“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!