Newt: I Will Nominate John Bolton For Secretary Of State-America's former ambassador to the UN

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

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Yes, that John Bolton.

In his speech, Gingrich took aim at Obama’s State Department, claiming under the command of Hillary Clinton it’s become an agency focused on “appeasing our opponents.”

Gingrich said Bolton be charged with cleaning that problem right up.

“I will only appoint him if he will agree that his first job is the complete and thorough transformation of the State Department and the replacement of the current foreign service culture with a new entrepreneurial and aggressive culture dedicated to the propositions that …defending America is the first business of the State Department.”

Read more: http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/12/newt-i-will-nominate-john-bolton-for-secretary-of-state-video.php

[msongs]

1. illegal to do this announcement? saw that in another recent post here on DU nt

[onehandle]

2. Newt, my fellow 'Georgian,' if I thought you really had a chance to be the nominee, I'd send you $.

Alas, it will be Mittens.

[tavalon]

33. Why would you send money to this fool?

[No Elephants]

37. ?

[Zorra]

3. Zorra: I will make sure Newt is not elected. nt

[Myrina]

4. And walruses everywhere would rejoice ...

Jus' sayin' ...

[madokie]

15. What a scary dude right there

[Swede Atlanta]

5. That is not the goal of the State Department......

The role of the Department of State is to manage our affairs with other nations. One component of their mission is to be eyes and ears and report back to Washington. It is also their mission to communicate America's position on matters of interest. But it is not the State Department's job to bully other nations or to defend America. That is why we have a DEFENSE Department Newt. You are more of a fucking mo4on than i thought.

[rtassi]

14. to say nothing of the fact that it isn't America that currently

requires defense ..

[Dont call me Shirley]

6. And John Negroponte as his VP.

[SteveM]

7. That should guarantee PermaWar, which is required for the other main GOPer...

goal: The Unitary Presidency.

Under a Unitary Presidency the executive can countermand and overrule any Constitutional right as long as he/she declares a "national emergency." And what is a "national emergency?" A time of war.

[Blasphemer]

8. Trying to get PNAC support?

Quayle endorsed Romney and establishment Republicans are not really getting behind Newt.

[kiranon]

42. Isn't Gingrich fronting for PNAC already? n/t

It sure sounds like it. Time will tell.

[Blasphemer]

44. I thought so but PNAC-er Quayle endorsed Romney so they must have concerns about Newt... nt

[JJW]

9. Newt to rehire all the war criminal from the Bush Administration,

that Obama let go free. Nancy Pelosi, is impeachment still off the table?

[newspeak]

41. bingo!!! and that's all we need to know

the junta will come back with a bang--and you think there's corruption now, they'll just finish off what they've started.

[hulka38]

10. Newt is a get out the vote agent for the Democratic Party.

[Major Hogwash]

26. ^ Post of the day right there!!!

Nobody, but nobody, would solidify the Democratic party faster than ol' Newty.

[MadMaddie]

30. Don't forget the Moderate Republicans

they hate Newt and Romney...

[Faygo Kid]

11. Madmen.

I can't imagine just how bad this nation and world would be with a President Gingrich.

I thought W. was bad - the worst, in fact. But Gingrich? If he's nominated, guess I will donate to Obama after all.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

12. And getting along peacefully with other world leaders is now called,

" appeasing our opponents."?
Arriving at mutual agreed upon solutions is no longer a goal?
Is all that I have been taught in my seventy years a lie?

[applegrove]

13. Maybe he can get Amadineajad to comply by chasing him down the hall of a hotel.

[gussmith]

16. The End For US

If Newt ever gets the chance to elect Bolton, the end will have come. We will simple be over with as wars dominate. Bolton (and Newt) are scary.

[Martin Eden]

17. Newt Gingrich is the Worst kind of Demagogue ...

... the kind that is slick enough to convince a lot of knuckleheads he's an erudite statesman, and cozy enough with The Powers That Be to get their endorsement.

[oldhippydude]

19. this has got to be

a dog whistle to the Christian Dominionists.. the Sarah / Isreal angle... pencil in an Iranian war (it's O.K. we will be seen as liberators)..

[julian09]

18. He would never be confirmed nt

[Matariki]

20. Oh Christ. When are these dinosaurs going to die and go extinct?

They've been fucking things up for how long now? A mass extinction is long overdue.

