The party needs to be more intellectually rigorous, and to compete for the votes of the young, the elites and minorities, he said in an interview with POLITICO. To do so, the GOP needs to tack toward the middle on environment, gay rights and immigration. And, yes, Ronald Reagan is to be admired – but as much for his oft-overlooked pragmatism as for his conservative principles.
“We need to pull up the stakes of the tent and draw them out a little bit,” he told POLITICO, while in town for the National Governors Associaton meeting.
Huntsman’s model comes not from the Reagan and Gingrich revolutions, but instead resembles a Republican brand of Clintonism: practical solutions, softened rhetorical edges aimed to appeal to the center and an overall modernization of a party badly in need of a new image.
IOTW, another RINO nightmare.
BTW, this is a teachable moment to those of you who repeat ad naseum that I want “anyone but Palin”. No, I sure as hell don’t. Not Huntsman, or Newt, or Mitt, or Tpaw, or Barbour, or Trump, or Johnson, or Huck, or Jeb, or Paul, or Mitch, or Santorum, or Roemer, or Pataki, or Gregg, or Dobbs, or Thune, or Bloomberg...