That made me laugh so much that it actually hurt.
Huntsman spent his entire political career as a Republican establishment butt boy. He apparently liked so much that he later bent over and took it from the China Lobby.
Nothing Libertarian about him.
Oops...wrong libertarian ;)
That made me laugh so much that it actually hurt.
Huntsman spent his entire political career as a Republican establishment butt boy. He apparently liked so much that he later bent over and took it from the China Lobby.
Nothing Libertarian about him.
Glad you had a good laugh on me...
However, he does lean Libertarian...
Here ya go...
Eh, this is libertarian and HE said it...
“In my party, compromise cannot be seen as analogous to treason, which it has been recently,” he said. “You will have to have some compromise built in, and perhaps even on the marginal rates going up for a certain income category. My going-in position would be: Let’s work on phasing out all the deductions and loopholes. There is a trillion dollars there. Let’s see where that leaves us and move forward before you start willy-nilly raising taxes.”
This might seem like the policy bulwark of an increasingly centrist-minded Republican. Huntsman announced on Wednesday that he was joining No Labels, a nonpartisan group hoping to drum up support for bi- or post-partisanship. But in discussing the future of the GOP and how it adjusts to the country’s changing demographics, he insisted Republicans “don’t need to shift our ideology,” just rediscover that “LIBERTARIAN streak.”
Take, for instance, gay marriage:
“States ought to be entitled to do whatever they want,” he said.
Or government spending:
“We weren’t coming from a position of strength [in 2012],” he said. “We sounded like hypocrites talking about spending when that was all we did under George W. Bush.”
Or foreign policy:
“We used to be the party that put out wars: Eisenhower, Korea; Nixon, Vietnam; Reagan, the Cold War. And here we talk about starting wars. That’s all Republicans on the defense side seem to want to talk about — not negotiating a way forward diplomatically, as we had under earlier Republican administrations, but always falling back on the war option as if we haven’t had enough over the past 12 years.”
Tonally as well, Huntsman insisted his party has to evolve. The cultivation of knee-jerk conflict, he argued, has produced remarkably little fruit. For four years,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/28/jon-huntsman-republican-primary-2012_n_2206336.html
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Here is another quote from “Nothing Libertarian about him” HUntsman:
Jon Huntsman believes the answer to Republican woes is to adopt the agenda that people mistakenly ascribed to Mitch Daniels:
And if we don’t wind up at the end of the exercise with a mission statement that is one sentence long, then we’re toast. That one statement ought to be, ‘Balance the budgets and get out of people’s lives.’ And you ought to build the party around that because we have strong LIBERTARIAN roots that go way back to the early days of the Republican Party.
Others saw a Huntsman as libertarian leaning:
“During the GOP primaries, most young libertarians rolled their eyes but had their preferred candidates who at least nodded in the direction of LIBERTARIANISM. That included a bit of Jon Huntsman, a whole lot of Gary Johnson, and an even greater amount of Ron Paul. “
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dear-glenn-beck-please-dont-call-yourself-a-libertarian/