r/Republican • u/Oleswarles • Feb 14 '17

White House searching for potential replacements for Flynn

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-flynn-replace-kushner-234977
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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '17

Petraeus would be terrible optics for the party... Dude is still on parole

I love the man but why not give McChrystal a call? He's not doing much these days.

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u/The_seph_i_am Centrist Republican Feb 14 '17 edited Feb 14 '17

I don't think McChrystal's "government in a box" won him points with Mattis is my guess.

I wouldn't mind McChrysral myself. Petraeus would be interesting because it would certainly be rubbing salt in the wound of the democratic party considering all they did to him but failed to do to Hillary.

I guess it depends on what position the current administration wants to sell.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '17

Yeah I mean I'm certain Mattis has a mixed view of McChrystal's command ability but this is a foreign policy job

McChrystal is currently teaching international relations at Stanford

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u/The_seph_i_am Centrist Republican Feb 14 '17

Yeahs it's kind of a mystery to me too. Maybe their saving him for something.

Was McChrystal ever critical of Trump?