General David Petraeus appeared with Clinton sycophant George Stephanopoulos on ABC This Week this Sunday morning. The appearance was called his final audition for Secretary of State in the coming Donald Trump administration. It was a sad fail for the disgraced General and former CIA chief.

I held my nose to watch the ABC program hosted by Stephanopoulos. I was once a huge fan of General Petraeus. I was sad to learn that he had feet of clay, but hoped that there was some explanation. Not that there is any credible explanation for sharing government information with your side dish.

General Petraeus sad and pathetic excuse for sharing confidential information with his mistress Paula Broadwell is that he made a mistake. Well, okey dokey. Not! Sorry, General Petraeus but you were tasked with the lives of our United States treasure. You held the top security clearance. You are a four star General. “I made a mistake” doesn’t cut it. Sell that somewhere else.

Or, as Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters told Time magazine for its November, 2012 article, “The Rise and Fall of ‘General Peaches'”

Ralph Peters is another blunt-speaking retired Army officer and author. “When a man becomes more reputation than substance, his reputation had better be invulnerable,” he said of Petraeus’ plight. “Every successful man has encountered at least one Paula Broadwell. The smart ones don’t take her calls.”

There was something else that really frosted my cookies. He repeated twice that in the last four years he has traveled to forty countries. Well whoopdie freaking do. Hillary Clinton traveled to over 120 countries. I understand that travel broadens the mind, but what did you accomplish, Peaches?

From the This Week transcript:

What I would say to them is what I’ve acknowledged for a number of years. Five years ago, I made a serious mistake. I acknowledged it. I apologized for it. I paid a very heavy price for it and I’ve learned from it. And, again, they’ll have to factor that in and also obviously 38-and-a-half years of otherwise fairly in some cases unique service to our country in uniform and then at the CIA and then some four years or so in the business community during, which I’ve continued to travel the world nearly 40 countries in that time as well.

Petraeus repeated the travel line two times! It doesn’t matter how much you travel. It matters what you do. It matters what you accomplish. Violating your marriage vows. Violating your oath of office. Violating your security clearance. None of these are good. They are really bad.

Watch the video for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWoG5MOsVGs

I think it would be a really “YUGE” and “Bigly” mistake to offer the position of Secretary of State to General David Petraeus. Sad to watch him fall. Sadder to offer him the top of the mountain again.