Jon Huntsman for President! (of the MSM)
**Written by Doug Powers
File this story under either “possibly coming soon to a Huntsman GOP primary opponent’s ad near you” or “Jon Huntsman hires Chris Matthews as ghost writer.”
Jon Huntsman, President Obama’s outgoing ambassador to China, is considering running against his boss in 2012 as a Republican.
But two handwritten letters from Huntsman obtained by The Daily Caller raise the question of why he’s not campaigning for Obama instead.
“You are a remarkable leader,” Huntsman wrote to Obama in an Aug. 16, 2009 note, underlining the word “remarkable,” “and it has been a great honor getting to know you.”
In an Aug. 10, 2009 letter to former President Bill Clinton, Huntsman was similarly effusive.
“I have enormous regard for your experience, sense of history and brilliant analysis of world events. Please save some time for me when I’m next in New York,” Huntsman said.
I imagine even Charlie Crist is saying, “dude, what were you thinking?”
Word is that Huntsman trained for writing these sycophantic letters by watching a tape loop of Eddie Haskell brown-nosing Mrs. Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver.
If the presidential thing doesn’t work out for Huntsman, he’ll definitely be in the running for a leadership position somewhere in the mainstream media.
**Written by Doug Powers
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A third party candidate has won, Lincoln was the last. There were others before. It’s only been since 1860 that we’ve put on the R and D straitjacket.
If we stay on this Rockefeller plantation, we’ll be holding our noses into slavery.
And we want to try this now ?
Before all of us gets twisted on the White House … the Senate is attainable and the House is securable and think we really need to be concentrating on that .. the White is a bonus
Unless you get rid of a whole bunch of RINO Senators, winning the Senate gets us nothing. There will be gangs formed to help the Dem/communists get their way.
Here we go again, it’s NEVER the right time to do the right thing. No guts, no glory. Besides, Trump doesn’t have to win to doom the GOP and make Obama the weakest president in history. Try to follow an election where the winner gets only 38% or so and the GOP comes in 3rd. You don’t think that things in DC would change? The Tea Party would be large and in charge.
Every sewer unblockage involves moving the floaters aside
We got to win what we can win at a minimum.
Besides, just because something never happened before (and Lincoln WAS a 3rd party candidate) doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try when the numbers clearly show that it is possible. If it isn’t possible, why then are both parties apoplectic that Trump is running? The GOP is whining that Trump guarantees that Obama gets re-elected. Then why are the Dems apoplectic? Obviously, Trump could win. The only way to prevent him from running independent, the only way he can win, is for the GOP to stop being the Assistant Democrat party.
In order for that to happen, we need to get new leadership this year. No point talking about primaries until that is resolved. We must be winning because all of a sudden, Rove is doing all of the talking.
Is this referral to my comment?
Clumsy sentence:
The only way to prevent him [Trump] from running independent, which is the only way he can win, is for the GOP to stop being the Assistant Democrat party.
I agree or should I say agreed until just recently. I’ve argued that point on many different posts but then I saw a speech by Charles Krauthammer at a Pa gathering that changed my mind. He convinced a lot of people (myself included)that keeping Obama out of the oval office for a second term is paramount. If he stays put so does obamacare and then its a downhill slid from there. Krauthammer spelled out how if it ever gets implemented, we will never get rid of it. The key to that is to not let Obama get another term. I’ll try and see if this speech is linked any where and post it, it was awesome.
Phil,
I think what you’re saying is similar to what I’m thinking.
Trump doesn’t run at all if the GOP doesn’t nominate one of the RINO five.
Yes. Not meant as an insult and I’m assuming I understood what you meant. “It’s the wrong time” is a common argument for doing the wrong thing. We can’t risk it today, maybe later. So we end up doing the same thing over and over again.
The Senate is a lost cause even if we get 60 Republicans because there just aren’t enough conservatives to offset the “Gangs of McCain”.
We already control the House and had an even bigger majority during the Bush years and yet look what they did. We can’t even defeat the Boehner crap sandwich that accepted a $350 million allowance cut in delivering their pledge to cut $100B.
It’s not the numbers, it’s the one-party corruption. The kabuki is so brazen that they don’t even care when they are caught on an open mike or conference call. We need to change the character of Washington and making a mess of the “two-party” elections next year is our best opportunity to do that.
