MITT & MATTIS AND THE COUP IS COMPLETE:

It's a perfect arrangement for Nikki Haley as well. She could become the Kellyanne Conway of Team Trump's global interface, earning regular credit for softening and humanizing the Boss's cruder and more dangerous pronouncements -- someone Trump haters can praise as an exception who proves the general rule of his bad character and unsteady views. In the longer run, this highly telegenic 44-year-old pol who has already given her party's response to the State of the Union Address and has made Veep short lists, will get the foreign-policy résumé line necessary to make her a national political figure for many years to come. I'd say the odds Haley will someday be a GOP presidential contender will go up to about 90 percent assuming she is confirmed for this very visible job.

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