Posted on 08/21/2011 10:37:20 AM PDT by Publius804
WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman says the U.S. is a "center-right" country politically and the public is "crying out for a sensible middle ground" — just what he says he offers.
The former Utah governor says his Republican rivals as well as President Barack Obama are on the political "fringes." Huntsman says Obama is too liberal and there are Republican candidates who are too far to the right and have "zero substance."
Huntsman, who's lagging in national polls, saves his harshest criticism for two of the candidates atop the 2012 pack — Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Because so many primary voters are on the "fringe."
oh, “bipartisanship”.
back to the socialism-fascism-progressism of fdr
and the democrat and republican parties since.
What an idiot, another Republican that thinks all they have to do is slow down the rate of increase in spending so that the yearly deficit grows at a slower rate.
He should quit now!
How many Freepers actually support Huntsman? One...two...?
I do not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Huntsman,_Jr.
Huntsman was born March 26, 1960 in Palo Alto, California. His mother is Karen Haight Huntsman, daughter of LDS Church apostle David B. Haight.[2] His father is billionaire businessman and philanthropist Jon Huntsman of the Huntsman Corporation.[3] Through his father, Huntsman, Jr. is the great-great-great-grandson of early LDS Church leader Parley P. Pratt,[4] and a third cousin, once-removed, of politician Mitt Romney.[4]
Why is this guy even bothering?
Possibly he is a stalking horse to help make Romney seem more palatable...
The job of the Leader of the Free World is to move the Center, NOT CHASE IT!
He just proved he could never be president.
A more complete article on his comments.
“Huntsman slammed Perry for expressing skepticism about manmade global warming and for criticizing the nation’s central banker. “I think when you find yourself at an extreme end of the Republican Party, you make yourself unelectable,” Huntsman said in interview, aired Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.””
Huntsman is just trying to stay visible to the moderates and independents until we get to the “open” primaries using the McCain example.
If the tea party wants to win, they should start running DINOs in ‘Rat primaries. There are conservative registered ‘Rats out there. Why wage only half a war?
LOL!
Who writes this stuff, his mother?
Huntsman <1%...
The word "lagging" is all they can muster?
Huntsman is a Mormon, as such he believes he is going to become the “god” of his own planet! ON top of that, he believes he is going to have perpetual sex with his “celestial wife” who in turn is going to pump out “spirit children” like the queen Alien from the movie “Aliens” and her “spirit children” spawn are going to populate this planet and they are going to WORSHIP god Huntsman. This is what he believes, and he has the gaul to say that his political opponents are on the fringe!
Huntsman is a scumbag.
Mika Brzezinski insisted.
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
And there is NO record since the flood that this promise has not been kept. Old divinity student algore should know better than to play god and Huntsman demonstrates his willingness to believe man's created deceptions.
comrade obama ordered his china ambassador to come home and confuse the pubies.
Huntsman? Huntsman? Never heard of him.
Huntsman is the dream candidate for the DUmp - methinks they’re just trying to hedge their bets.
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