Posted on 11/24/2016 7:30:25 PM PST by Innovative
Rival factions of Republicans are locked in an increasingly caustic and public battle to influence President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for secretary of state, leaving a prominent hole in an otherwise quickly formed national security team that is unlikely to be filled until next week at the earliest.
The debate inside Mr. Trump’s wide circle of formal and informal advisers — pitting supporters of one leading contender, Mitt Romney, against those of another, Rudolph W. Giuliani — has led to the kind of dramatic airing of differences that characterized Mr. Trump’s unconventional and often squabbling campaign team. And it traces the outlines of the enduring split in the Republican Party between establishment figures who scoffed at Mr. Trump’s chances of victory and the grass-roots insurgents who backed him as a disrupter of the Washington power structure.
The most publicly vocal faction has been the group opposed to Mr. Romney, which has questioned whether he would be loyal after his searing criticism of Mr. Trump during the campaign. But Mr. Trump himself has told aides that he believes Mr. Romney “looks the part” and would make a fine secretary of state, a senior Trump official said on Thursday. Mr. Trump, who is always difficult to read and is capable of changing his mind at any minute, has also praised Mr. Giuliani in recent conversations with acquaintances.
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if romney was fired he would be replaced by the person who should have had the job in the first place
Only neocons would want either of those scumbags.
While we’re pulling old has-beens into the running, Henry Kissinger is still breathing last I heard.
There is no division. Romney is a f**kn zer0. Not no, but hell no!
I don’t trust Romney either. I don’t see it happening.
I look the part but I’m not getting that position either.
Trump is chumming the water with Romney.
I think he has someone already in mind—possibly just a tad controversial—and wants to draw out the media first in order to gauge how to play it.
Fair enough.
I believe Trump does listen and learn on some issues. Perhaps a Mitt appointment will be one such case.
We know from Wikileaks that Haberman was essentially a Hillary operative.
Romney....NO, Guiliani, any post he wants.
My preference would be to not see Romney anywhere in the government in 2017. He spoke so badly of Trump that he shouldn’t be appointed anywhere, much less in lieu of someone else who is equally qualified. If for some unknown reason Romney simply has to be given a position, it should be an inconsequential one, certainly not SOS.
Call them what they are...the NY Slimes and the Washington Compost
Rudy Giuliani.
He’s the guy, and no way Romney. In fact, I have more than a small problem with the Mormon coups d’éta attempt to take over the “conservatives” and the right-wing digital and AM world.
Never Romney. No.
No Mitt, not now, not ever!
Not no but hell no!
[Mormon coups d’éta attempt]
Does MITT, a direct descendant to Joseph Smith, think he’s the guy on the White Horse?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Horse_Prophecy
ONLY GIULIANI. romney will be met with boos like you would not believe. Don’t get wobbly Donald!! Get these Rinos out of our party!!
Romney has one foot in the grave and another on the banana peel. Let him go. He signed his own death warrant.
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