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Jon Huntsman Sr.: Tea Party has ‘captivated and ruined’ the GOP
Washington Times ^ | 11/9/14 | Jessica Chasmar

Posted on 11/09/2014 9:55:34 AM PST by Nachum

Jon Huntsman Sr., father of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. and a self-described “lifelong Republican,” argued that the tea party has ruined the Republican Party, and that the GOP doesn’t stand a chance unless someone like his son is elected. “The tea party has completely captivated and ruined the Republican Party today and they’ll show this in 2016,” Huntsman Sr. said last week, Yahoo News reported. “Unless a Jeb Bush comes in or John Huntsman Jr., the Republicans don’t have a prayer.” The Chinjunior Mr. Huntsman, who unsuccessfully sought the GOP nomination in 2012, now serves as the U.S. ambassador to

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To: Nachum

He may be one of the leftist infiltrators whom I deeply believe have infiltrated the Republican Party.


21 posted on 11/09/2014 10:21:34 AM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Slyfox
That last two non-TEA Party Republican presidential candidates had their @$$e$ handed back to them.

What is especially annoying about the GOPe is their actual membership is maybe 10,000 people tops. It's amazing how so few self-interested insiders can cause so much failure and loss.

22 posted on 11/09/2014 10:22:57 AM PST by Reeses
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To: Nachum

That’s why they just took over Congress in a landslide? (No one seems to be mentioning that the TEA party helped this happen)


23 posted on 11/09/2014 10:23:17 AM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: Nachum

He meant to say “ saved and energized “ did he not?


24 posted on 11/09/2014 10:23:17 AM PST by TsonicTsunami08 (SEND BITCOIN 1CYfujvffxKKPHKvrQvLP3CDb3Z5Lu7LwM)
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To: Cicero

“Jon Huntsman Jr. was chosen as Ambassador to China by Obama”

All. You. Need. To. Know.


25 posted on 11/09/2014 10:24:50 AM PST by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: F15Eagle

What a joke! I could not think of a more foolish statement to make at this time. Its like saying the Giants suck at baseball right after they won the World Series.


26 posted on 11/09/2014 10:25:15 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Nachum

Old RINOs never die, they just sit around waiting to be interviewed so they can show how foolish they are.

If the Republican party, which now controls the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, the majority of state governorships, and the majority of state legislatures is ‘’ruined’’ because of the Tea Party, imagine how much worse off the Republicans will be in 2016 if the Tea Party continues its destructive ways by helping to elect a Republican president.


27 posted on 11/09/2014 10:25:40 AM PST by Bluestocking
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To: Nachum

Dementia is never pretty..


28 posted on 11/09/2014 10:26:52 AM PST by cardinal4 (Certified Islamophobe..)
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To: Nachum

And the Republicans were supposed to LOSE the MIDTERMS big time because they failed to pass AMNESTY, blow it out your ass Huntsman.


29 posted on 11/09/2014 10:28:06 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Nachum

In my best Thurston Howell voice: "Those mercurial fools in flyover country have absolutely ruined the Party - Lovey!"

30 posted on 11/09/2014 10:28:53 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Bluestocking
...by helping to elect a Republican president.Ted Cruz.

There. Fixed it.

31 posted on 11/09/2014 10:29:03 AM PST by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: Nachum

RINOs have captivated and ruined the Republican Party.


32 posted on 11/09/2014 10:29:18 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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To: Nachum

Sour grapes, Huntsman now go away.


33 posted on 11/09/2014 10:30:53 AM PST by JSDude1
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To: Reeses
What is especially annoying about the GOPe is their actual membership is maybe 10,000 people tops. It's amazing how so few self-interested insiders can cause so much failure and loss.

They may be few, but they have money behind them. The money of people who can get govt contracts as lomg as GOPe plays ball with the Dems.

34 posted on 11/09/2014 10:31:50 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Nachum

Huntsman must have been off planet the past week or so and missed the election..


35 posted on 11/09/2014 10:31:57 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American.. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: Nachum

LOL!

Oh yeah right....

And the election IS THE PROOF, where the Democrats got routed, that the Tea Party has captivated and ruined the GOP.......(sarcasm off)


36 posted on 11/09/2014 10:33:40 AM PST by Enlightened1
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To: Nachum

>> Jon Huntsman Sr.: Tea Party has ‘captivated and ruined’ the GOP <<

Hey Jon!

Somebody said you eat excrement sandwiches, but I stuck up for you.

I told them you don’t like bread.


37 posted on 11/09/2014 10:34:19 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Nachum

Belief in small government, personal responsibility, low taxes and, most importantly, the US Constitution.

No WONDER the GOP hates the Tea Party. They don’t have the same values!


38 posted on 11/09/2014 10:35:52 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Zimmerman, Brown, Fast & Furious, IRS harassment, Philly ignorance: holdering in 1st degree)
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To: Nachum

You know, there’s a Chinese phrase for that...


39 posted on 11/09/2014 10:35:58 AM PST by struggle
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To: Nachum
I remember back in the day we had a perfectly good Republican party. Sure we were 100 seats down to the Democrats, but we got to attend all the good cocktail parties, golf with the President and lots of porkbarrel spending for ourselves and all of our friends. Now these radical crazies are talking about cutting government and ruining all of that. What's worse is now the Republicans are in the majority so they expect us to get something done. < /grouchy old crony socialist mode>
40 posted on 11/09/2014 10:37:17 AM PST by KarlInOhio (The IRS: either criminally irresponsible in backup procedures or criminally responsible of coverup.)
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