Official: Cindy McCain eyed for senior State Dept. role

[bathroommonkey76]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) Cindy McCain, the wife of Republican Arizona Sen. John McCain, is expected to be offered a prominent role in the Trump administrations State Department, two individuals familiar with the discussions said Thursday.

Although it wasnt clear what position she would fill, one possibility under discussion is McCain serving as an ambassador-at-large in Washington, focusing on a specific issue such as human trafficking, according to the administration official and another individual familiar with the talks. McCain, a philanthropist and global humanitarian activist, has been a vocal advocate for victims of human trafficking for several years.

Both individuals said they werent authorized to speak on the matter ahead of a final decision and demanded anonymity.

Placing McCain in a State Department role would elevate the spouse of one of President Donald Trumps fiercest and most respected Republican critics on foreign policy, potentially diffusing tensions between Trumps administration and foreign policy conservatives. It could also strengthen ties between the State Department and Capitol Hill as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pushes sweeping cuts to the agency amid opposition from many lawmakers in Congress.

Read more: https://apnews.com/10f31799021749a7bda8caf6cd0eeb50/Official:-Cindy-McCain-eyed-for-senior-State-Dept.-role

[tanyev]

1. Guess that white pantsuit on election day didn't mean anything at all.

[SharonAnn]

12. Guess she's qualified becasue she's very wealthy.

[Freethinker65]

2. The maverick that never was will be no more

[leftynyc]

3. Bribing or repaying her daddy

for something. It couldn't possibly be more obvious.

[monmouth4]

4. Cindy is his wife. This would be an effort to shut McCain up..n/t

[leftynyc]

6. Right - brain freeze

At least the daughter is a pundit (a stupid pundit but whatever). This is a bribe for something. We'll know soon enough.

[Honeycombe8]

18. Yep. A payoff. nt

[dalton99a]

11. It worked for McConnell

[stuffmatters]

20. Yep, Trump's new way to bribe his powerful opponents into submissive silence.

Buy him off via the wife.
With McConnell it's the golden pot for him & his wife of trillion dollar+ infrastructure pot of gold (plus open fire sale of our Commons)
certainly enough to shut Mcconnell up and get him to use his position to menace successfully against release of
intelligence investigation info ag TrumpRussia during the campaign (and still)

The job being offered Cindy doesn't seem worth very much monetarily compared to that McConnell was bribed with.
The McCains should feel somewhat shortchanged.

[onetexan]

14. yeap, that's how i read it as well

plus it's another position held by a person of wealth. Shameful.

[Scarsdale]

5. Respected?

John McCain lost a lot of respect when he chose $arah PayMe as his VP. He flip flops so much he must have whiplash by now. So, now we will have two McCains on the government payroll, with GREAT healthcare and lots of $$$$. What happened to Calista Gingrich being ambassador to the Vatican? Do these people and their relatives EVER try working in the private sector anymore? Once they find out the perks of being on taxpayer payroll, they can not seem to cut themselves loose from it.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Pay to play. GOP playbook. nt

[Tom Rinaldo]

8. Yes. The position is Sheppard for Arizona Senator Affairs. n/t

[SunSeeker]

9. And her qualifications are what? Being rich and dabbling in philanthropy?

It seems her only qualification is that Trump thinks she can butter McCain up to support lifting Russia sanction.

If Trump knew anything about McCain, he'd know McCain never gave a shit what any of his wives thought.

[snooper2]

10. She can secretly learn inside information from other governments

She has changed a bunch over the past few years, she is now a GHOST!


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[lapfog_1]

29. X-ray woman

from "Bonfires of the Vanities"

[not fooled]

13. Minister of beer distribution?

isn't that where her $$$ came from?

Error-zona's contribution to the dumpster fire in DC.

Another "where do they get these people" appointment.

dump showing his contempt for government by filling it with irrelevant idiots.

[livetohike]

27. That's what I was thinking too,

[Dopers_Greed]

15. Chump is trying to silence his Repuke critics

By offering them and their family members cushy jobs

[JI7]

16. she may actually be good in this role but i feel

like its more about getting mccain to back off on the russia connection

[Alice11111]

24. Neutralize McCain,one of the few Repub critics he has to worry

about. It will probably neutralize his "joined at the hip buddy" Graham too. Yeah, she may be good at the job, but clearly this has nothing to do w Cindy McCain, and everything to do w John McCain. The timing will probably be perfect for the Senate Trumpcare bill, Russian collusion investigation....

DT is more shrewd than I thought he was, but this could be Bannon's idea. Of course, they strategize, who could cause us problems in the Senate? McCain. So, how can we get McCain to back off? Give his wife a chance at her own career. McCain won't ruin his wife's career. Bingo.

[jmowreader]

17. And the Religious Right loses its minds

The reason McCain was saddled with Palin was because of Cindy's beer distributorship: without a fundamentalist on the ticket they were staying home en masse. Now Trump chooses Cindy for a prime position in his government? Whoever upthread said this was about standing John down over Russia was probably correct, but from a strategic point of view this is a disaster. 2018 will be worse for the R's than in 2010 when Obama didn't give us our pony. Apparently Trump thinks giving his base a half ton of horse shit counts as a pony.

[Alice11111]

25. Seems to me his base loves horseshit.

[hatrack]

19. Deputy Assistant Secy. Of Shoplifting And Pills?

[adigal]

21. Ah, payback for McCain's silence on Trumputin and Russia

I got it now.
Nice white pantsuit, Cindy.
(I wish we could actually talk to these people and ask them WTF they are thinking???)

[kimbutgar]

22. Chump trying to bribe McCain to vote in his favor

I hope Cindy turns down the job, it will taint her forever.

[Demonaut]

23. I was hoping for Callista Gingrich

her hair is soooo..... helmet like

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Trying to keep McCain quiet, obviously.

[MFM008]

28. Attempted bribery?

Like McConnell.
This is how maggot operates.

[VigilantG]

30. Cindy McCain stole painkillers from her own charity years ago

Here is just one link to what transpired. Arizona court decided not to prosecute. If memory serves me correctly, it happened in 2008?

http://www.peele.net/blog/080613.html

[LyndaG]

31. Giuliani's son received a job

Guess his Dad couldn't accept a position in the Administration, possibly because he might have to be put under oath.

[WhiteTara]

32. McCain just sold another part of his soul to the GOP

and his payoff is that his wife will get to swill around in the public trough too.