re: #40 Joanne
This one makes even less sense because Petraeus was firmly entrenched and liked in GOP politics. He was one of the choices that the GOP actually lauded.
There’s a lot of 20/20 hindsight articles being written about how Petraeus was always a vain showoff, but back when he was picked the people who complained most were the far left.
He was a non-partisan choice that nearly everyone at the time thought was a good one.