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Huntsman lunch with Bush in campaign spotlight
CNN ^ | 5/23/11 | Paul Steinhauser

Posted on 05/23/2011 7:26:58 PM PDT by advance_copy

Washington (CNN) - After wrapping up a five day swing through the first in the nation primary state of New Hampshire, Jon Huntsman heads to Maine Monday afternoon to meet with former President George H.W. Bush.

Huntsman is expected to have lunch with former President Bush and first lady Barbara Bush at their compound Kennebunkport.

The former Utah governor and probable 2012 GOP White House hopeful has something in common with the former president: Both served as U.S. ambassadors to China.

Huntsman's announcement earlier this year that he was stepping down from his post in Beijing to return to the U.S. was a major hint that he was seriously considering a bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maine; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: 2012; bush; gop; huntsman; jonhuntsman; maine; newhampshire; utah
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Unless someone breaks the establishment grip on the party, the GOP could very well nominate who the establishment selects. I am afraid that the GOP elite's pick will lose to Obama in 2012 because I believe they want to lose. Huntsman met with the party elder today for lunch. Was he there to prove he was willing to run a losing campaign?
1 posted on 05/23/2011 7:27:01 PM PDT by advance_copy
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Is Huntsman a genuine Conservative or is he a RINO?


2 posted on 05/23/2011 7:28:45 PM PDT by Jonty30
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much like the party elite ignored the massive threat of our current debt when they were last in power, their heads remain in the sand for dealing with the current threat. If we do not win in 2012, this country will never return to its previous greatness.


3 posted on 05/23/2011 7:30:11 PM PDT by ilgipper
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Huntsman supported Obama’s “stimulus” bill in 2009. Need anything else be said?


4 posted on 05/23/2011 7:30:17 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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If you do not like Huntsman then pray for a Bush endorsement.


5 posted on 05/23/2011 7:31:38 PM PDT by BufordP ("Drink me if you can't take a joke." -- Kool-aid)
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Jon Who?


6 posted on 05/23/2011 7:32:13 PM PDT by Domangart
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He is meeting with the Bush family,does that not tell you everything you need to know?


7 posted on 05/23/2011 7:32:38 PM PDT by GSP.FAN (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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Was he there to prove he was willing to run a losing campaign?

Let him. He is a loser after all. The establishment has been marginalized and exposed as of late for what they really are, Progressive insiders. Huntsman is just someone belonging to the chattering classes to talk about. He has zero name recognition, he is an ex Obummer employee and he has a thin record of accomplishment.

8 posted on 05/23/2011 7:33:08 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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Is Huntsman a genuine Conservative or is he a RINO?

Huntsman is an open-borders, RINO phony. In Utah he is considered to be the bored little rich boy playing politics. But he is a grave threat to derail conservatism from the GOP with his family's finances. La Raza would be THRILLED to have Huntsman as nominee.

9 posted on 05/23/2011 7:33:27 PM PDT by montag813 (SECURE THE DAMN BORDER! http://www.StandWithArizona.com)
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That’s why I refuse to donate to the “elite” Republican party!! Better to donate to THE candidate of choice.


10 posted on 05/23/2011 7:34:23 PM PDT by SootyFoot2
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He is doing lunch with a Bush.


11 posted on 05/23/2011 7:35:28 PM PDT by jospehm20
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That would be all I need to know.


12 posted on 05/23/2011 7:37:36 PM PDT by Jonty30
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There’s an awful lot of talk about Huntsman, and I don’t even know what he looks like!


13 posted on 05/23/2011 7:40:41 PM PDT by ChocChipCookie (Jonah is my patron saint.)
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Huntsman isn’t even a RINO. He’s a damned leftist who was chosen by Obama for the key position of Ambassador to China.

I hope the weather in Kennedbunkport is nice, and they take him out for a ride in their speedboat.


14 posted on 05/23/2011 7:47:04 PM PDT by Cicero
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An Obama troll .
He actually took a position with the Soros Puppet in China.
He is a global warming and amnesty bozo and Vat Tax supporter .
Romney on acid.
15 posted on 05/23/2011 7:48:20 PM PDT by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !)
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"Is Huntsman a genuine Conservative or is he a RINO?"{

He was a liberal republican governor and worked for obama as abmbassador to RED china... what do you think?

LLS

16 posted on 05/23/2011 7:55:37 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("If you lie hard enough and sell your soul... you can scam your way to the top" barack obama)
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bush... the one world order elitist failure and second father to billy jeff clinton. I dislike that family.

LLS


17 posted on 05/23/2011 7:57:57 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer ("If you lie hard enough and sell your soul... you can scam your way to the top" barack obama)
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NWO. Bushie. Compassionate Communist.


18 posted on 05/23/2011 7:59:36 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Socialism...Easier said than done.)
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Beware this. If daddy bush is vetting, so is bill clinton.


19 posted on 05/23/2011 8:22:47 PM PDT by MestaMachine (If you want to pillage,plunder,destroy, blaspheme,or defile, become a muslim, or name yourself obama)
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Huntsman is no different than the Vichy French who collaborated with the Nazis.


20 posted on 05/23/2011 8:43:56 PM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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