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The Spectacle Blog
Tomorrow morning Jon Huntsman is expected to withdraw from the GOP race and endorse frontrunner Mitt Romney.
Huntsman’s impending announcement comes scarcely 24 hours after being endorsed by The State, South Carolina’s largest newspaper. But Huntsman’s campaign never really got off the ground finishing a distant third in New Hampshire. He was generally annoying in the debates and simply didn’t resonate with conservatives. The only people who were excited by him were liberals who would have voted for President Obama anyway. Huntsman, of course, had served Obama as his Ambassador to China and upon his resignation referred to him as a “remarkable leader.” If Huntsman held Obama in such esteem then why run against him? His candidacy simply had no raison d’etre.
It’s interesting to see Huntsman endorse Romney given how he liked to say during the debates that Massachusetts was 47th in the nation in job growth when Romney was Governor as opposed to Utah being number one in the nation in job growth when he was Governor. But this is politics. Yesterday’s adversaries are tomorrow’s allies. Whether Obama or Romney is elected, I suspect Huntsman will soon be back in Beijing where he can speak Mandarin to his heart’s content.
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RJ| 1.15.12 @ 11:48PM
Who would have thought Santorum would have been one of the last ones standing? I thought he was going to be one of the first one's out.
I was expecting much more from Perry and Gingrich and was shocked that they both decided to end their campaigns like liberal demagogues. The long campaign really does let us learn about a candidate's strength of character.
Bob K.| 1.16.12 @ 12:35AM
That and the strength of their pocket books!
Kate| 1.16.12 @ 12:42AM
Not so. This conservative Republican and plenty of others were "excited by" Huntsman's candidacy and fully support him (and will NOT be voting for Obama). You are incorrect in saying that Huntsman called Obama a "remarkable leader" when he resigned from office. He wrote that to Obama in a thank you note when he was appointed in 2009, not when he resigned in 2011. Some of us still believe in writing gracious thank you notes.
Huntsman's campaign had plenty of raison d'etre -- he was the best-qualified candidate and he put forward a bold tax reform proposal and a realistic and modern foreign policy approach. He also developed a reform plan centered on term limits and curtailing lobbying by congressmen as a means to restoring trust in government.
Huntsman was the reliable (but not doctrinaire) conservative in the race. His candidacy was doomed from the start by the many conservative journalists and bloggers who incorrectly labeled him a liberal because he put country ahead of party and had the political courage to serve a new president of the opposition party as ambassador to China. It used to be said that partisan politics stops at the water's edge. Too many people in both political parties have forgotten that. Had the conservative media done their due diligence, they would have learned that Huntsman had a very conservative record in Utah. And his policy proposals were conservative, subtantive and smart. One example is Huntsman's proposal to address "too big to fail" banks. Whereas all of the candidates rail against Dodd-Frank, only Huntsman put forward a concrete proposal to resolve the problem. Yes, Huntsman advocates civil unions and trusts scientists on climate change but he does not favor spending large sums of money on measures to combat climate change now.
Huntsman is head and shoulders above all of the other GOP candidates in terms of experience and intellect. It is a sad commentary on the state of our party that voters were willing to consider candidates such as Cain and Bachmann, who are grossly underqualified for the presidency, but never gave Huntsman a chance. George Will and other conservatives came around to him eventually, but it was too late. The loss is ours. Romney, a Massachusetts liberal/moderate who will say or do anything to get elected, will be our nominee. (Perry and Gingrich don't stand a chance. Santorum might get the conservative vote but he doesn't have the resources or organization to continue. In any event, Santorum is probably unelectable in the general election.) Had the well not been poisoned against Huntsman right from the start, we could have had a conservative who proposed big and bold reforms of the tax code, spending and regulation. This is a sad day: conservatives blew their chance to elect a true conservative this year. Hopefully our party won't be so short-sighted in 2016.
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ml| 1.16.12 @ 5:54AM
We are screwed! GOP will lose the White House this coming Nov. election if Romney is the nominee. Romney will not get my vote and he is not conservative. GOP is in trouble. They need to have a clean house after the Nov. election. The Rino's should have join the Democratic Party because they are liberal.
Clint| 1.16.12 @ 6:09AM
We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.
These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.
Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....
The Tea Party Rebellion Is In South Carolina.
Crassus| 1.16.12 @ 9:55AM
Yada, yada, yada.
Margie| 1.16.12 @ 3:56PM
Actually, Clint~ YOU are trying to set us up for a loss.
Bob K.| 1.16.12 @ 9:28AM
Huntsman was always thin gruel. Hardly an intellectual giant, he dropped out of HS to play in a rock band. He later got his GED and then went to Penn for his college degree, thanks to his family money. His father laid a huge endowment on Penn a few years back as a thank you gift.
He was groomed to be the political connection for the Huntsman Corporation and served as Republican Governor of Utah before becoming Ambassador to China for the Democrat Obama Administration where the Huntsman Corporation has large investments in China's Chemical Industry.
As an aside (and everyone knows this so it should not need mentioning here), one does not become the Ambassador to a country like China if one is not a high ranking diplomat unless the position has been purchased through appropriate political donations.
Huntsman money has been "liberally" dispersed through academia and both political parties.
Crassus| 1.16.12 @ 9:57AM
Rush said it best--Huntsman would be better off challenging Obama for the Democratic nomination. His candidacy was a complete waste of time.
Margie| 1.16.12 @ 3:55PM
Didn't hear Rush today.. excellent as usual!!