Posted on 11/04/2014 9:42:26 AM PST by Pan_Yan
If the polls hold, 2014 should be a banner year for Republicans. But Jon Hunstman Sr., a self-described "lifelong Republican" and former special assistant to President Richard Nixon, is looking ahead with concern about the Grand Old Party's 2016 prospects.
"The Tea Party has completely captivated and ruined the Republican Party today and they'll show this in 2016," says Hunstman, author of Barefoot to Billionaire. "Unless a Jeb Bush comes in or John Huntsman Jr., the Republicans don't have a prayer."
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The patriarch of the Huntsman family had a more terse reply when asked whether a 'moderate' Republican like Huntsman Jr. can win his party's nomination: "Of course not," he says.
As for Jeb Bush, Huntsman says he is "very bright and able" and "would represent the Republican party very well. But I doubt he'll be embraced too heavily by the Tea Party gang."
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Michele Bachmann is on FOX right now..
If theres a leader of the TEA Party and Conservatives its her..
along with Sarah Palin, Allen West, Ted Cruz etc
I’d like to see her run for POTUS again in 2016..
Willard must be stopped early before he can damage the Conservatives..
Michele wont let him bamboozle her..
As I write she just said “if theres a female nominee on the Republican side of the ticket”
:)
The word from a RINO!
“”Unless a Jeb Bush comes in or John Huntsman Jr., the Republicans don’t have a prayer.”
Goodbye and don’t let the door hit you in your ass as you leave.
The Republican party has morphed into Democrat-Lite.
The strength of the “Tea Party” has finally come to bear and has forced Republicans to run for their political, pandering life.
If we survive this election and 2016, I believe a new party will be alive and well in America it won’t be named Democrat or Republican.
“The Republicans have ruined the Whig Party! Had they just accepted that slavery is good for business, and allowed the institution to continue, we would not now be facing the prospect of civil war. But their insistence that slavery has to end is not only bad for business, it has torn the Whig Party apart! Those Republicans, and Mister Lincoln in particular, who have challenged the Whig party leadership, are everything wrong in the party today!”
This guy is very smart, but he can't see that the only conservative Republican candidate in the last 40 years won in two landslide elections, while 7 RINOs have gone 3 for 7 --barely. Weird.
Rather the TP movement NEEDS to take over the GOP!
Republican Party
TEA Party
we need to find a single candidate BEFORE the primaries. We need a National TEA Party Convention before the 2016 primaries start.
It hasn't "evolved" into anything. It's the eastern establishment, Rockefeller wing of the Party, the one that's always hated Reagan that's in charge now. Conservatives handed them the reins in 2010, and in thanksgiving we got shoved to the back of the bus.
Gillian’s Island was funny. One of the funniest episodes was when Gilligan won a lotto, so Mr. Howell let him join his country club. Gilligan gave permission to the others to join...:-)
you, then, shouldn't be allowed to express your opinion.
Harry Reid thanks you.
Gibe me a break. Your tired argument bores me. Karl Rove thanks you. Jeb Bush thanks you. Thad Cochran, Christie...
Ah, exactly who is Jon Hunstman Sr.? More importantly, why should I give a care? Wasn’t he some toady ambassador to the Chicoms — and a real loser?
Huntsman is a sneekey f. I never liked him or trusted him. He seemed to get into charactor when asked any questions and as he spoke he enjoyed hearing himself speak all the while knowing he really is this smart. Feckless phoney fraud!
There they are, explicitly telling us that they plan to implement amnesty!
A pox on their house... and Senate
Jon hasn’t seen anything yet. My hope is the TEA “party” destroys the GOPe back into their Whig reality...into the dustbin of history. Freaks like him have given us the flaccid feckless losing current GOPe.
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