Caller Bob wrote:
It will be a moderate Republican, not a Democrat.
I think it is telling just how much the Democrats demonize ANY woman Republican. Kellyanne Conway is the latest victim.
Poor Conway. Always being attacked for openly campaigning for a more prestigous spot in Trump's administration, even if it means violating ethics rules or brazenly lying on national television.
She’s taking a long view in her bid to rise in the White House ranks — and she’s performing for an audience of one: President Donald Trump.
And so while critics may squawk, what matters most to Conway is that Trump sees her defending him on national television.
For Conway, the prize for loyalty is eventually landing a spot as chief of staff, becoming the first woman ever to hold the role and cementing her spot at the center of Trump’s inner circle.
As Conway sees it, she already has more: “All you need to know is that I have the ear and confidence of one person,” Conway said.
"I have ‘walk-in’ privileges,” she said, claiming she’s among the few who can enter the Oval Office without being summoned.
In her attempt to do Trump's bidding, she may have crossed one of the people closer to Trump than herself — Ivanka Trump. A source close to Trump said that his daughter scolded Conway for dragging her brand into an ethics mess and told her not to mention it again on TV. This was a continuation of a conversation that Ivanka Trump had with her father weeks earlier about leaving her business out of the politics, a conversation that Conway wasn't aware of.
Trump, for his part, thought the word "counseled," used by Spicer at the press briefing, was "terrible," and said Conway's statement was just a continuation of his own sentiments, according to someone in the room.
"Why would you use that word? Whose idea was that?" Trump asked Spicer after the press briefing, the source said.
In recent weeks, Conway hit meme-level mockery for thrice referencing the “Bowling Green Massacre” — despite there being no such thing. (Conway says she misspoke in referencing the arrest of bomb-makers in Kentucky who were responsible for no domestic terror.)
CNN also openly questioned whether it wants to have her on air, citing her credibility. Privately, a producer from another network noted that that network is reevaluating how valuable a guest such as Conway is, considering it's not clear she's in the room when decisions are being made. "We've been more selective on who we have on from the administration. The decision makers are Reince Priebus, Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon; we should be focusing on those guys," the producer said.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/k ... ame-234935