Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman

[ironsides]

He just might be the credible candidate many were hoping for to run against President Obama.


Jon Huntsman: The Potential Republican Presidential Candidate Democrats Most Fear

Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman has just proved he can keep 1,100 graduating college kids awake for 17 minutes — and even led them in a popular local cheer about kicking ass. But Obama's lean, understated former ambassador to China is really here to prove he can mount a credible campaign against the man he was working for a week prior. In a brightly lit cinder-block room inside the sports arena where the University of South Carolina has held its commencement, the former Utah governor jokes that the stark setting of our interview — his first since returning to the U.S. — suggests he might be in for some "enhanced interrogation."



Jon Huntsman: Why Democrats Fear Potential GOP Candidate - TIME​

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[mentalfloss]

...and even led them in a popular local cheer about kicking ass. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2071003,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly​

Fail.

 

[damngrumpy]

Another one of those right wing red neck cheerleaders. He doesn't have much of a
chance really. Huckabee is a smart man, and not a bad guy at all despite being a
social conservative. he is not running, and the reason is he knows the Republicans
don't stand much of a chance in this one. One of the worst things to happen to the
Republican Party is the nonsense of the Teabaggers (Tea Party) The Republican
Party mainstream, has been a fiscal conservative party and now is in the hands of
radicals and evangelicals not a good image for the mainstream of America. The
more they rant and scream the less influence they have.
Donald and his friends are no help either, instead of discussing the serious issues of
the day, The Donald is subscribing to the birth certificate issue and the law school
marks of Obama's at Harvard. This is pure grandstanding and will come home to
haunt the Republicans. Birth Certificate issue is dead in the water, and the marks at
University will be made public as soon as the conspiracy theory crowd have made
absolute fools of themselves. Jon Huntsman isn't going to have the horses to pull this
off. Not even Romeny or Huckabee have the horses to do it. He might as welll
sacrifice himself at the altrer of Republicanism, as the real guns are looking away and
beyond 2012.

 

[PoliticalNick]

Another one of those right wing red neck cheerleaders. He doesn't have much of a
chance really. Huckabee is a smart man, and not a bad guy at all despite being a
social conservative. he is not running, and the reason is he knows the Republicans
don't stand much of a chance in this one. One of the worst things to happen to the
Republican Party is the nonsense of the Teabaggers (Tea Party) The Republican
Party mainstream, has been a fiscal conservative party and now is in the hands of
radicals and evangelicals not a good image for the mainstream of America. The
more they rant and scream the less influence they have.
Donald and his friends are no help either, instead of discussing the serious issues of
the day, The Donald is subscribing to the birth certificate issue and the law school
marks of Obama's at Harvard. This is pure grandstanding and will come home to
haunt the Republicans. Birth Certificate issue is dead in the water, and the marks at
University will be made public as soon as the conspiracy theory crowd have made
absolute fools of themselves. Jon Huntsman isn't going to have the horses to pull this
off. Not even Romeny or Huckabee have the horses to do it. He might as welll
sacrifice himself at the altrer of Republicanism, as the real guns are looking away and
beyond 2012.

With all the evidence of how fake the birth certificate was I can't understand why you think it is a dead issue. The file number doest show in any searches and they forgot to lock the layers of the edited document as has been proven many times over. Of course some have forgotten all about it since he killed OBL just like the economy stopped collapsing that day too. :lol:

 

[taxslave]

Credible and Republican are difficult to use in the same sentence without putting "not" between them.

 

[Icarus27k]

You're pretty close to the truth, ironsides.

Jon Huntsman is a very credible politician. In fact, as a liberal/progressive Democrat, I can say that he's one of my favorite Republicans because he's surprisingly liberal on some issues. (I never thought the Republican governor of Utah was speak positively on gay rights issues, for example.)

However, this is also Huntsman's undoing. The religious right and the Tea Partiers that make up the Republican primary electorate are not going to support a civil unions-supporting former Obama ambassador as their candidate. .

 

[gopher]

Another Bush crony in the White House? Heaven help us!!!!!

 

[ironsides]

We have had far more restrictions put on our liberties by the left than we have had by the right. The left has been trying to put the religious scare in us since Alfred E. Smith ran for President, the left and right have been saying watch out, they will convert the U.S. into what ever religion they represented. Most laws that restrict civil liberties were enacted not by the religious right, but by the left leaning who were pushing their own agendas. JFK became President, the Pope didn't take over. The Tea Party is a potential third party that we need to break up the monopoly forced upon us by the Democrats and Republicans. Fortunately or unfortunately they are the only grass root third party to come out of this with any possibility of winning, also I would put my trust in a real Red Neck party before any other party.

Jon Huntsman can and will become a credible candidate as long as he keeps doing what he is doing now and no scandals come out of his closet.

 

[Icarus27k]

Really?

And how is Huntsman going to be a credible Republican candidate if the religious right and the Tea Partiers (people that make up the Republican primary voters) don't like him?

 

[ironsides]

Give him a little time, he is the only Rep. who sounds credible, we still have a year and a half so to go.

"The current occupant of the Oval Office, he says, "is trying to pick up the pieces of our economy and make sense of a world grown more complex and confusing." And it does bother him, he says, to hear people arguing about who, Bush or Obama, should get more credit for bringing down Osama bin Laden. "Our country needs a little good news, and this was an American event, an American achievement, not a political one.""

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[gopher]

''We have had far more restrictions put on our liberties by the left than we have had by the right.''

The historical record shows quite the contrary.

 

[ironsides]

''We have had far more restrictions put on our liberties by the left than we have had by the right.''

The historical record shows quite the contrary.

Show me.

You want to see a Tea Party Candidate. How about Rick Santorum from Penn. So...why isn't anyone talking about fire-breathing, far-right Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania? He's a former U.S. Senator from the kind of industrial swing state the Republicans need to reclaim in 2012, but our campaign guru Mark Halperin didn't even lay odds on him,