After eight years of Clinton and that doofus Kerry being SOS, you will need a strong management type person rather than a strong diplomat.
The foreign staffs in the embassies are embedded progressives which will Need a strong arm to wrangle them in...
They actually do all the heavy lifting in negotiations...
Mitt would fit that bill, but I don’t trust him to implement Trumps policies...
I think Trump will surprise us with his pick...
I need Rudy to explain what happened to Building #7.
ABR Anybody But Romney
The bitch set him up.
Absolutely no Petreaus.
Let’s dispense with the celebrity component, and instead select an individual, unknown or otherwise, to best represent the Country.
Col Allen West. I love that man and he loves America.
Whoever the choice, I think the President-elect needs to make it very soon. The situation regarding the Secretary of State is becoming out of hand. Romney would be a huge disappointment to most of us who voted for Trump. Rudy made a mistake by wanting it so much that he publicly campaigned for it. I have no opinion about the other people who have been mentioned.
Trump is not in disarray.
Trump is necessarily drawing out the negotiation.
The MSM cries of transition chaos.
Coordinated effort to pressure Trump.
In play is the Mitt Chip for nixing the filibuster.
Trump is weighing the immediate vs. the 2018 plan to crush the GOPe Lindas.
Would be happy with Petraeus, and Romney seems like the worst possible choice, and Giuliani not much better, but my vote would go to Tulsi Gabbard:
1. Yes, a Dem, but she already sees exactly eye-to-eye with Trump on foreign policy (i.e. opposed to neoconservative endless wars, but ready to conclusively name and end Islamic extremism). By the way, the same can be said for exactly no one in the Republican foreign policy “establishment”, all of whom opposed Trump with their every breath, many of whom went to far as to endorse Hillary.
2. Takes her off the playing field for the Democrats and I happen to think she’s by far the best thing they have going right now.
3. Showed her integrity and courage when she stepped down from the DNC and called them out for rigging the primary, long before Wikileaks proved it.
4. Would reinforce the split between the Clinton and Sanders wings of the Democratic Party, and it’s in our interest to do whatever we can to keep stoking that fire for as long as possible.
5. Military vet
6. Appointing a woman of color to the top Cabinet post, a Democrat at that, would basically demolish a big part of the scaffolding of the “Trump = racist, sexist, bigot” narrative that we all know the left will hinge its opposition to Trump on.
RUDY! RUDY!
After eight years of so-called "progressive" ideology and semantics, the world needs to see and hear the real voice of America in its Secretary of State--that voice which can be identified with peace through strength, and, a consciousness of George Washington's Farewell Address warning:
"I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally."This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
"The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
"Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
"It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another." - Excerpts from George Washington's Farewell Address
I like Petraeus, I agree with the article. I’m still a bit miffed that he helped to cover Benghazi for Clinton. I think they had him over a barrel...
With a suitable explanation, he is no doubt a game-changer for that position.
Who's on First!
“My goal is to establish a foreign policy that will endure for several generations.
That is why I will also look for talented experts with new approaches, and practical ideas, rather than surrounding myself with those who have perfect resumes but very little to brag about except responsibility for a long history of failed policies and continued losses at war.”
- Donald Trump
A random pick from the local per-school before Romney
for SoS
Michael Savage
Yes.
And What for Department of Defense and I Don’t Know for Treasury.
Agree - I’ll accept whoever Trump tags as SOS and other positions but there are a few “favorites” in my private list. I just won’t get into the mode of trying to steer him. In fact, I’ve gone to his site and advised him to not listen to the flak and to just be true to himself - it’s what got him elected.
NO ROMNEY - PERIOD.
He is the perfect choice to be the next ambassador to Backstabbistan.