Posted on 05/22/2011 7:35:09 AM PDT by libstripper
As an aside, who do you think the Dems will support? My guess is Mittens.
They will support whoever their perceive to be the weakest candidate...probably Mittens.
“Huntsman has access to his family’s BILLION(s).
Going beyond that he’s about 20 years out of date concerning the issues.”
Just exactly what I thought. We don’t need this guy, but I guess he has nothing else to do.
“Why would Daniels supporters be behind this Huntsman dude. He’s from the West. The Daniels supporters, as with the Pawlenty supporters are MIDWESTERNERS.”
I didn’t realize that we were restricted to supporting candidates by geography. That might come as news to all the Palin supporters in the Lower 48.
“BTW, Huntsman has no record worthy of Daniels sweaty jockstrap. So, please, keep your points straight and consistent”
You may know sweaty jockstraps, but you don’t know much about ‘straight and consistent’. They’re both “moderates”, to use the CS Monitor’s phrase:
“Huckabee’s decision could tempt the fence-sitting Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels or perhaps former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman. Or it may cause them to take a harder look at the reasons not to run – especially the cost to family of a year spent on the road and under constant personal scrutiny.
As moderates, Governor Daniels and Mr. Huntsman might expect to have a tough fight in Iowa and South Carolina – early nominating states where Huckabee did very well in 2008, and where social conservatives will have much to say about who succeeds in the race’s first days.”
If we use Daniels actions as a line in the sand, all the Republican candidates, including Palin, fall short, particularly when it involves public employee unions.
Remember, Teddy Roosevelt said "Speak softly and carry a big stick". That's pretty much what Daniels was doing ~ at the same time he knew that there were a wide variety of folks who were going to criticizing him for taking back his wayward wife, many of them right here in FR. As he stated his reason for not running, he mentioned that.
Those old boys all know each other because their states have to deal with the others around them.
Obama got more than one vote in that region simply because he knew where those states were and had been there. He ran his functional campaign headquarters from Bloomington Indiana!
Plus if Romney does win, they will be getting the next best (liberal) presidential candidate in the running other than Obama. Win, win for them.
Judging from the past and seeing the crap—yes crap— that New Hampshire has picked, I would say we are spitting against the wind.
Other states need to move their primaries up.
To the same day.
Daniel’s actions seem to be a lot better than what he has to say. There’s more than a bit of cognitive dissonance going on with that guy. He either doesn’t mean what he says, or he does mean it and his actions aren’t in sync with what he believes.
Either way I don’t trust Daniels any more than I did Schwarzenegger, another fraud pushed by opportunistic jerks in the GOP. I’ve had my fill of GOP “moderates”. They can do as much, if not more, damage than Democrats. A plague on both their houses.
” He ran his functional campaign headquarters from Bloomington Indiana!”
I guess Bloomington has changed since the days when the American Spectator ran its operation there.
“Did you realize that the states of Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio have about the same territory as California, but 25% more population ~ + they have 10 US Senators?”
I know that San Bernardino County alone is larger than nine of the States. There have been occasional half-hearted efforts to split California into two or three States. Outright secession might be good as well, it might improve the survival chances of the rest of the country. I’m open to suggestions on how we should draw the boundaries.
This Jon doesn’t Hunt........
“The Leftwingtard press used their standard “look at the funny soundbyte we excised” strategy and you guys lapped it up like trained kitty cats”
I heard the Daniels’ clips on Limbaugh. You’ll need to tell him he’s become a ‘Leftwingtard’ dupe.
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