If one needs a reminder of how classy Hillary Clinton is.

[RandySF]

DEER VALLEY, UTAH — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney revealed on Friday that Hillary Clinton encouraged him to consider serving as President Donald Trump’s secretary of state.

Romney, appearing before a group of major Republican Party donors here, said that he reached out to Clinton last year after getting a phone call from then-Vice President-elect Mike Pence informing him that he was on the shortlist for secretary of state.

The 2012 GOP nominee said he was “shocked” to receive the overture. Throughout the 2016 campaign, he had been one of Trump’s most strident critics.

Romney, who was golfing in Hawaii when he received the call, said he told Pence at first that he would have to think about it. He then turned to former secretaries of state, including the just-defeated Clinton, to ask whether he should consent to the offer.

“In each case, each of them said, ‘Please, please take that job if it’s offered to you. We’d very much like to see you serve in that capacity,’” Romney said.


http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/09/mitt-romney-hillary-clinton-secretary-state-trump-239370

[GoCubsGo]

1. Or, did she just understand how toxic Trump is,

and want to pre-empt another Romney presidential run by trying to get him to taint himself?

Yes. I am cynical. More likely, she and others thought he was a bit of sanity in an otherwise gigantic pile of corruption and lunacy. Better him than Rexxon Tillerson.

[dflprincess]

2. I had the same thought.

One has to wonder why Mittens would have even entertained the thought for more than a few seconds. Anyone with half a brain and an ounce of integrity would have dropped the phone and ran in the opposite direction if Trump called.

[GoCubsGo]

14. "Anyone with...a half an ounce of integrity..."

Yep. This was just a reminder that Mitt lacks it, as well.

[Renew Deal]

5. You're right to be cynical, but for a differnet reason

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Romney looks completely sane and ethical compared to Trump and his band of Russians. Even DUers were hoping he'd get the job.

[GoCubsGo]

13. That was actually what I was thinking.

Trump makes the less-heinous republicans, like Romney, Haley, Hatch, etc. seem same and decent, when they are almost as awful. Some are falling for it. I want Trump smeared all over the whole lot of them.

[Ilsa]

8. The latter.

She knew Tillerson would tear apart the State Dept in favor of making deals for trump, himself, rosneft, exxon, etc., and that rmoney would know more about running the dept to keep the US from developing an isolationist policy. Yes, sanity. A grown-up.

Considering the possibility of his service was an act of patriotism by both HRC and Mitt Romney.

[Me.]

3. Don't Need A Reminder

But thank you anyway

[LisaM]

4. She probably knows that Mitt Romney, at the very least,

has no desire to get us into WWIII. And, I think he would have resisted a wall. He has a number of relatives in Mexico.

[Thinkingabout]

6. Hillary is classy

[JI7]

7. Trump was just using it to get back at him for the criticism

the public dinners and other shit . and his demands that romney apologize which he didn't .

[Alice11111]

9. DT wanted to neuter him, so MR could no longer effectively take a stand against him. Plus, DT enjoye

the sadistic collateral benefit.

[tinrobot]

10. He was the sanest choice of the bunch.

For the sake of the country, of course she'd want him to take the job.

[world wide wally]

11. She is a true patriot above all... and a great humanitarian

[customerserviceguy]

12. She fixed

Huma Abedin up with Anthony Wiener, too. Maybe she's not that good at political matchmaking.

[athena]

15. Do you have any evidence to back up that extremely sexist statement?

Just because HRC is an older woman and Abedin is a younger woman who works for HRC, and Abedin married a politician does not mean HRC had anything to do with it.

We have a great stateswoman with a long history of serving her government, and she gets reduced to a "political matchmaker". No wonder the people of this country couldn't elect her in a landslide to lead them. Too many people are still too caught up in sexist ways of thinking to deserve such an honest and hard-working public servant.

[customerserviceguy]

16. Sorry, I thought it was common knowledge

that Hillary wanted the two of them together, even though they didn't hit it off at first. I know I've read that, but trying to Google search a source is completely obscured by more recent developments between the couple.

And is it sexist just because I said that Hillary was the one who thought it was a good idea?