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Taking gloves off on GOP frontrunner, Jon Huntsman smacks Mitt — in Mandarin!
SFGate: Politics Blog ^ | 1/8/12 | Carla Marinucci, Chronicle Political Writer

Posted on 01/08/2012 8:07:37 AM PST by SmithL

What was going through the minds of the GOP candidates Saturday night when they engaged in a circular firing squad — and largely gave GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney the kid glove treatment at the big televised ABC debate? As California Democratic campaign consultant Bob Mulholland laughingly told us afterwards (he got a ticket to sit in the debate hall at St. Anselm College): “What was wrong with these guys? If any one of them had punched him out, they would have made the headline of the night.”

Yeah, well, move along, there’s nothing to see here. The guy who showed the most moxie, and the most debate chops when it came to that front, was former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.

When Romney jabbed him for working with the Obama Administration (and apparently for trying to talk up relations with China), Huntsman bounded back with a zinger — in fluent Mandarin. The media filing center erupted: finally, some real (bilingual) fireworks!

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: debate; huntsman; romney
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To: poindexter

[ Now THAT’S what I call being in touch with the common man! Too bad Huntsman’s common man lives in China. ]

1 billion people vs. 300 million here, so if you are a Globalist he does have more in common with the “common man”.....


21 posted on 01/09/2012 12:38:01 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Mycroft Holmes

[ Maybe he is a HUGE Firefly fan?
I think you have the way of it. ]

None of the Candidates so far have twixt my neithers like things being ran on batteries...


22 posted on 01/09/2012 12:39:25 PM PST by GraceG
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To: SmithL; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy

OK, maybe that was aimed at the Asian-American vote. I don’t know what else to think of it.


23 posted on 01/10/2012 4:53:14 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (Illegal aliens collect welfare checks that Americans won't collect)
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24 posted on 01/10/2012 5:35:14 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Clintonfatigued

No way did he do this for Chinese votes; Huntsman did that to remind people that he “speaks Mandarin” (although I’ve read that his Mandarin is actually terrible) because he figures that some people are easy to impress.


25 posted on 01/10/2012 5:57:06 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: AuH2ORepublican; Clintonfatigued; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

Insert Manchurian candidate joke.

Huntsman is even more arrogant and less conservative that Mitt Romney.


26 posted on 01/11/2012 4:48:24 PM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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