Comparison of the Media Coverage on Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman (transcript)

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Comparison of the Media Coverage on Rick Perry and Jon Huntsman

June 20, 2011

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RUSH: In my show prep perusal today, ladies and gentlemen, it is clear that Jon Huntsman is gonna announce tomorrow, the former ambassador to the ChiComs for Obama, former governor of Utah. He's gonna announce. The Drive-Bys are orgasmic. They can't wait. They are just over the top with excitement. Everywhere you look today there are stories about Huntsman and how there are sighs of relief within the power structure of the Republican Party. "Finally somebody reasonable! Finally an adult," and all this is happening at the same time that Rick Perry happens to be rocking and rolling.

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RUSH: Rick Perry over the weekend in New Orleans delivered, as it's reported here at MSNBC, "an unapologetically socially conservative speech before a friendly crowd." Unapologetically? What, "social conservatives" are supposed to apologize before they make speeches about social issues? Yeah, I guess so, given the website: MSNBC. We have sound bites on this. Let's first go to yesterday and this morning. We have a montage of people at MSNBC: F. Chuck Todd, Joe Scarborough, former White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton and Paul Gigot talking about Rick Perry and former President Bush.

F. CHUCK TODD: I've had, quietly, some Republicans say Rick Perry is just a little too Texan --

SCARBOROUGH: (snickering)

F. CHUCK TODD: -- this close to Bush.

SCARBOROUGH: That's Rick Perry doing George W. Bush.

BURTON: Rick Perry is a pretty extreme version of George W. Bush.

GIGOT: Is the country, particularly those northern suburbs, ready for another Texan after eight years of George W. Bush?

RUSH: What is this groupthink? Where does this come from? The idea that voters in this country are going to say, after hearing Rick Perry -- or anybody -- "Oh, no, no, no! We can't elect Rick Perry. He comes from the same state Bush came from." Is the Bush Derangement Syndrome so distorting of these people's minds that they really believe that voters would decide on a candidate because he was the same state that George W. Bush is from? I mean, this sounds like a stretch -- and even Paul Gigot from the Wall Street Journal, who was the last voice you heard there, seemed to agree with the sentiment. It was F. Chuck Todd here who says, "I've quietly had some Republicans say that Rick Perry is just a little too Texan this close to Bush."

Well, now, so Texas is hated along with Bush? Sorry, folks, I don't buy this....

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[Paladin2]

I'm for Perry over Huntsman:

[Hugin]

I've had, quietly, some Republicans say Rick Perry is just a little too Texan --

With half of all the jobs in America being created in Texas, why would having the guy running that state be bad in the OBama Depression?

[ExTexasRedhead]

Rush pointed out today that Huntsman and McFlame are of the same Eunuch category (Liberals at heart). No self-respecting American would waste their vote on Huntsman, the Moderate, or Romney, the RINO. They both suck, in my opinion.

[luvbach1]

I will not support anyone who voted for 0bummer. Or has Huntsman denied that?

[smoothsailing]

Yummy! :o)

[EGPWS]

No self-respecting American would waste their vote on Huntsman, the Moderate, or Romney, the RINO.

You got that right!

Romney is the head sucker and Hunstman is sucker in training.

Both are black hole prospects if they get together and suck.

I hole I'm not being too hard on the RINO bass turds.

[GOPsterinMA]

It’s out there that the Bush clan doesn’t like Perry.

So, MSM, how are they “thisclose”? THEY’RE NOT!!!

[smoothsailing]

I’ve read that Huntsman thinks of himself as a “progressive” Republican.

That’s a red flag in my book.

Apparently he plans to run to the left of Mittens. LOL!

[ExTexasRedhead]

I think it’s safe and accurate to say that the mere mention of Romney or Huntsman’s names as candidates for the Presidency would make President Ronald Reagan roll over in his grave.

[Doogle]

...the Gipper hasn’t stop spinning since the big eared Kenyan got the nomination.

[raygun]

On ABC World News Report this evening, they mentioned that Perry campaigned for AllGork!?!?!? What would any self respecting small-government literal Constitutionally-limited conservative seen in that posseur? So he’s immedately in my questionable column.

So there’s McRom-nutts, Good-n-Pawlenty, Contract-Breakin’-Newt, Ringling Bro Ron Paul w/George McGovern foreign policy, Michele-Kathlieen Harris crazy-Bachman, on the one side. On the other side is West, Cain, Santorum and an unknown dude nobody’s heard of. I really don’t know where Palin fits into the grand scheme of things; it seems to me she’s running a campaign on platitude steam-power.

[normy]

Perry supported Gore in the 1988 Dem primary’s against Dukakis when Perry was a Southern Dem. The next year he switched party's

[wolfman23601]

West is running?

I am getting close to deciding on Santorum. This field sucks and at least he is both conservative and articulate. Too bad he has zero chance because he isn’t a celebrity.

[FlyingEagle]

Who ever heard of or wants Huntsman? He’s a shill for Obama and the Chinese.

Where is the clamoring and upwelling of support for Huntsman? I don’t even know what he looks like.

Where was Huntsman when Obama Care was getting rammed down our throat, car companies nationalized, stimulus give aways?

[raygun]

Would it be fair to say Perry is the equivalent of a Roosevelt, i.e., Teddy, style-progressive? We want that?

It would seem that the degree of conservative that the voting electorate at large can stomach these days draws the line at Hoover progressive-style Republicrats.

Say what you will, but the demise of Keyes, Hunter and Thompson in deference to McLame and Romney speaks volumes with respect to what was ominiously presented 150 years ago (see my tag-line) and the inevitable outcome, i.e., Revolution of 1848.

I have no doubt that all things equal, and progression of the status quo the way it has been, the same will unfold her in the U.S.A. in the near foreseable future. There's an old black'n'white movie clip of two old steam locomotives colliding that comes to mind.

[Daffynition]

Anyone commenting on what the DNCis doing?

Democratic re-election platform

How perfectly fitting!----

Speaks for itself...

I know this is supposed to be the smartest administration ever, but I'm sorry; if I were running a campaign with a fairly unpopular incumbent, the last thing I'd do is have a reelection slogan whose initials were WTF.

[hellbender]

Don't try to explain away Perry's past that glibly. He was a happy, contented Demonrat until he was 38, which is middle age...which means he backed LBJ, the father of the Entitlement State, Jimmah Carter against Reagan, Gore against Bush I. Gore was a phony even then. He was not some kind of "Southern conservative." He boasted of being a "moderate," and we know what that means in MSM newspeak. Gore immediately moved left when he wanted to run for national office, and I predict Perry will do the same if he moves to the White House and becomes another member of the inside-the-beltway crowd. He has acted conservative because that's what plays well in TX these days. He is a consumate career politician, just like Gore.

Nor does the story end when Perry became a Republican. In 2007 he supported ultraRINO Rudy Giuliani, then switched to RINO John McCain.

[hellbender]

Santorum lost a race for Sen. in PA by 18%. So he’s not someone who had a stellar record at winning elections. Also, he backed the treacherous Arlen Sphincter over a conservative challenger.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yeah, it is safe to say ;-)