Is Huntsman tough enough?
Gov. Jon Huntsman is being scrutinized as one of a handful of up-and-coming Republican leaders who can lead the party back from disaster. Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic online reminds the nation's political wonks that Huntsman is a extremely wealthy Mormon who has the potential to raise serious campaign money should he decide to run for president in 2012.[Huntsman] is celebrating his status as the governor of the country's best-managed state, and as the successor to Sarah Palin — remember when Palin claimed the highest approval ratings among governors in the country? That distinction belongs to Huntsman, who rates at 90%.Meanwhile, GOP12, a conservative blog following the journey to the 2012 presidential election, is less complimentary of Huntsman's innovative ideas:
Huntsman wants to be seen as a conservative problem solver who applies conservative principles to finding solutions to today's issues.
. . .how the hell the most popular governor in the most conservative state in the nation can get away with talking up global warming incessantly.This year will be a acid test of Huntsman's leadership. Yes, he's a diplomat who speaks Mandarin, but governing in hard times requires back-slapping and eye-gouging skills that Jon has yet to demonstrate.
Is there something about greenhouse gas concentrations in the Book of Mormon we missed?
This is like the Governor of Vermont spending 20 minutes in his biggest speech of the year promoting creationism.
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Huntsman is a McCain Rino! Repub in name only!
Craig Obbermann is the exact cause and reason why the Republican party will continue to languish.
Please enlighten us Craig, with your "true" Republican ideas and solutions for today's ever-complicated world. Let me guess....more tax cuts (that's worked great, huh), running the illegals out and putting the gays in their place?
I am so sick and tired of brain dead Ditto-heads spouting off. The current Republican party with its far right and evangelical base deserve to go the way of the Whigs.
I can dream, right!?
All that being said, Huntsmen is a good governor and the Republicans could, and WILL, do much, much worse. It would be nice to have a reasonable, successful candidate on the Republican ticket for once. But I'm guessing they'll keep choosing Caribou Barbie-types and keep scratching their head as to why they lost.
It's just too funny!
Dan B. is full of shit!
If you allow American families to keep more of their hard-earned money and provide businesses incentives to create jobs and you decrease spending at the federal level, you grow the economy! Huntsman has shown a propensity to govern using the Tax and spend philosphy of the Democrats! He is definitely a RINO!
"Huntsman has shown a propensity to govern using the Tax and spend philosphy [sic] of the Democrats!" Is that as opposed to the 'borrow from the Chinese and give the money to our rich friends on Wall Street' philosophy of the Rethugs? As Dan B. said, that sure has worked great, eh? Or is the economic crash all Hillary Clinton's fault too? For being the manly-man, gun-luvin', queer-bashin', immigrant-hatin' party, every rethug I read and hear sure is a whiner.
So why did Jon Huntsman Jr. endorse Senator Curt Bramble when Bramble was being challenged by a more ethically oriented Republican way back in April of 2008?
Endorse Brambojevich one minute; tout the need for ethics the next.
A person could get whiplash from trying that at home.
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