Posted on 06/22/2011 9:29:37 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said this week he prefers Jon Huntsman to Mitt Romney in the GOP Mormon presidential primary, has taken a lot of money from the Huntsman family, and the former Utah governor appointed Reid’s son, Josh, to Utah’s Board of Regents.
So no wonder Reid said Tuesday, “If I had a choice in that race, I’d choose Huntsman over Romney.”
(Excerpt) Read more at lasvegassun.com ...
Rat lite.
Yep, he sure did.
I used to, but I'm getting old and crochety. A few decades of being kind didn't work, so I'm ready to kick 'em where it hurts, and keep kicking them when they're down.
Don't pull your punches...(but I did abscond with a copy of the graphic, if you don't mind).
(8^D)
I looked for old time Democrats in the record who'd had appointed positions and then ran as Republicans but didn't find any right off hand but I'm sure there must have been some.
So here we have a guy who was appointed by Obama ~ and gave serious contributions to the Senate Majority Leader, also a Democrat ~ and he wants to run as a Republican.
That does categorize him as a RINO ~ albeit with a slight amount of stress on the more formal definition.
Now, is he a nutball? That's all that remains. We know he's a Leftwingtard (how dare that puke ask us to be civil to Obama and his running dog lackeys), and he accepted an appointment from a Democrat, and he made contributions to Democrats ~ so why isn't he running in the Democrat primaries?
I think that may be a sign that he's not mentally well wrapped!
That's the very reason I make 'em! ;)
This guy’s starting to make even an ‘Olympia Snowe’ an attractive alternative.
That should count for something (just not as an anti B0 candidate).
What about Rick Perry?
We’ve heard Hannity do positive puff sessions on everybody ~ he just does that. Doesn’t mean a thing.
What was Hannity thinking?
More like a 16 year old having a premature ejaculation when faced with a beatiful girl.
He has shot his wad. Toast.
Dead duck.
not worth a keystro
Why is this fool even running?
The ghost of Joey Smith told them to do it.
>> We’ve heard Hannity do positive puff sessions on everybody ~ he just does that. Doesn’t mean a thing <<
May not mean anything about the subject of the puff piece, but it says something about the show....
Yes, he qualifies as a full blown RINO. Huntsman, however, went about it through a series of betrayals.
What happens here is that Perry probably hits the right buttons on ideological questions ~ but not on illegal aliens ~ and Huntsman hits NONE of the right buttons on ideology, and certainly NONE on correct partisan affiliations.
I kind of wonder if he wasn't inclined to run as a Republican for Governor of Utah because that's how he could win ~ but otherwise he wasn't very Republican in the first place. Utah is funny that way.
I will grant that Texas was in transition from one party rule by Democrats to competitive democracy where there were real Republicans around. He made a mistake in his youth and opted to go with the Democrats.
Some people want to forgive him about that. But his position on the illegals is simply not up to snuff. He's going to have to come around and escort a bunch of them personally BACK to Mexico before anybody believes him.
There's just no credibility in his message until he gets right with God and the American people on this illegal alien business.
He also sells himself as a listener and consensus seeker: “The most under-utilized part of the human anatomy for most politicians is the ear.”..... [end excerpt] Source
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He sounds like Hillary Clinton on her "listening tour" campaign against Obama.
Bear in mind, Reid is/was loved in the rural areas of Nevada, and perhaps this spills over to Utah.
So I don’t see this as black and white. Apparently Reid fights off the federal EPA on behalf of area mining companies. This alone may be the reason he’s supported.
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