From the official left wing organ of the country, The New York Times, a post on how Jon Huntsman thinks Bachman, Perry and his other rivals for the Republican nomination are not electable.
Pinch, the NY Times correspondent |
Huntsman Calls His Rivals ‘Unelectable’ By BRIAN KNOWLTON
WASHINGTON – Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the former Utah governor who has been stuck in the second tier of candidates for the Republican presidential nomination, took an aggressive new tone during a televised interview on Sunday, saying that recent remarks from two of his major rivals were “extreme” and “unrealistic.”
He was referring, respectively, to two of the most conservative Republican candidates – Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and the latest entry in the contest, Gov. Rick Perry of Texas – both of whom have far overshadowed him in polling of Republican voters.
Mr. Huntsman singled out two areas of commentary by Mr. Perry that have drawn particular criticism – Mr. Perry’s skepticism about the human causes of global warming as an unproven theory, and his suggestion that actions by Ben S. Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, to give the economy a boost might be “treasonous.”
He warned against the Republican Party becoming what he called “the anti-science party,” which he said would create “a huge problem” in 2012. In an appearance on the ABC News program “This Week,” Mr. Huntsman added, “I think when you find yourself at an extreme end of the Republican Party, you make yourself unelectable.”
Mr. Huntsman also scoffed at Mrs. Bachmann’s suggestion that, if elected president, she would help bring the price of gasoline to below $2 a gallon.
“I just don’t know what world that comment would come from,” Mr. Huntsman said. “That is completely unrealistic. And, again, it’s talking about things that, you know, may pander to a particular group or sound good at the time, but it just simply is not founded in reality.”
No Governor Huntsman, it's completely realistic and founded in reality. Seeing you served in a socialist regime you may have never heard of a law of economics called Supply and Demand. Relating to current gas prices if you limit the supply of oil/gas relative to a high demand, the cost will of course go up. Now how about this....we deregulate oil, let them drill, bring more oil to the market and more refineries on line. That will bring more gas on the market that will lower the cost. Unrealistic you say Governor? A man named Ronald Reagan did just that in 1981 after the shock of gas going over a dollar a gallon. And for a few months gas did go up...and then it went down. He let the market break the back of OPEC.
Real simple Mr Huntsman.
...Mr. Huntsman insisted that the American public was “crying out for a sensible middle ground.” He described the United States as a center-right country and said that was precisely where he stood.No Mr Huntsman, this country is crying out for leadership and a way from the Obama reign of error. Also Mrs Bachman didn't say a default would not "be a terrible thing", she said we would not default. Then again if we hadn't have given into B Hussein Obama on the debt ceiling our credit rating would have been downgraded....oh wait...
...Mr. Huntsman, who began his candidacy with calls for civility and respect, spent much of the time during his appearance on “This Week” seeming to position himself as a teller of blunt truths.
He criticized Republicans, including Mrs. Bachmann, who had suggested that a default on the nation’s debt might not be a terrible thing. On the contrary, he said, it would have been “catastrophic.”
Again I remember idiots saying Reagan could never get elected. History has show a real conservative is what this country wants. It's called leadership...a concept the man-child you served will never comprehend....and I question if you will.
Mr Huntsman, you're the typical inside the Beltway milquetoast liberal RINO that the NY Times et all loves. You will never get nominated or elected so please stop bothering us all. I know for the time being you will get these nice interviews and your picture on the NY Times but your not going anywhere. So please find a cocktail party in Manhattan that needs a leftwing Republican and get your photo taken with the beautiful people. There are problems that have to be worked on and you're disturbing the adults.
Don't go mad...just go away.
UPDATE:
From todays Nooner:
Who’s Unelectable? Posted by: MacAoidh on Monday, August 22, 2011, 15:55
Today, we’ve got Mr.-1-Percent-In-The-Polls Jon Huntsman lecturing the Republican electorate which is uninterested in voting for him as to who’s electable and who’s not…
Interestingly enough, there’s a poll out on the subject today. Gallup did it. And of course they didn’t poll Huntsman against his old boss Barack Obama – because were Gallup to do that they’d need to poll on everybody else in the GOP race who has zero support – but they did poll three candidates Huntsman thinks are fringe against the president.
Guess what they found?
Isn’t that something? Perry’s tied with Obama among registered voters, Bachmann’s within four points and Ron Paul is within two.
Yes, Mitt Romney is two points up on Obama. There was never much doubt that Romney could beat Obama (well, there was, when Obamacare rather than the S&P downgrade and the hideous Obama economy was the major issue in the campaign); the issue is whether it’s smart to run a guy who’s an unreliable conservative when someone who’s an unmistakable conservative could win just as easily.
There is is in a nutshell....a real conservative can work as opposed to the RINO's we have nominated in the past...McCain and Dole anyone.
We think Romney would have beaten Obama back in 2008. It took an abysmal campaign by John McCain – whose longtime chief strategist John Weaver is currently running Huntsman’s clown show – to lose a race to a guy from Jeremiah Wright’s church.
Of course, Rasmussen does have a poll out identifying somebody who really is unelectable the way things are at present…
Again we have more evidence the "moderate's only can win" facade in the Republican Party leadership is flawed. Then again anyone with their heads away from their Forth Point of Contact knows that.
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