Huntsman calls GOP congressional leadership "inconsequential"

[Lief 🗽]

It's nice to have a not-insane Republican in higher office once in a while. If only the entire party was full of them, instead of the fringe.

[Lief 🗽]

People like Huntsman and Crist and Schwarzenegger, though much more conservative than should be represented in a civilized country, understand the importance of working across with the aisle, with the party in power and the President in power, so that the lives of their constituents can be approved, while other Republicans are content to yell no and then sulk off into their corners and collect their adulations from Rush Limbaugh and Neil Cavuto.

[Lief 🗽]

People like Huntsman and Crist and Schwarzenegger, though much more conservative than should be represented in a civilized country, understand the importance of working across with the aisle, with the party in power and the President in power, so that the lives of their constituents can be approved, while other Republicans are content to yell no and then sulk off into their corners and collect their adulations from Rush Limbaugh and Neil Cavuto.

LOL

Uh huh. Like...John McCain, right?

huh?

[Lief 🗽]

People like Huntsman and Crist and Schwarzenegger, though much more conservative than should be represented in a civilized country, understand the importance of working across with the aisle, with the party in power and the President in power, so that the lives of their constituents can be approved, while other Republicans are content to yell no and then sulk off into their corners and collect their adulations from Rush Limbaugh and Neil Cavuto.

LOL

Uh huh. Like...John McCain, right?

huh?

Everything you just described Huntsman to be is what John McCain has been and you guys made him into a right wing monster.

Don't act like you're going to like Huntsman three years from now.

Because he turned into a run-of-the-mill right-wing Republican hack? He called progressive taxation socialist, for God's sake, and he's voted pretty much in lockstep with the Republican leadership this session.

[Lief 🗽]

People like Huntsman and Crist and Schwarzenegger, though much more conservative than should be represented in a civilized country, understand the importance of working across with the aisle, with the party in power and the President in power, so that the lives of their constituents can be approved, while other Republicans are content to yell no and then sulk off into their corners and collect their adulations from Rush Limbaugh and Neil Cavuto.

LOL

Uh huh. Like...John McCain, right?

huh?

Everything you just described Huntsman to be is what John McCain has been and you guys made him into a right wing monster.

Don't act like you're going to like Huntsman three years from now.

Because he turned into a run-of-the-mill right-wing Republican hack? He called progressive taxation socialist, for God's sake, and he's voted pretty much in lockstep with the Republican leadership this session.

He turned into? His record was always the same.

McCain worked across the aisle and still does. McCain has always caught the wrath of the radio talk show hosts.

Spare us the talking points, Lief. The campaign is over.

I think it's pretty undeniable that the McCain who ran in 2000 and the McCain who ran in 2008 were very different.

Your 2nd and 3rd points are ironically contradictory.

[Lief 🗽]

Huntsman is an idiot and has no conception of where the Republican Party is going.  McCain II, anyone?

And where is the republican party going?

Right.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA you are funny right there. If the move right they will never win another election in the United States of America.

What makes you say this?  When I say they are going "right" I mean in relation to McCain.  Remember that Huntsman was a big supporter of John McCain.  But the Republican Party is moving right, not left, moving toward personalities and policies like those of Palin and Jindal.

Huntsman will not get the nomination.  For two reasons (there's more, but the two main reasons): He's Mormon.  Second, traditional conservatives are going to be very suspicious of him and they will always be especially when he talks about supporting civil unions or whatnot.  Many Republicans talk about going back to their principles, but Huntsman never had any of these principles to begin with.  That is a serious problem.

Primary issues for Republicans:
1. Abortion
2. Gay marriage
3. Immigration
4. Guns
5. Foreign policy
6. Small government
7. Tax cuts

Only candidates with conservative positions on these issues will be the nominee in 2012.  Huntsman is Republican only because of his support for business interests.  That is not a good place to be.  The Republican Party is going to become more populist, more conservative, and yes, more religious.  Do not expect the Republican Party to embrace gay marriage, civil unions, or anything like that anytime soon.

No I knew what you were talking about and Palin and Jindal will never win an election, they are to far right. In a normal year Obama wouldn't have won because he is to far left. Most Presidents are Moderate right to Moderate left.

Also if the Republican party want to win over new voters, because most of their voters are dieing off(old people), then they need to move toward the middle on gay marriage, abortion etc.

How is he so far left again?