{"id":18169,"date":"2016-11-25T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18169"},"modified":"2016-11-25T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T15:16:09","slug":"mitt-emerges-as-state-contender-trumpkins-are-furious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18169","title":{"rendered":"Mitt emerges as State contender; Trumpkins are furious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mitt Romney’s emergence as a top contender for secretary of state in the Trump administration makes me chuckle.<\/p>\n

I might even laugh out loud if Mitt actually gets the call from the president-elect.<\/p>\n

Mitt said some pretty harsh things about Donald J. Trump during the election. He called him a “fraud,” a “phony”; he questioned whether Trump was hiding criminal activity by refusing to release his tax returns; he said Trump University demonstrated Trump’s lack of real business acumen.<\/p>\n

Now the 2012 Republican presidential nominee is being vetted for the top job a State.<\/p>\n

Trumpkins are upset about it. They don’t want this man speaking for the president on foreign policy. They distrust him.<\/p>\n

If the 2012 GOP nominee hadn’t said those things about the 2016 nominee, then I would be all for Mitt joining the Trump team. You see, given Trump’s absolute absence of any government experience — at any level — someone such as Mitt could be seen as a leavening influence. After all, he did serve one term as governor of Massachusetts. What’s more, Mitt has considerable exposure to foreign heads of government. Isn’t\u00a0he a BFF with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu?<\/p>\n

A part of me understands the angst that’s boiling up within the ranks of true-blue Trumpkins.<\/p>\n

Mitt could be an asset to the Trump team. Except that he did deliver that blistering — and in my view accurate — critique of the president-elect during the campaign.<\/p>\n

Which version of Mitt would Trump hire if he chose him to run the State Department?<\/p>\n\n

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Mitt Romney’s emergence as a top contender for secretary of state in the Trump administration makes me chuckle. I might even laugh out loud if Mitt actually gets the call from the president-elect. Mitt said some pretty harsh things about Donald J. Trump during the election. He called him a “fraud,” a “phony”; he questioned … Continue reading Mitt emerges as State contender; Trumpkins are furious<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[609,1424,3101,4398],"class_list":["post-18169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","tag-bibi-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-mitt-romney","tag-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18171,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions\/18171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}