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| Muzzle flash aficionado  |
Well--he is. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
I sure hope this turns out to be false or Trump plans on appointing him the Secretary Of Flying Rubber Dog Shit Out Of Hong Kong.  Romney To Meet Trump This Weekend, Reportedly To Discuss A "Potential Role" In The Administration | |||
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semi-reformed sailor |
not seeing this on the local news media....WRAL and points east..hmmmmmmmm I live in one of the blue counties in NC and I suspect that the same thing may have happened here. During early voting I saw many people I have never seen before. I had people stop me asking directions for the Board Of Elections (literally behind the parking lot I was standing in). My spidey sense was tingling. I'd love to see someone come investigate here. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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Why? Romney is a superb administrator/manager. Why not use him to further your own goals? I posted this early in this thread - August of last year actually, when the subject came up...
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
In the past I'd agree, because nobody reports on all the difficulties and minutia of negotiations but Trump has access to Twitter and other social media and uses it to a distinct advantage. Imagine being the thorn in his side when it comes to getting legislation passed and finding your name and position out there on twitter to 30 million people, then in the press, soon you're engaged in damage control over your position especially if your position is obstructive. One of the reasons for Trumps win was his ability to circumvent normal channels of communication and get right to the people with his message, without Twitter Hillary probably would have won the election with the press not covering the Donalds positive messages and his rally agenda. | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process  |
 Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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| hello darkness my old friend  |
I hope Trump puts Romney in his fucking place then tosses him out with tomorrows trash. | |||
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Striker in waiting |
That's what I was thinking. -Rob I predict that there will be many suggestions and statements about the law made here, and some of them will be spectacularly wrong. - jhe888 A=A | |||
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| Muzzle flash aficionado |
I am not Donald Trump and I am not in his position, nor do I have his history. I do believe he will do what is necessary to get the job done. flashguy Texan by choice, not accident of birth | |||
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| hello darkness my old friend |
Romney was willing to lose this election and that makes it a trust issue. I don't know how DJT could put him in charge of anything and not expect Romney to turn on him. | |||
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| wishing we were congress |
interesting Drudge headline and here is one of the few times that I thought David Axelrod was honest. A former senior adviser to President Obama defended President-elect Trump's transition operation on Thursday by saying the incoming Republican leader and his staff are moving at the same pace as Obama and his team in 2008 when he was tasked with putting together a government. "Lots of reasons to be concerned about [Donald Trump's] transition but the pace of announcements isn't one of them," David Axelrod, who worked as a chief strategist for Obama's presidential campaigns, wrote on Twitter. "That's not a fair shot," he added. http://www.washingtonexaminer....ress/article/2607686 Some pages back there is a post about how long it took Obama in 2008 to staff up and how disorganized that process was. Maybe Axelrod is thinking about the new political world. | |||
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I hope we don't lose Sessions from the Senate. This is the tool that would name his replacement. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley has formally released a statement denouncing Donald Trump as the Republican presidential candidate and vowing not to vote for him in the upcoming election. http://www.al.com/news/montgom...swoman_says_she.html | |||
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| Info Guru |
Don't you think Trump knows that? You can't get things done if you hold grudges. He will use Romney and will work with the democrat leadership to get what he wants. Watch and see. Keep your enemies closer.  “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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Tell her that lead is not an essential mineral.
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Lighten up and laugh |
Because how do you fight the GOP establishment when you are surrounding yourself with them in your administration? I understand having to work with them, but that doesn't mean you have to employee them to do so. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
Maybe Trump will do Romney like Obama did Hillary; give them the SecState position to keep them at arms length and put them in a position to where they can never again become disloyal? | |||
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A Grateful American |
Romney was willing to lose this election and that makes it a trust issue. I don't know how DJT could put him in charge of anything and not expect Romney to turn on him.[/QUOTE] Anyone who runs, if sane, has to be willing to lose. IMO, Romney thought he needed to be "mild and moderate" in order to not spook middle ground or rile up the left. He tossed aces hoping for a Royal flush and lost on that. If he had lain into the failing policies of Obama and the mishandling of many issues of foreign and domestic policy, and called out the Beltway crowd, he may have had some coal stoking firemen getting behind him and giving it their all. We know this, because that is exaclty what Trump did, and a over a year ago, when Trump started, I had several friends who were put off by Trump's brash and "offensive" manner. Milqutoast Romney never had a chance in a junkyard dog fight. Now, that said, he still has a good deal of background that might be very useful. Trump has been running a good game for most of his life. I am going to wait and see how he does. And for the record, I believe he has a damned good chance of getting many of the things his platform was constructed with, accomplished. But, We, the poeple... have got to stand behind him and keep his feet to the fire and shovel coal like it ain't been shoveled before. "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| Info Guru |
Actually, employing them is the best way to exert control over them. Read 'Team of Rivals' and study Trump's history. Why do you think he donated to democrat politicians? Do you think he did so because he agreed with their policies or because he needed politicians on his side in order to complete projects in states dominated by democrats? Trust the guy - he knows what he is doing. “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” - John Adams | |||
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| Live Slow, Die Whenever  |
Hes hiring anyone who might challenge him in 2020, not a bad idea but I dont think he has much to worry about.  I hope he hires Jeb for White House mens room attendant. "I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them." - John Wayne in "The Shootist" | |||
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| wishing we were congress |
I am in an admittedly optimistic mood. Hell, if you can't be optimistic now, when could you ever be optimistic ? So bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. will be hard and probably not as successful as we would like. But to date, no one in govt gave a crap. If Trump can get 1 or 2 companies to stay here or even bring a plant back, we could see a very powerful social force of 320 million Americans putting the heat on U.S. companies. Perhaps Trump may not need all his threats of penalty to make some of this happen. If the chicken shit NFL won't move to stop its players from kneeling during the national anthem, maybe some social pressure 10 or 100 times greater than that may give some CEOs pause. | |||
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