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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShould Joe find a place in his administration for Cindy McCain?
She would probably pass but I think he should at least ask her.
If Joe does pull out Arizona, I think she gets some of the credit.
I think she is a Democrat but I could be wrong.
catbyte
(34,386 posts)Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)Or perhaps on some executive committee for a cause she is passionate about.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Plus, she seems like an ambassador type, circumspect and apparently smart.
kskiska
(27,045 posts)Newt will be moving out soon.
was going to be my answer.
RockRaven
(14,966 posts)He should find places for people dedicated to his agenda above all.
No token appointments.
madaboutharry
(40,211 posts)Also, they are very close personal friends.
RockRaven
(14,966 posts)and friendship. Biden needs to reestablish (or establish, depending on one's level of cynicism about history) that appointments are business, not personal.
JI7
(89,249 posts)RockRaven
(14,966 posts)We ignore that chasm at our peril. At best it's an invitation for a corporate media shitshow when she fails to back him up in a high profile moment. At worst you're courting subversion. At either extreme or in between, no thanks.
LeftInTX
(25,328 posts)There is nothing wrong with naming Cindy McCain and ambassador...
This is a non political position
SharonAnn
(13,773 posts)LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)Ambassador to Ireland.
Autumn
(45,084 posts)of qualified Democrats to chose from
JI7
(89,249 posts)Autumn
(45,084 posts)I don't have to share his Republican friends. She endorsed Biden because Trump insulted her dead Republican husband, had he not done that she would have endorsed Trump.
JI7
(89,249 posts)helped to defeat McCain during the Presidential election in 2008 . They have been friends even before Trump came along .
Autumn
(45,084 posts)to administration posts? I thought I remembered seeing and agreeing with the notion that Dems were better than that.
JI7
(89,249 posts)Autumn
(45,084 posts)family?
JI7
(89,249 posts)and the rest of the Trump Trash.
Autumn
(45,084 posts)on that. There is not a single Republican public persona that I consider to be decent. Not one. They are all self serving assholes who care nothing for others or their country.
JI7
(89,249 posts)grandkids .
But if she wants some ambassadorship type job then that would be fine.
WhiteTara
(29,715 posts)mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)Autumn
(45,084 posts)mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)Autumn
(45,084 posts)Their endorsements meant nothing to me. If Pence were the President they and she would have endorsed him.
mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)Autumn
(45,084 posts)endorsement. There are any number of qualified Democrats. You dance with the one who "brung you". We brought him to the dance.
mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)Autumn
(45,084 posts)mtnsnake
(22,236 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,083 posts)Tyrs WolfDaemon
(2,289 posts)I'm sure he'd love to know that she'd be in charge of his new digs. She can probably even do it from wherever she wants to, with all the work from home stuff now. Hell, they could give her some buttons to press that do little stupid things in and around his cell just to let him know that she's watching, or that the cat is walking on the keyboard (assuming she has a cat. I'm sure someone would lend her a cat, just so that it could press those buttons for her).
Blue Owl
(50,373 posts)Due to tRump-era budget cuts
Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)After FOUR years of an American dictator, members of our own party are already demanding purity at a time when we better continue working on a bigger tent. NEWS FLASH People! Without the Senate, we're not getting much accomplished! That includes confirming the Biden Harris Cabinet!
Stupid.
Autumn
(45,084 posts)a Republican to the Biden Harris administration. NEWS FLASH People! Fuck that.
Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)One cannot help but to remember the hatchet job Autumn did on Hillary just a few years ago! Clearly learned NOTHING! One of these days people will learn that when EVIL gets 68 MILLION VOTES - There is a problem and it ain't Biden's rhetoric! It's Autumns! Well FUCK THAT!
milestogo
(16,829 posts)crickets
(25,979 posts)helpisontheway
(5,008 posts)Plus she keeps saying over and over that she is a Republican. She supported Biden because Trump is evil. Plus Biden is a family friend and as she said a good man. However, she does not agree with Biden on issues. And thats fine. Im glad she helped him.
ecstatic
(32,704 posts)I do not want another trump style regime where friends are given cushy cabinet jobs. Fck that!
I want competence and order!
melman
(7,681 posts)oasis
(49,386 posts)Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)It will take more than the democratic party to fix this. I wish more people got that.
Autumn
(45,084 posts)Yeah that's the ticket!
Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)Simple including Cindy McCain as an olive branch is smart strategy, it's how we got Mark Kelly into the Senate. It will be accepted as Presidential, something this country desperately needs.
We've got a real problem coming as well with the Biden cabinet. Anyone who believes that Mitch is going to confirm Biden's preferred cabinet is foolish. This is going to be a fight and someone like Cindy McCain could sail through and probably help Biden get a few more liberal members through with her.
Coalition.
Chess.
Sgent
(5,857 posts)I like an ambassadorship or maybe director of USAID (she's been involved with overseas health initiatives for decades).
Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)It's about building bridges and mending relationships. Fast.
renate
(13,776 posts)Why not? She seems like a good person.
Ambassadorships (most of them) are usually distributed as thank-yous, so this wouldnt be unusual, and she has a lot of in-the-room political experience anyway.