Posted on 01/15/2012 10:24:35 AM PST by Qbert
Jon Huntsman was endorsed by Columbia, S.C.'s The State newspaper on Sunday.
The endorsement comes less than a week before the South Carolina primary and comes as Huntsman quickly tries to gain traction in the Palmetto state. The State's endorsement is actually similar to what happened just before the New Hampshire primary: Mitt Romney's hometown paper, The Boston Globe, backed Huntsman in a long editorial in which it compared Romney with the former Utah governor. Like the Globe endorsement, The State praised both Romney and Huntsman but said Huntsman was the better candidate.
"There are actually two sensible, experienced grownups," The State editorial reads. "And while Mr. Romney is far more appealing than any of the other choices, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is more principled, has a far more impressive resume and offers a significantly more important message."
The editorial highlighted Huntsman's time as governor of Utah and also highlighted his foreign policy credentials, reiterating Huntsman's explanation for serving as an ambassador in the Obama administration.
"He served as President George H.W. Bush’s U.S. ambassador to Singapore and President George W. Bush’s deputy U.S. trade representative and U.S. trade ambassador, and the next entry on that resume is even more impressive: He was a popular and successful governor in an extremely conservative state, well positioned to become a leading 2012 presidential contender, when Mr. Obama asked him to serve in arguably our nation’s most important diplomatic post, U.S. ambassador to China," the editorial continued. "It could be political suicide, but he didn’t hesitate. As he told our editorial board: “When the president asks you to serve, you serve."
Also similar to the Globe editorial, The State editorial concludes while Romney could be a candidate who unites, isn't trying to just score political "points" and has the necessary background, "temperament and judgement" to be president, Huntsman already has all those attributes.
"We think Mr. Romney could demonstrate those characteristics," the endorsement ends. "Mr. Huntsman already does. And we are proud to endorse him for the Republican nomination for president of the United States."
Huntsman is likely to mention the editorials often alongside two other South Carolina endorsements: that of the state's former and current attorneys general, who endorsed him well before the South Carolina primary. He's also regularly touted The Wall Street Journal editorial page's praise of his tax plan.
The most recent Public Policy Polling survey of South Carolina found Huntsman with 5 percent support of Republican voters, behind Romney (29 percent), Newt Gingrich (24 percent), Ron Paul (15 percent), Rick Santorum (14 percent) and Rick Perry (6 percent).
So these guys think a guy who worked for Hussein is the best choice, eh?
LOL FOTFLMAO
Is that paper even of fish wrapper quality?
Could be a good thing. Probably pulls from likely Romney supporters more than anyone else.
So these guys think a guy who worked for Hussein is the best choice, eh?
This is most likely to affect the country club voters, which tends to support Mittens. Hopefully Huntsman will siphon votes away from Romney.
"Could be a good thing. Probably pulls from likely Romney supporters more than anyone else."
Yep. ;-) ;-)
Here, I fixed it for them:
"There are actually two sensible, experienced grownups," The State editorial reads. "We are going to endorse the one that has no chance of winning to muddy the waters in the GOP primary and hopefully extend the internecine fighting."
Makes sense since Gary Johnson dropped out.
Pray for America
What are those people in South Carolina smoking?? Huntsman? Really?
You know it’s a leftist editorial board when they pick the only GOP candidate to call the GOP as needing, these days, to return to “sanity.” Riiiight, because jacking up spending to the moon is “sane” and wanting to return to lower spending is “insane.”
It, like most newspapers, is a democrat rag.
Obviously this publication is clueless but as any Huntsman vote are likely to come directly out of Romney’s hide this could be a good thing.
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Hey I hope it works this way: 10% peel off Romney and move to Huntsman. LOL.
It’s a frigging newspaper. What do you expect. They transcend state lines.
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