If we elect Romney, they’ll just change the name to Romneycare, his was the first. They modeled Obamacare on Romneycare.
To get rid of Obamacare requires repeal. The House “leadership” refused to defund it.
Implementation could have been tied up in knots without money.
Agreed. That is exactly right. The polls for Trump won’t look good if the Tea Party conservatives aren’t pissed off and so he won’t run. I expect Hillary to give Obama a nasty time of it in the primaries because she and Bill are still fuming at having the race card used on them in 2008. This is her last chance and I doubt if she cares if she wins.
With Ted Kennedy dead, the best thing the Clintons could do for the Democratic Party would be to revive the Democratic Leadership Council. With Obama losing in 2012 to a conservative and rejuvenated GOP, it is hard to see how the Kennedy wing could survive. That’s Howard Dean and his communist friends.
There is lots at stake in 2012 and it’s not whether or not Obama wins that matters, it’s how the whole thing plays out. Without Trump, the kabuki continues. With Trump, the one-party machine is wrecked.
We are now seeing the parade of candidates speaking to the Tea Party. I think it is not too early to inform the GOP, Rove, Hannity, etc. etc. etc.that the Tea Party will sit this one out if an establishment RINO gets nominated.
I for one only voted for McCain, because Palin was the VP nominee. This time that’s not enough.
I could compromise with the Democrats. I really could. The problem is there are no Democrats left to compromise with. The people in the Democrat Party are not Democrats. Democrats like JFK, Mike Mansfield, and Sam Rayburn believed in the Constitution. Do Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Durban, or Kerry?
We are at war to save our Constitution. Our opponents, friends of Barack, are publically acknowledged Marxists who feel checks and balances are impediments to “Change.” The Constutuion will limit the ability to bring about “social justice.”
The GOP is as ready to confront this enemy as France was ready to confront the Germans in 1940.
If the TEA party goes Trump, I’m out!
Sorry for monopolizing the threads the past two days. I’m just trying to get people to see the opportunity instead of getting stuck on the usual concerns. I’d hate to see us blow this big opportunity.
I still haven’t seen anything other than thinking Palin is the one, and Trump is going to get her there regardless of her weaknesses.
I don’t see Hillary challenging Barky. As much as they may be seething over 2008, they are good party comrades.
I could see the Clinton’s resurecting the DLC if Barky loses.
Right on target.
We must NOT sit out ANY elections. Had the 7-8 million southern Reagan conservatives not stayed home in 2008 and voted instead for any 3rd party candidate (forget about whether or not you agree with the candidate, it’s a secret ballot), I voted for Bob “the builder” Barr, the denominator would have changed Obama’s winning tally from 52% to somewhere around 46-47%. That matters because he couldn’t have claimed a mandate nor claim that he was the first to win the majority of the vote since Bush 41.
Sitting it out is always a bad decision. We need to get over the nonsense that having no Dem or Rep to vote for, we shouldn’t vote. It matters. It’s Perot who denied Clinton a mandate and majority.
My bad Phil. “Sitting out” was a poor choice of words. Yes, we will be voting.
Palin, Cain, Bachmann, West.
We need an outsider like one of these people.
I’m still a little concerned about Palin, she was taken behind the curtain as VP candidate and hasn’t backed away from amnesty. I still have worries that she’s Plan B if the RINO Five blows up in their face.
Hi Virginia!
Have you seen this yet?
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/BarackObama-FederalElectionCommission-Investigation-2008PresidentialElection/2011/04/16/id/393093?s=al&promo_code=C18E-1
She quit ….
Regardless of why, it will be a non-starter for her IMO
No, thanks for the link.
Someone is blackmailing Barack Obama?
As an alert, the Daily Caller published a blurb that the Federal Elections Commission is starting an investigation into all the strange finance of Barack Hussein Obama’s 2008 campaign.
This is most intriguing as the Rothschilds have blackmailed and bribed everyone into silence from Darrell Issa to Nancy Pelosi for Obama, and is why Obama is so damn smug in knowing he just stole the 2012 elections again.
