Jon Huntsman

[TalonStrike]

This guy has recently said that Iowa doesn't matter and endorsements don't matter. This guy makes no sense. He's at like 1% in the polls and he's somehow gets to decide what does and doesn't matter. He has no chance of winning New Hampshire. What is he even doing in this race.

 

[fskimospy]

I wonder if his candidacy would have been different if he hadn't been the ambassador to China. Obama neutralized him pretty perfectly when Huntsman decided to go work for the Great Satanic Kenyan Muslim Black Communist Fascist.

 

[soundforbjt]

He's betting on a VP slot, IMO.

 

[bfdd]

They don't matter, but people think they do.

 

[cganesh75]

Obama should dump biden and run with Huntsman

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

That's because this primary doesn't matter. It's a trial run. He's positioning himself for a 2016 run as a sane, reasonable Republican. As such, expect his numbers to be low with the current Republican base, and don't expect too much pandering to raise them.

And don't expect any VP pick other than Marco Rubio this run.

 

[Lemon law]

Huntsman is probably too liberal to be acceptable to the extreme right of the GOP, and what's worse, Huntsman is a Morman, which is even worse for the religious right.

But in terms of the general election of 11/2012, and IMHO, Huntsman may now be the only remaining GOP candidate that can appeal to conservative democrats and independents and hence be electable. The same cannot be said of Mitt Romney, who blew all of credibility by becoming the born again incredible plastic man in 2008. In terms of Romney, the GOP can't trust a flip flopper and either can independents.

And now that the eyes of nation turn to to New Hampshire this coming Tuesday, Huntsman may get around 10% of the votes, and probably will get more votes than Santorum.

The right wing of the GOP may make the most noise and inspire the GOP leadership. But the vast bulk of GOP voting electorate is far more centrists than extreme right wing. And when voting numbers are the only thing that matter in political primaries, it explains why McCain won the GOP primary in 2008. While all the extreme right wing 2008 GOP candidates crashed and burned fairly early in the primary season.

In New Hampshire Mitt is expected to get 43% of the Votes, leaving everyone behind in the dust. And if the GOP wakes up early and majority says, anyone other than Mitt, Huntsman may start to look better.

 

[airdata]

Obama should dump biden and run with Huntsman

Wouldn't be a bad idea...

 

[sunzt]

Once people realize that Santorum is this year's Huckabee then Huntsman's turn should be next...

 

[nageov3t]

what are all these liberal and democratic positions of Huntsman's?

outside of not being willing to call Obama a socialist nazi, he seems pretty run of the mill Republican to me.

he probably picked a bad year to run, but maybe it's just setting the groundwork for 2016... his only real hope was if someone like Perry won the nomination and wanted a VP who'd appeal to independents.

 

[Thump553]

Calling Santorum this year's Huckabee is a gross insult to Huckabee. Santorum is a meglomaniac like Gingrich, only far less intellectual and far more authoritarian doctrine bound.

And Huntsman is correct-the winner in the GOP Iowa caucus got just over 25,000 votes, the equivalent of a middle size town.

 

[Lemon law]

Calling Santorum this year's Huckabee is a gross insult to Huckabee. Santorum is a meglomaniac like Gingrich, only far less intellectual and far more authoritarian doctrine bound.

And Huntsman is correct-the winner in the GOP Iowa caucus got just over 25,000 votes, the equivalent of a middle size town.

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Get it right Thump, Romney polled 30,015 votes in Iowa out of about 120,000 votes cast. Jon Huntsman only pulled in 745 votes in Iowa, or a little more than 1/2 of 1%. But with Huntsman expected to do about 20X better in New Hampshire while all other GOP contenders other than Romney expected to come crashing back to earth, the new Romney strategy is to wrap up the GOP primaries by 1/31/2012.

Leaving the only anyone but Romney folks in the GOP, looking at crunch time. If they want to stop Romney, Huntsman is their only real hope. Point granted they would rather have a GOP righty tighty as their nominee, but no one else can qualify.

 

[Sonikku]

Didn't he have the audacity to actually work with Obama to get things done? That's pretty much a cardinal sin of the grand old party.

 

[werepossum]

Huntsman is probably too liberal to be acceptable to the extreme right of the GOP, and what's worse, Huntsman is a Morman, which is even worse for the religious right.

But in terms of the general election of 11/2012, and IMHO, Huntsman may now be the only remaining GOP candidate that can appeal to conservative democrats and independents and hence be electable. The same cannot be said of Mitt Romney, who blew all of credibility by becoming the born again incredible plastic man in 2008. In terms of Romney, the GOP can't trust a flip flopper and either can independents.

And now that the eyes of nation turn to to New Hampshire this coming Tuesday, Huntsman may get around 10% of the votes, and probably will get more votes than Santorum.

The right wing of the GOP may make the most noise and inspire the GOP leadership. But the vast bulk of GOP voting electorate is far more centrists than extreme right wing. And when voting numbers are the only thing that matter in political primaries, it explains why McCain won the GOP primary in 2008. While all the extreme right wing 2008 GOP candidates crashed and burned fairly early in the primary season.

In New Hampshire Mitt is expected to get 43% of the Votes, leaving everyone behind in the dust. And if the GOP wakes up early and majority says, anyone other than Mitt, Huntsman may start to look better.

It's been a long time since credibility was necessary or even advantageous in a politician. Romney will do just fine, although I like Huntsman even better. As far as New Hampshire, South Carolina will give the social conservatives new life - we're very conservative in the South.