queen of his speeches when they visited Buckingham?
No matter what the problem is, Rudy Giuliani is not and never will be the solution.
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Letting Romney on the team is a BIG mistake.
The biggest problem is quite specific: the State Dept is a hotbed of anti-American snakes from top to bottom. They take our tax dollars and hand it out to muslim fanatics and various other thugs and often hire muslims as auditors. All the USAID contractors and auditors need to be fired but that will be very difficult to pull off.
While I don’t have any way of knowing what’s going on inside the transition, I do know what I would be advising right now, if I was there:
1) Trump hasn’t won anything other than a slate of 290/306 Electors, who are virtually all ESTABLISHMENT Republicans, and probably over 90% (if not 100%) supported someone else in the Primaries.
2) Almost for sure, some of these Electors, maybe many of them, would LOVE to figure out a way to not vote for Trump and to replace him with Jeb, Rubio, or Clinton, or whoever.
3) Trump doesn’t get their votes for another 25 days, and I would be telling him to not give them any reason to turn on him...and so far he’s been listening.
4) The House votes after the Electors and needs to ratify (or reject) the choice of the electors.
5) Trump doesn’t get sworn in for nearly 2 months. This means that Romney is NOT Secretary of State until then. Trump can replace him in a heartbeat if he runs off with his own agenda.
6) But Romney (and many of his other choices and statements) makes it next to impossible for the Electors, or the House, or even Obama to stop him from taking office.
7) After Jan 21, with Obama safely gone, Trump doesn’t have to answer to the Establishment or anyone else...he can fire half his cabinet that day, if he chooses.
8) Romney will learn that the easy way or the hard way.
...and to add one more point, to my above points:
9) The Dems are even now looking into contesting Trump’s election, based on what those leftist professors claimed to have uncovered. Having a unified party supporting that fight is certainly better than having it torn up in infighting.
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