vyshka
5607
What the hell is the deal with George and Kelly Anne? If I truly felt like George appears to about Trump, there is no way I could stay in a marriage with Kelly Anne.
Eh, it was certainly true (checks calendar) 15 days ago when I wrote that post that you’re responding to today.
Yah. Was searching for Graham and it was the most recent post…
CraigM
5611
Well you couldn’t find Graham because he is buried so far up Trumps ass as to be indistinguishable from a bowel movement.
I appreciate the precedent, but they both struck me as having the integrity to live with one another. I don’t understand how anyone with two brain cells to rub together sees Kellyanne Conway as anything other than an enabler for an existential threat to the United States. I don’t know about George, but I’m pretty sure those would be grounds for me to break up with someone.
-Tom
My take is Kellyanne is a mercenary. To marry one, you likely need the same outlook so I take George’s commentary with more than a grain of salt.
Yeah I’ve always felt like she was like Jennifer Barkley on Parks and Rec.
I don’t think George is pleased with his wife’s professional decisions, but he’s apparently tolerating them. I do think George Conway’s viewpoints regarding DJT are very sincere.
Canuck
5617
The most amazing sex in the world.
If the U.S. isn’t reduced to a pile or radioactive dust by the time Trump is banished from government Kellyanne is going to write a multi-million dollar advance memoir about her time with Trump. Maybe George just wants a piece of that in the settlement?
George Conway was on Stay tuned with Preet a few weeks ago. He was asked briefly about his wife, and basically said “Don’t go there”, which Preet respected. George then went on to advice ALL people that are enabling Trump that - unless it was a matter of national security where they had to stay in their post - that they should quit immediately. When Preet pressed “All of Trump’s staff?” George was pretty adamant about EVERYONE.
So yeah, I think he’d love it if his wife quit.
magnet
5621
Carville and Matlin profess completely different political values. They made it work. My guess is that they love the business of politics more than the philosophy, so they actually have a lot in common.
George Conway and his wife are both right wingers. They both want the same thing for America. George Conway just happens to hate his wife’s boss, and thinks he is a crook. Presumably, he and his wife disagree about whether Trump is the most effective person to get more tax cuts for the rich and more easily exploit the poor.
Imagine your spouse worked for some jerk. Apparently, he is possibly involved in some illegal activity. Maybe his name was Rod Blagojevich. Would you leave your spouse for that reason alone, assuming your values are otherwise the same?
I wouldn’t. I would beg her to quit, and warn her to protect herself. I would tell everyone I know that my wife works for an idiot. But I wouldn’t leave my wife just because I hated her boss. Especially if she secretly hated him too.
Re: “Anonymous” getting a book deal. This guy is at best useless. At this point the country doesn’t need more anonymous sources tut-tutting about Trump’s rambunctiousness off the record. It will have zero effect. We need people willing to put their asses on the line with specific evidence, like Taylor and the whistleblowers.
And Anonymous is probably a scam artist. What could be easier than putting together a collection of unsourced, vague cocktail party rumors about Trump’s bad behavior, stuffing it together into a book, and hiding behind anonymity? Anyone could do it.
Anonymous claims that they’re donating part of the proceeds to charity. I’m not sure why anyone should believe a member of the Trump Administration’s claims about charity donations, but the revenue from the book is beside the point. Anonymous’s plan is transparent: when the whole rotting structure collapses, they’re going to leap from the wreckage, claim “I was one of the good ones!” and use the editorial and book to get their Perilschein.
Agree with all of that. “Anon” can go fuck himself.
Yup. They care more about their bank account than their country.
Given the scrutiny applied to his/her op-ed, I have to wonder how much would be revealed in a whole book. Romney’s Pierre Delecto account was sussed out by one woman who took the time to comb through the Tweets. I wonder if a whole book would provide enough information for the Internet to reveal the author. I mean, there can’t be more than, what?, a hundred candidates?
But, yeah, screw that guy/gal. There’s a certain kind of cowardice in acknowledging a problem, but not being brave enough to come out against it.
George Conway strikes me as a principled conservative. He’s not a Republican for a reason. Kellyanne, on the other hand, has no principles, no political values beyond the cult of personality she actively promotes. She lies on Trump’s behalf. Those aren’t political values. They’re the opposite. She’s a morally bankrupt and horrible human being.
Well, the stakes are higher than George Conway hating his wife’s boss, and he’ll say as much. I would have no trouble being in a relationship with someone who worked for a dickwad I hated. My problem would be a relationship with someone actively furthering an agenda as deplorable as Trump’s. In other words, I couldn’t be in a relationship with someone who approved of keeping kids in cages, getting Kurds killed, or normalizing right-wing hatred.
But this is all academic. Who knows what goes on with those two? I’m just saying I wouldn’t be able to do it, so I don’t understand how George Conway does it.
-Tom
Tim_N
5626
The anonymity doesn’t bother me so much, the whistleblower who made the complaint doesn’t want their identity revealed either. Witnesses to any crime would prefer their identity hidden as witnesses sometimes get killed in the US. I mean, just a couple of weeks ago Qt3 thoroughly condemned Matt Taibbi for saying that the anonymous whistleblower needs to publicly reveal themselves to be considered a real whistleblower.
What gets me is that this guy/girl is still working at the WH? If you’re working there, you really better be doing something better to sabotage the administration than writing an anonymous book, otherwise there’s no moral vindication.
Wow.
If you’re not able to distinguish between someone anonymously writing warnings about the Trump Administration for profit and a whistleblower availing themselves of a process and law that protects them while serving a valuable function for the public good by acting through proper channels to raise a flag…I just don’t know what to tell you.
This is not a good take, Tim.
