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Posted on 11/17/2011 12:25:27 PM PST by Antoninus
SALT LAKE CITY — GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr. predicted Friday that New Hampshire voters will rally around him in the nation's first primary.
Huntsman stopped short of saying he would win in New Hampshire but said he is moving up in the polls there, sparking what he said was a 240 percent boost in fundraising....
And he took a swipe at the other Mormon in the race, former Utah Olympic leader Mitt Romney. Romney, who has the support of most Utah GOP leaders in both his 2008 and 2012 bids, has been a frontrunner....
"You can't be a perfectly lubricated weather vane on the important issues of the day, whether it's Libya, whether it's the debt ceiling, whether it's the discussion around the Kasich bill in Ohio, where Gov. Romney has been missing in action in terms of showing any kind of leadership," Huntsman told Blitzer, according to a transcript of the interview....
"There's only one ticket out of New Hampshire for a moderate, center right candidate. It's either Romney or Huntsman. It's not going to be both," Scala said. "It's win or go home, I think, for Huntsman."
(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
Huntsman is in NH every week. It is the only state he is competing in as he is skipping IA and SC.
Last poll shows him at 7%. If he finishes third, maybe he lives for another week. I guess his strategy is that if Milt melts completely, he will continue on vs. Newt ... but even then, Newt, Cain, Paul will have 3 candidates going the distance ... so I cannot see the Huntsmen getting any traction even if he is successful.
He has run an interesting campaign in rural NH. The problem is that candidate is dull. And a “moderate-liberal” who won’t call himself a conservative.
Huntsman does have a knack for a crafted phrase.
But his delivery is awful. Whenever he slams someone with a clever insult, he has a look on his face that says, “Look, I just said a funny.” Reminds me of a dopey, unpopular 11-year-old who just wants to fit in with the other kids and, so, tries to say something that will make the other kids laugh.
That and he is so unmanly.
LOL 'Weather vane' isn't the word I would use but nice illiteration.
Huntsman is too boring and too ineffective to accomplish much of anything.
Huntsman ...calls Romney a ‘well-lubricated weather vane’
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Oh noez...
You dissed the fair haired boy...
No temple recommend for you...
They are NOT 1st cousins. They are 3rd cousins, once removed. Not a lot of love lost between the two at the moment, it seems.
Not strictly true that. Huntsman has, as you point out, worked New Hampshire harder than any other candidate. The numbers attending his Town Hall meetings are on the rise, his Super PAC only started airing the first pro-Huntsman ad a couple of days ago. The ad trumpets his conservatism. It’s all about his conservatism.
His positions are conservative, sans his belief in global warming, but then again his energy position negates that.
They’re still robotic D**ks...
Huntsman is not left of Mitt. Actually, you could make a strong case that he is to the RIGHT of Perry and Newt.
Look at his record as governor and his positions on issues now. Don’t get caught up in his rhetoric - that is nothing more than posturing. Personally, I’d rather have a true conservative who speaks like a moderate, rather than a moderate who speaks like a conservative....which is what we have in the GOP primary to a large degree.
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