[Remember Me]

21. That idea alone ought to disqualify him from not only any and every

public office -- including dog catcher -- forevermore, but from all public platforms where more than 2 people can gather at once to listen to him. Bolton is seriously bad news (sociopathic, I suspect).

[MBS]

22. Birds of a feather, no surprise, but , still, wow. n/t

[McCamy Taylor]

23. OMG! Newt is a Neo-Con. Invade Iran and kiss the Sauds' ass is next on his agenda.

In Newt's world, the only good Shia will be a dead Shia. The only good oil will be oil pumped by a European or American compamy--except for that in Saudi Arabia.

So, has the WaPo come out in support of NeoCon Newt yet?

[McCamy Taylor]

25. Yes, Wa Po has already anointed Neo-Con Newt!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gingrich-emerges-as-clear-front-runner-in-iowa/2011/12/05/gIQAbWxNYO_story.html

[MadMaddie]

31. Oh you mean 2001? Groundhog day

He has no new policy just old failed trickle down bullshit theory...

[marasinghe]

24. so Trump may have his Xmas wish of running the Treasury, if Marshmallow Man gets in the White House.

GOP = outtakes from MAD TV's "Lowered Expectations - political edition"

[Zambero]

27. Yosemite Sam?

Yeah, THAT guy. Shoot first, ask questions later. And did Newt actually use the terms "entrepreneurial" and "defending America" in the same sentence? Sounds like Haliburton could be getting ready to stage a comeback in securing a few more juicy no-bid / no accountability defense contacts. Nice one Newt!

[Diclotican]

28. kpete

kpete

Yeah, he did a "great job" as ambassdor to the UN.. That was worse enough If you ask me.. As Secretary of State, he might speak US into open warfare with the rest of the world if he had a bad day... And that is a war even US canot win even with the nuclear arcenal US have today..

Diclotican

[Shoe Horn]

29. Another war monger who personally managed to avoid serving ... typical. (nt)

[wordpix]

32. that would be funny if it weren't so outrageous

:crazy: These repugs are completely nuts.

[opiate69]

34. So... when can we expect Newtie to get frogmarched?

"Any person....directly or indirectly promises or pledges the appointment...of any person....for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy shall be fined....or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Source: Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 29, Section 599 of the U.S.Code"

[bbgrunt]

35. well, if Blago can get 14 years for his efforts

at political influence trading, certainly Newty deserves no less.

[winstars]

36. Re-Elect Obama 2012!!!

Sorry but it's shit like this that makes me HAVE to vote for the prez and tell my friends to vote for the prez... All of the insults to progressive issues by the prez must be overlooked:

BECAUSE THE OTHER GUYS LOVE JOHN FUCKIN' BOLTON!!!!

All the Plan B pills, pipelines, wars; All of them have to be, must be, IMHO, forgotten because of the above, I hate it, I don't want to vote for someone does shit that is not progressive but-----

John Bolton, I GOTTA go the other way... I have too... John Bolton!!!! No thanks

[No Elephants]

39. So, this represents a change in position for you?

You intended to vote third party or stay home, but now you feel compelled to vote to re-elect Obama?

I never really got that from your previous posts.

[winstars]

43. No, I have always intended to vote for the prez again...

I guess I am talking to all the "primary him" people here. The idea of staying home or voting for a third party candidate is just stupid if you care about progressive causes. Like I said, Plan B pills, Keystone, and other disappointments will NEVER make me act against my own self interest. I want him to do ALL the progressive things he can do but I am a realist and know that sometimes I will be sad about one position or another this president takes. But to stay home or vote for a third party candidate has never entered my mind. That is how we got Shrub, thanks to Ralph Nader!!!

I have always felt compelled to vote for Obama and will, early and often

[Kablooie]

38. Yeah! No more appeasing our opponents. Let's antagonize them! WARWARWARWAR!!!! YEAH!

[No Elephants]

40. Antagonizing other nations has been our foreign policy for a long time, whether

Republicans do it or Democrats do it.

[karynnj]

45. The same John Bolton who could not get approved for UN ambassador in 2005 from a GOP controlled

Senate. There is NO way he could be confirmed unless the Republicans gain many seats in the Senate - and Gingrich wins.