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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I think junior, not senior.
Kind of the difference between 2-day old oatmeal and 3-day old oatmeal, but that’s my opinion of G Beck, as well. A devotee of the church of averagism. An amalgam of very mild conservatism, very mild anti-evil-Americanism, *slightly* mild pro-Americanism, very mild intellect, very mild evangelism, very mild stupidity and banality, and turned it all into an average of utterly everything. I seriously dislike his radio show.
The quicker the better. The best way we can do that is in primaries, when that fails (because or GOPe fraud and domination), our last recourse is withholding our vote in the general. That’s what I did. My rep, Lynn Jenkins, will win, but my Senator, Pat Roberts, may very well lose. We’ll have a liberal idiot for our senator, but Pat Roberts will never hold elected office again.
Huntsman can go pee up a rope. Then again, maybe he can’t.
Beck is a lib to his core.
It’s definitely in need of a massive overhaul. It was tried during 2009-2012 with the ‘Tea Party’, but the GOPe co-opted, watered down the movement, and effectively killed the holdouts that refused to be co-opted.
Even if the Republicans win in a sweep, nothing really changes. Sure they’ll get their precious committee chairmanships in the Senate, but nothing good will happen. The only difference will be is legislation will die by 0bama’s pen, rather than sitting on Harry Reid’s desk.
Nothing short of a majority capable of overriding a Veto materially changes anything. That said, I’d rather have a republican Senate than a Democrat Senate, and that’s just enough for me to go vote, I guess. (I’ve never been less enthused about voting)
He sits like most all of his party mates.
To do that, the the GOPe has to lose elections.
Lots of us warned the TEA groups not to let them in. They did. this is the result. The next uprising should listen.
Heh…. 'aint that the TRUTH!
Yes those awful Tea Partiers who believe in the Constitution, low taxes, equal opportunity for all, capitalism and small government: Those are values the GOP can NOT endorse!
Why? Because they want gov’t accountability from our so-called leaders?
Idiots like Huntsman have ruined the GOP.
Let’s see what happens in 2015. If enough conservatives are elected today perhaps the Republican Party will see the light and transform into a bright red party. And you and I can play a big role if they drag their feet. No one in WDC likes to hear a lot of noise from their constituents.
Elitists always prefer docile and tractable subjects they can count on to bow before them.
Wharton! The Beijing of North America.
Let a real Republican Party rise from the ashes....
BS.
We’re the only reason the GOP has a soul left.
Boy howdy!
John Huntsman....is that Glenn Beck’s mentor, buddy and perhaps financier?
yeah
aint it great ????
:)
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