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Barack Obama braces for Jon Huntsman 2012 bid
Polutico ^ | Monday January 31, 2011 | Jonathan Martin

Posted on 01/31/2011 6:45:34 AM PST by Bigtigermike

The White House expects Jon Huntsman, the U.S. Ambassador to China, to resign his post this spring to explore a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, top Democrats said.

GOP allies of Huntsman have already begun laying plans for a quick-start campaign should the former Utah governor decide to enter the ill-defined Republican field.

Huntsman has avoided publicly discussing the possibility of a bid against the president who appointed him, but he’s sending signals that make clear he’s serious about a run now – not in 2016, when many top officials in both the GOP and the White House assumed he’d run

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 2012elections; 2012gopprimary; huntsman; huntsman2012; palin; rino
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Hopefully he'll split some of the RINO vote, the more the merrier!
1 posted on 01/31/2011 6:45:42 AM PST by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike
Huntsman is swimming against the tide.
He is not even IN the Harry Poll.
Why? Because he works with OBAMA and the DNC.

Click here for HARRY info

2 posted on 01/31/2011 6:50:47 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Bigtigermike

Huntsman or Romney...

Both are RINOs..

The WH would just love to have either of them in the GOP slot


3 posted on 01/31/2011 6:53:49 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Bigtigermike

“I’m so excited”, now what was the topic???


4 posted on 01/31/2011 6:53:50 AM PST by org.whodat
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To: Bigtigermike

lol.

I love it when these people try to tell us who to vote for.


5 posted on 01/31/2011 6:54:17 AM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php)
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To: pissant

*ping*


6 posted on 01/31/2011 6:55:46 AM PST by hennie pennie
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To: Tennessee Nana; GeronL

7 posted on 01/31/2011 6:56:37 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Bigtigermike

The establishment republicans are starting to PANIC!

Romney has imploded, Huckabee (the one they thought could take Sarah out) isn’t running. Pence isn’t running.

While I’ve always thought Jeb would wait until 2016, he may jump in if they see Sarah really is going to take it...which as of right now, she is in perfect position to do.

Anyone who thinks I’m crazy needs only to look at all the polls and add a majority of Huckabee’s voters to Governor Palin’s column (as they are for the most part Evangelical Voters who Sarah polls very well with.) She’s almost everyone’s second choice, and once they start dropping out, her numbers are just going to increase.

This thing could be over before it starts.

Governor Palin is going to walk away with the nomination and win the White House in a landslide.


8 posted on 01/31/2011 6:56:37 AM PST by t-dude (Sarah causes banal and vituperous evil snarks to shriek in horror!)
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To: Bigtigermike

Obama sandwich, except both sides are white.


9 posted on 01/31/2011 6:57:48 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: t-dude

bttt


10 posted on 01/31/2011 7:00:40 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Trent Lott on Tea Party candidates: "As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them" 7/19/10)
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To: Bigtigermike
Over the holidays, the ex-governor met with Sen. John McCain, whose 2008 presidential run Huntsman backed early on. In a discussion with the senator, who is the ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, about a variety of issues,

Huntsman backed McCain early on? That won't exactly recommend him to many conservative voters, or even not so conservative Republicans who oppose McCain's amnesty schemes, which was the main issue McCain was identified with early in the 2007 - 2008 primary campaigns.

11 posted on 01/31/2011 7:01:16 AM PST by Will88
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To: broken_arrow1
Obama sandwich


12 posted on 01/31/2011 7:02:26 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, in honor of Standing Wolf.)
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To: Bigtigermike

Obama “braces” for a Huntsman run?

Sounds like a “don’t throw me into that briarpatch” moment.


13 posted on 01/31/2011 7:02:34 AM PST by ScottinVA (The West needs to act NOW to aggressively treat its metastasizing islaminoma!)
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I wonder if they're playing Huntsman to go third party?

He sure isn't going to get far in the republican primaries.......

14 posted on 01/31/2011 7:03:52 AM PST by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: Bigtigermike

I keep hearing about this nobody - is he supposed to be 2012 Soros/DNC/MSM answer for McCain? (I’m assuming they’ve figured out they can’t stick us with that excuse for a candidate again).


15 posted on 01/31/2011 7:03:59 AM PST by Stosh
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To: Bigtigermike

So he’s going to quit his job with the Obama administration which he took when he quit his job as governor of Utah.


16 posted on 01/31/2011 7:04:51 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Touch my tagline and I'll have you arrested)
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To: USS Alaska

A wish sandwich:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyBZE0kBtE


17 posted on 01/31/2011 7:06:16 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Bigtigermike

This is nothing more than Politico BS; printing a Huntsman PR release.


18 posted on 01/31/2011 7:07:56 AM PST by MindBender26 (Fighting the "con" in Conservatism on FR since 1998.)
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To: Will88

I had read that Huntsman endorsed McCain in the GOP primaries while his father endorsed Romney.


19 posted on 01/31/2011 7:08:26 AM PST by ruralvoter
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To: Bigtigermike

Say hello to Journolists latest Republican contender (anybody but Palin) of the week.


20 posted on 01/31/2011 7:12:31 AM PST by curth (SarahPac: More than 2.5 million Facebook members! Are you in for $20.12?)
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