Sure, they rightly predicted that the Republicans would nominate a long-serving senator from the west who prided himself on being a maverick ready to buck the party line.
He nominates a long list of people whose careers were all but destroyed when they decided to take all of this seriously.
President Obama nominated a long-term Democratic lawmaker on Wednesday to run the obscure but powerful agency that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, signaling the administration's desire to preserve a substantial role for the government in the future of the housing market, people close to the White House said.
According to their own website, "anyone, including a fan, can nominate a celebrity as long as the celebrity or his/her management is in agreement with the nomination".
"There's definitely a feeling that it would be better to nominate a conservative of long-standing conviction," he said.
"There's definitely a feeling that it would be better to nominate a conservative of long-standing conviction," said Ralph Reed, a movement conservative who hardly ever finds an electable politician crazy enough for his tastes.
The White House announced this week that it will nominate Warren Pete Millerer, a long-time researcher and administrator at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Department of Energy's Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy.
He plans to nominate Jeff Holmstead, a long-time coal and oil lobbyist registered with the EPA, as his No. 2 sometime soon, Axios reported Monday.
"We have nominated a candidate," Mr. Long said.
As he made the appointment, Mr. Clinton complained about how Republicans had blocked his efforts to nominate an African-American to the long-vacant seat on the Fourth Circuit.
If there were Methodist saints, I doubt that anyone would nominate me after a long stint on Tristan de Cunha, but with a little blessing, I'd return peaceful, patient, prayerful, and, of course, tanned.
