Posted on 12/05/2011 6:21:33 AM PST by St. Louis Conservative
Tax cutter. Those lifetime lessons have made a big impact. Huntsman, like Thatcher, seems to be a conservative of intuition derived from personal experience. Huntsman a conservative? As governor, he massively cut income and sales taxes — instituting a 5 percent flat income tax — while expanding the state’s “rainy day” reserve fund. His approach to healthcare reform relied on markets rather than mandates. As the Club for Growth describes it, “Utah’s main health reform contained no individual mandate, no employer mandate, and has very limited regulatory authority. … It empowers individuals to take ownership of their own health insurance and to choose coverage that works for them.”
If elected president, Huntsman says he would like to slash tax rates to their lowest levels since before America entered World War One and eliminate taxes on capital gains and dividends. Powerful supply-side medicine for an anemic economic recovery. Huntsman has embraced Rep. Paul Ryan’s transformational, market-oriented, debt- reduction plan, calling it “the model I would work from.” He’s also pro-life, a dedicated free trader and – at least as evidenced by his sweeping bank reform plan — an ardent anti-crony capitalist.
Of course, conservatives would sure like more details about Huntsman’s views on dealing with climate change. And just how would he match defense cuts that might reduce spending to Clinton-era levels with superpower America’s global commitments and power-projection capabilities? A lot more clarity is needed there. And the Club charges Huntsman with being disinterested in cutting spending when governor.
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Huntsman is the David Frum of candidates.
sure, he has some conservative stances, but he delights more in attacking conservatives than in attacking liberals. Huntsman opened his campaign by fellating Global Warming cultists and appearing in a puff piece in Vanity Fair, for pete’s sake.
Thatcher he ain’t.
I don't remember Gingrich working in the Reagan administration, being CEO of his family's corporation, winning re-election with 77% of the vote,introducing Sarah Palin at the Republican convention, and under him utah was named the best managed state by Pew, and a top 3 state to do business in, and #1 in job growth (Wikipedia).
or his contract with America,
The elements of which went on to be signed into law...oh, wait... But at least he made a nice symbolic victory. And later sat down with Nancy Pelosi and supported something that looks suspiciously like the kind of healthcare we all hate. And Global Warming. I could go on.
or winning back the congress for the first time in 40 years........
And then giving Clinton all the cover he needed to avoid being driven from office with his own personal life.
Gee, answering your post has me liking Huntsman even more.
Captain Queeg was never a real conservative. He was too much in love with himself and pandered to the media.
Huntsman’s record is much more conservative. He has a reputation on FR for being a liberal, but his record in Utah is solildly conservative. Like I said, he’s worth a look.
So just last week you were giving me your anti-Bush positions and blaming him for 9/11 and now I see you also support the anti-military leftist John Huntsman.
If this is your definition of a social liberal, I’ll vote for it every time.
Huntsman is strongly pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, pro-growth (lower the tax rates and close loopholes), pro-school voucher and free market advocate.
Economically speaking, Utah was one of the best managed states and model for economic development. Spending increased, but waste decreased, the Rainy Day fund tripled, books were balanced and in fact they had surpluses. Huntsman turned in a balanced budget every year. And he is eminently electable. Absolute quality if people ever wake up.
He’s so good he’s at 2%!
It’s tough to get past Huntsman’s “concilliatory announcement” of his run, when he stood in exactly the same place as where Reagan once stood and absolutely pummeled Jimmy Carter. And Huntsman needs to shake his head, acknowledge that the email leaks of 2009 and a month ago have completely exposed “global warming” as a total scam, and call for the criminal prosecution of the crooked “climate scientists” behind it.
Mostly, I need to know this guy’s record on judges. Will “Mr. Concilliatory Nice Guy” appoint “moderates” in order to get along, or will he go with Federalist Society-approved, “original intent” judicial appointments and fight to the death for thier confirmation?
Huntsman was at 5% in the last national poll. Which is how he is eligible for the Dec 10 Iowa debate.
Mostly because name recognition is still 30-40% behind the other candidates half the country still doesn’t have the foggiest idea who he is. Not bad for 6 months though at 10% + in New Hampshire - compared to Romney’s 6 years, Paul’s third try, and of course Newt who has been around forever.
And Obama’s at, what, 44%? I guess you think he’s great.
I couldn’t care less where someone is in the race. If I look at his/her record and decide it’s worthy of my support, I don’t look for a crowd.
Or maybe he was serving his country by representing its interests overseas?
He’s not anti-military at all. He’s the only candidate with a plan for the future of the military.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/22/opinion/huntsman-foreign-policy/index.html
Dancing to the tune called by Obama and Hillary.
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