Posted on 09/14/2012 12:15:56 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
s Jon Huntsman headed the way of Charlie Crist? When the 2016 Dem convention rolls around, will we see the also-ran GOP presidential nomination-seeker on the podium, seconding Hillary's nomination? You've got to wonder after Huntsman's toadying performance today as he made the MSNBC rounds.
After appearing on Morning Joe earlier, Huntsman turned up on Andrea Mitchell's show. Mitchell posed a laughably-loaded question, bashing Mitt Romney's response to the Obama administration's handling of the embassy attacks. The haughty Huntsman was only too happy to play the useful idiot, concurring that there was "a lot to the criticism" and ripping Romney as an "impetuous candidate" in a time of foreign policy crisis.
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What word would you use to describe Jon Huntsman after he sucked up to Andrea Mitchell’s loaded, Romney-bashing “question”? Ping to Today show list.
Looking for a a job similar to Joe Scarboro’s
A show they could call, Huntsman on the Hunt (for relativity)
Weasel.
Huntsman has been a leftist since the beginning. That was obvious during the primaries. He was one of the few to the left of Romney. Not for nothing did Obama choose him as his Ambassador to his pals in China.
He was sniffed out as a DNC mole early on.
When R/R win, expect a Heaven’s Gate type scenario to play out at MSNBC.
Glenn Beck used to talk about Jon Huntsman the Elder quite a bit; hasn’t mentioned him at all that I recall in quite a while (> 1 year).
They are bashing Romney’s response on FOX too. Noonan, Ed Rollins, Chris Wallace. Makes me sick
She shuffles around now like Yoda
Wasn’t Huntsman supposed to speak at the DNC? Or did he and no one noticed?
I always thought him a mole...especially when investigated his tenure in China. I also think Johnson is a mole.
Put Huntsman in the “old salt and pepper” and he would look exactly like Barney Fife.
Huntsman was always a traitor. Nothing new here.
Throw Andrea over the fence in Yemen.
Let them take their angst out on her, she supports the DroneKing
RatBastid, PoleSmoker, Liar, DoGooder Douchebag!
There is bad blood towards the Romneys by the Huntsmans. Jon Huntsman Jr. is an elitist of the worst sort. He thinks Mitt Romney shouldn’t have been in the limelight; he should have been. He thinks he is a foreign policy expert because of his experience as Ambassador to China and the fact that he can speak Chinese (he was appointed by Obama so that should tell you something about Huntsman right there). Jon Huntsman the younger is quite liberal and is politically ambitious and thinks Mitt isn’t as qualified as he is.
The bad blood goes back to the Winter Olympics held in Utah years ago where Mitt Romney was brought in to save it from financial ruin, which he did. Jon Huntsman the younger was also in contention for that position, but Mitt was chosen, not Jon, to fix the Olympics. Jon Huntsman was ticked off about this bigtime and the grudge remains.
When Mitt ran for Prez the first time, it was expected Huntsman the younger would support Mitt in the primaries. Mitt and Jon, both Mormons, are distantly related (3rd cousins, once removed). Jon didn’t, he supported John McCain instead. Jon’s father initially worked on Mitt’s campaign. He quit after his son threw his support to McCain, and after that the ties between the two Mormon families were basically severed.
Bottom line, Mitt and Jon don’t like each other, although Mitt doesn’t badmouth Jon, but Jon does badmouth Mitt any chance he gets. He’s a nasty, elitist piece of work, and if Mitt Romney actually gets in to run for Prez in 2016, odds are Jon Huntsman will then jump in also to further pursue his animosity and rivalry towards Mitt. This is the background filler for the Romney and Huntsman families and the basis of the rivalry between them.
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