Jon Huntsman is definitely out of step with today's GOP/TP ~ and Steve Benen is definitely correct that "... this is not the year for such a development." ~ Sooz

January 08, 2012 11:20 AM
Huntsman longs for ‘a sane Republican Party'
By Steve Benen

Jon Huntsman appears to be coming to terms with the fact that he won't be the Republican presidential nominee in 2012. Ordinarily, competitive candidates who still expect to win wouldn't openly question their party's sanity in an on-the-record interview.

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In an interview Friday, the Utah governor turned China ambassador said bluntly that the GOP had lost its equilibrium in the Obama era but predicted it would eventually return to its bearings — and vindicate his own brand of pragmatism.

“I believe in the ideas put forward by Theodore White, the cycles of history,â€

I'm kinda having fun with the current republican party. They're so stupid it's funny in a weird sort of way.

Yeah, like a plane crash by the Three Stooges.

Huntsman is absolutely correct. And the current republican party scares the hell out of me. If they get the power of the govt, they will do whatever it takes to maintain it. I have been a fan of Huntsman for a long time. To be honest, I like him more than Obama and if he were to have got the nod, I would have voted for him over Obama. I have been singing Mr Huntsman's praise since he announced he was going to run. I thought between who the GOP has running and Huntsman, He would have been a shoe in. I guess I 'undersestimated' the intelligence of the GOP, which I happen to now be a registered member of. 

I think any sane person would/should be very afraid of the Republican Party as it is today.

I think the people who should be most aghast about the republican party's state of affairs are republicans themselves. If not, then they have no one else to blame but themselves when the party goes down in flames come November.

Another Republican whose "policy" is to destroy stuff rather than to improve and/or build.

i'd be a lot more scared if they were keeping it a secret.

If they were keeping it a secred you wouldn't be scared at all since you wouldn't know.

  

sure we would.  we would know by their actions, which speak much more loudly than their voices.

Mac... that's a lesson Canadians have to learn. Stephen Harper has effectively inoculated himself from the long-standing accusations that he has a secret agenda. Having chosen to ignore or heed the warnings contained in those accusation, Harper's conservative party was elected with a slim plurality. Since taking the mantles of power that a majority government affords, the conservatives are:

(1) pushing through legislation that will harden criminal penalties and expand the prison system

(2) dismantled the only protection agency that stands against predatory pricing in the food commodities markets (Canadian Wheat Board)

(3) arbitrarily changed the previously-agreed-to funding model for the healthcare system in a "take it or leave it" approach to the provincial health ministry partners.

(4) begun to dismantle the "long gun registry" AND they plan to destroy the database (which represents 10 years worth of registered rifles data from across the country)

There's more than that, but you get the gist. Sadly though - so far, Canadians seem to be in some sort of a daze as their eyes glaze over if anyone speaks out against these and other outrages. I can't help but envision a time when, after a long sleep - Canadians wake up and realize that they've allowed the evisceration of the very country they thought they loved.