[GlockThe Vote]

Obama was scared of him and thought he better get hunts out of the way sooner rather than later.

Aside from the global warming BS, Hunts would obliterate Obama.

[marty60]

Oh I have know doubt about that. Obama will be lost when it comes to a REAL debate.

McCain didn’t even try to debate him.

[hinckley buzzard]

"Hunts?" Guy's your buddy right? I get it now. You don't hate Newt because you're an idiot, you hate him because you're a liberal asswipe. Glad you outed yourself.

[Tredegar]

“Obama was scared of him and thought he better get hunts out of the way sooner rather than later.”

Exactly right. Pretty tough to beat a successful conservative governor (Huntsman hit 90% approval at one time, in one of the most conservative states in the nation - #1 in Job Creation, ‘Best Managed State in the Nation’ etc) who also has appeal to independents and conservative Democrats.

Far better, thought Obama, to remove this opponent from the 2012 battlefield. As an expert in the Far East, and as President George H.W. Bush’s Ambassador to Singapore, Huntsman was highly qualified for the post of Ambassador to China. Obama must have been pretty pleased at this cunning master stroke.

Alas, like everything else Obama touches, it has backfired badly. Possibly fatally for his hopes for a second term. Not only is Huntsman back, but he is now running, with yet another string to his bow.

Free Republic is no fan of Jon Huntsman. I can understand that, but I genuinely believe, that with every point Huntsman ticks upwards in New Hampshire, another bead of sweat appears on the head of a worried man in the Oval Office.

Jon Huntsman is an electoral nightmare for Obama-Biden 2012.