Posted on 02/02/2011 7:40:08 PM PST by pissant
Through the simple act of resigning as the United States Ambassador to China, John Huntsman, Jr., has injected considerable excitement into the 2012 Republican presidential sweepstakes. The sheer attention the mere possibility of the businessman-turned governor-turned diplomat is attracting says much about the current state of the race and even more about what the party’s primary voters may be seeking in their next presidential nominee.
The first thing a possible Huntsman candidacy would bring to the 2012 campaign is a “new face.” Republicans often say that they want such a thing, but seldom get around to nominating it. This is, after all, the party that put a man named “Nixon,” on five of its national tickets, another named “Dole” on two, and two named “Bush” on six. Of the dozen or so Republicans likely to pursue the nomination, several sought the presidency or the vice presidency before, others were considered as possibilities, while the rest are all known to party circles for their work in past administrations, party affairs, and Congress.
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Hu?
Oh. I’m excited. I’m real excited. Yawwwnnnn.
been hearing rumors that Sarah’s folks met with the Koch brothers.....hmmmmmm
Excitement? More like excrement.....
Excitement? Among who? The liberals in DC?
U.S. News and World Report is a joke.
"Sarah."
ROFL! Musta been a typo
How come I never heard of this dude? Does he have any name recognition? Lots and lots of voters vote based on name recognition since they don’t know where any one stands on issues.
The party needs to be more intellectually rigorous, and to compete for the votes of the young, the elites and minorities, he said in an interview with POLITICO. To do so, the GOP needs to tack toward the middle on environment, gay rights and immigration. And, yes, Ronald Reagan is to be admired – but as much for his oft-overlooked pragmatism as for his conservative principles.
“We need to pull up the stakes of the tent and draw them out a little bit,” he told POLITICO, while in town for the National Governors Associaton meeting.
Huntsman’s model comes not from the Reagan and Gingrich revolutions, but instead resembles a Republican brand of Clintonism: practical solutions, softened rhetorical edges aimed to appeal to the center and an overall modernization of a party badly in need of a new image.
He looks more like Terry McAuliffe’s brother to me
Obama’s ambassador to Communist China?
Who is Lavin Felzinberg, and what’s he been smoking?
The Mormon Superteam: Romney/ Huntsman... That’s almost too much excitement!
sarc
Maybe the illegit offspring from a McAuliffe-Crist bathhouse romp
Maybe for a small percentage of the 500 people outside of Utah who've ever heard of him.
Maybe certain folks have given up on Romney and decided they needed a different lying RINO to back.
Another Mormon moderate. How exciting.
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