Posted on 11/04/2014 9:42:26 AM PST by Pan_Yan
If the polls hold, 2014 should be a banner year for Republicans. But Jon Hunstman Sr., a self-described "lifelong Republican" and former special assistant to President Richard Nixon, is looking ahead with concern about the Grand Old Party's 2016 prospects.
"The Tea Party has completely captivated and ruined the Republican Party today and they'll show this in 2016," says Hunstman, author of Barefoot to Billionaire. "Unless a Jeb Bush comes in or John Huntsman Jr., the Republicans don't have a prayer."
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The patriarch of the Huntsman family had a more terse reply when asked whether a 'moderate' Republican like Huntsman Jr. can win his party's nomination: "Of course not," he says.
As for Jeb Bush, Huntsman says he is "very bright and able" and "would represent the Republican party very well. But I doubt he'll be embraced too heavily by the Tea Party gang."
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IMO it was to slide in as Democrat-lite and to get along with Democrats because Democrats access the treasury, the dole and government employment as a get out the vote scheme and Republicans haven't fought or competed with that on any level.
Anyone who doesn’t love and respect the crowd that formed the Tea Party is just a bad person.
We can’t get anything good out of a bad person in this situation.
He’s just upset that conservatives have left the plantation the GOP has built...the anointed replacements are having a hard, if not impossible time taking their “rightful” place.
The days of sitting in leather wingback chairs, smoking Cubans and drinking single malt scotch while laughing about the rubes are coming to an end.
Right? That Romney branch in the Huntsman chart threw me for a loop. Gave me an 'aha' moment.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In fact, since one of the very few powers that the states have delegated to the feds to regulate an aspect of intrastate commerce is to decide policy for the US Mail Service, I think that the Constitution needs to be amended for the following reason. The states need to amend the constitution to prohibit political party support of elected federal leaders. After all, why does it take political parties to decide how the US Mail Service should be run?
I suspect the Huntsman family was not very fond of
Reagan either...
Well, in one sense he's correct; the Tea Party has ruined the Republican Party in exactly the sense that a real steak ruins a picture of a steak to a hungry man.
You see, people are waking up to see that the Republican Party means nothing of what it says [through its party-planks].
Compare these two paragraph from their site
Perhaps worst of all, the current Administration has failed to enforce the legal means for workers or employers who want to operate within the law. In contrast, a Republican Administration and Congress will partner with local governments through cooperative enforcement agreements in Section 287g of the Immigration and Nationality Act to make communities safer for all and will consider, in light of both current needs and historic practice, the utility of a legal and reliable source of foreign labor where needed through a new guest worker program. We will create humane procedures to encourage illegal aliens to return home voluntarily, while enforcing the law against those who overstay their visas.with these stories:
State efforts to reduce illegal immigration must be encouraged, not attacked. The pending Department of Justice lawsuits against Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina, and Utah must be dismissed immediately. The double-layered fencing on the border that was enacted by Congress in 2006, but never completed, must finally be built. In order to restore the rule of law, federal funding should be denied to sanctuary cities that violate federal law and endanger their own citizens, and federal funding should be denied to universities that provide in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens, in open defiance of federal law.
There they are, explicitly telling us that they plan to implement amnesty!
"I say, Lovey. These Tea Party swine are ruining the country club!"
Hey Jon. GFY in Macy’s window.
Affiliation with Nixon suggests he is part of the old stereotype of Country-club Republicans. You’d hardly expect him to agree with the Conservative end of the party.
Well, you are right, Huntsman. The likes of you and Jeb have ruined the GOP and we will never approve of you.
So tragically true.
Perhaps the Republican Party... or what it has evolved into... deserves ruin?
Apparently, this supposedly self-made millionaire does not mind things being taken away from him on behalf of the common good.
This is a guy who heavily funds embryonic stem cell research.
And Glenn Beck gave him an award.
This was the braintrust for the ‘no labels’ party that never got off the ground.
Liberals have ruined the Republican Party.
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