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Gingrich: 'I can think of 20 other people' better suited for secretary of state than Romney
Fox News ^ | November 23, 2016

Posted on 11/23/2016 11:48:50 AM PST by McGruff

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich expressed skepticism Tuesday at reports that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was the frontrunner to be President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of state.

"I can think of 20 other people who would be more naturally compatible with the Trump vision of foreign policy," Gingrich told Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

...Gingrich added that his preferred choices for secretary of state over Romney included former Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani and former Hewlett-Packard CEO and Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bishopromneycare; newt; romney2016; trumpcabinet; trumptransition; whoops
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To: xzins
I cannot think of a single good reason for Trump to nominate him.

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer?

21 posted on 11/23/2016 12:03:10 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (SandyInPeoria just doesn't sound right... yet here I am.)
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To: MagillaX

KT McFarland would be better than all of ‘em, IMHO. She supported Trump during the campaign and has more knowledge in areas pertinent to a SOS tasks.

If Romney is the pick, I’ll sure save some time and angst in my life as I’ll be disengaged from politics. All trust and respect for Trump will be gone.

Romney as SOS would be in it only for the glamor, traipsing all over the world at our expense and living the high life. It’ll be about him, and not about the country. He’ll stab Trump in the back the first chance he gets.


22 posted on 11/23/2016 12:03:16 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: McGruff

Gingrich: ‘I can think of 20 other people’ better suited for secretary of state than Romney.

How about millions of registered Republican voters, who voted for Trump.

Randomly pick one of them for a better SOS than Romney.


23 posted on 11/23/2016 12:03:47 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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To: beaversmom
I wish Newtie would get in the mix...somewhere.

Newt doesn't want to actually have a job.

He wants to freewheel as Trump's Official Oracle and use his supernatural insight to advise Trump as to what the future holds.


24 posted on 11/23/2016 12:03:48 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Iron Munro

He only has two hands and two feet! Just kidding! Maybe he is assuming some liberals will try to keep tally.


25 posted on 11/23/2016 12:03:59 PM PST by mazda77
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To: McGruff

Romney did not realize how much he hurt himself. He lost the trust of so many, and proved that he could not be a team player.


26 posted on 11/23/2016 12:04:11 PM PST by Swede Girl
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To: Iron Munro

lol...I think you are correct.


27 posted on 11/23/2016 12:04:29 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: proust
Me too. Start with the phone book.

If you can find that many residential listings left in it.

28 posted on 11/23/2016 12:05:04 PM PST by thulldud
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To: McGruff

Fiorina? Oh barf.


29 posted on 11/23/2016 12:06:21 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Swede Girl

Romney really made me angry when he was up against Newt, but I voted for him because he would have been better than Obama. But he is reeking of sleezeball to me right now. I don’t like how he acted. Keep your damn mouth shut if you don’t support the nominee. Did he want frickin’ Hillary in there!? The Bushes the same! And we know they really did want Hillary in there. Disgusting!


30 posted on 11/23/2016 12:06:52 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: McGruff

NO women, PERIOD.

NOT because I think that of them are incapable (I don’t), but solely because there are many parts of the world where they (and thus WE) would not be taken seriously. It isn’t about us, it is about how we represent ourselves to the rest of the world.

Pick a hard-ass guy, and combine him with a hard-ass SecDef, National Security Advisor and President, and we don’t have to worry about ANYONE screwing with us. Do this, and the Pax Americana returns (at least for a while).


31 posted on 11/23/2016 12:09:10 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: proust

LOL! I so enjoy your sense of humor!

Romney would be good at the VA, if he could reform it as he did so successfully the Olympics, but never will he be a trust worthy fit to TRUMP, for an out-of-country position, where he will likely be just as interested in globalizing Mormanism as to secure the interests of President TRUMP and the United States.


32 posted on 11/23/2016 12:09:23 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxists coming,... infinitum.)
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To: McGruff

I want someone other than Romney.


33 posted on 11/23/2016 12:10:52 PM PST by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
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To: McGruff

Im thinking about everyone I know personally (many thousands of peoples) and Im pretty sure everyone is better than putting the worlds leading anti-american pro-globalist elitist loser at Secretary of State.


34 posted on 11/23/2016 12:10:56 PM PST by Democrats hate too much
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To: McGruff

Oh Newt, you teamed up with piglosi for the bs climate crap, go away.


35 posted on 11/23/2016 12:12:57 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: McGruff

Trump is hiring Romney so he can fire Romney


36 posted on 11/23/2016 12:13:19 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: Navin Johnson

Hugh Hewitt determined that iCarly knows who the Health Minister of Dirkadirkastan is, and the President-Elect didn’t, So he needs help with that. Critically important information.


37 posted on 11/23/2016 12:15:10 PM PST by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: xzins

“I cannot think of a single good reason for Trump to nominate him.” >>

It better be for the purpose of good theater and psyops, because Romney is no real patriot compared to the number of others among the best and brightest.

TRUMP is trying to disarm the RINOS, who have destroyed the Republican Party certainly, and posed no threat whatsoever to the march of Marx in the USA.

RomneyCare = Mitt
Religious liberty nemesis on birth control, abortifacents = Mitt
Gay marriage in MA = Mitt

No. TRUMP will surely let this drop if it polls poorly enough.


38 posted on 11/23/2016 12:15:41 PM PST by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey! Public Education is the farm team for more Marxists coming,... infinitum.)
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To: McGruff

I guess this means Newt is out since he’s vocalizing dissent.

Anybody ever think that Trump is trying to get Romney in to forestall a primary challenge in 2020 from him?


39 posted on 11/23/2016 12:17:23 PM PST by Fhios (In the end Hillary, MSM, and Obama were beat by Trumps pure strategic genius.)
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To: McGruff

I agree. Romney is too milquetoast!


40 posted on 11/23/2016 12:17:25 PM PST by SuziQ
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