As this blog has been the lone voice hammering about this, and I will give credit to Robert Morton of the World Tribune group which is connected to the Washington Times for allowing my laser revelations to be posted there as comments which most people do not know what the hell I’m talking about………it appears someone was listening large on this, and the Rothschilds can not get to them, and more importantly it means someone is screwing with Barack Hussein Obama in a non floss way.
For a reminder:
There was 300 million dollars in terrorist Middle Eastern counterfeit cash which flowed into Obama’s campaign in 2008.
That money was laundered through the credit card companies using sleeper cards of US Citizens which they had no idea of in the majority. That is why all those credit card numbers were hijacked in 2007 as this was being set up.
For the kicker, TARP was used to pay off this massive fraud and is why the credit card companies were the only folks having no financial difficulties in 2008 and 2009.
It was this hundreds of millions of dollars in free money which kept them silent as Obama imposed his vision of the credit card industry on them.
This 300 million went like all Obama money as kickbacks to key backers as the Solicitor General who was fired was beginning to expose in one of Obama’s cronies in California in that Johnson basketball player.
It is past time that Penny Pritzker, Barack Obama, David Plouffe, Val-erie Jarrett and David Axelrod with Eric Holder keeping this all from being investigated are indicted.
It is a DISGRACE that Darrell Issa was bribed off of all of these Obama crimes.
The Daily Caller blurb I post with their link below.
This is what we have been waiting for children, as if we can get heat on this, it will not matter what the hell Darrell Issa and John Boehner sold out for no matter what cover Eric Holder provides, as Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are going to rip Obama to hell on this, and this group of Islamic mafia money dry cleaning crooks will go to prison.
Happy days!
April 17, 2011
FEC launches audit of Obama’s 2008 campaign
The Federal Election Commission has launched an audit into President Barack Obama’s record-breaking 2008 campaign.
Individuals familiar with the campaign told Roll Call Friday that the FEC has been investigating the financial records of Obama’s previous campaign. The scope of the probe, which began approximately two years ago, is unknown. Presidential audits typically take years to complete and can cost millions of dollars.
The newly formed 2012 Obama campaign did not deny there was an audit, but a spokeswoman called it a “review.”
Full story: FEC launches audit of Obama’s 2008 campaign
LC
OK,
You talking about her resigning as the Gov. in Alaska? It won’t help her, but I don’t think it’s an impossible hurdle.
Cain is my preference, but then again I was a Duncan Hunter supporter last time……
You have given me a reason to live again.
The dirty money poured into Owebowmao 2008 should have been the first thing Issa looked into.
After Fred Thompson let John Glenn shut down the investigation of the Chinese money in the Clinton 1996 campaign, I’ve become skeptical that anything will ever be done.
Does the FEC have any real power?
Pasadena Phil said:
You have given me a reason to live again.
I’m as thrilled as you are.
*********
Virginia Patriot
Does the FEC have any real power?
I sure as hell hope so.
*********
Zippity doo dah, Zippity aye,
My oh my what a wonderful day
Plenty of sunshine coming my way,
Zippity doo dah, Zippity aye.ZIPPI
Mister blue bird’s on my shoulder,
it’s the truth,
it’s actual,
everything’s satisfactual!
Zippity doo dah,
zippity aye,
My oh my what a wonderful day!
Open question:
Could The Donald be behind this???
My mind is racing at the moment.
Obama will be taken outby a meteor first.
We remain the French in 1940…….
Such as, “That’s a lovely dress you have on today Mrs. Cleaver.”?
No, he was just the type to think he might get lucky.
Huntsman excites me as much as Romney.
The GOP are the Vichy French, we are the resistance….
I think we should be the 8th Air Force.
Phil, Patriot, count me in with you guys. I am Independent, because I have not cared for the Rockefeller wing since they did in Goldwater (I was only 15). I have never been as proud of the American people as I have been in the last two years. There is an awakening, and those who don’t get it need to get defeated.
If that requires an overhaul of the GOP or a third party I don’t care. I know this, I refuse to vote for anyone I consider a RINO. My sense is that if we feel this way, so do countless others. The Tea Party is not so easily intimidated or told to shut up and put in its place (As I heard one of the liberals suggest).
Or Patton’s Third Army.
We are kind of like the resistance in that we’re fighting our erstwhile brothers (GOP) and the Nazis (Dems) at the same time. There won’t be anybody landing at Normandy to save us, though.
We’re on our own.
Glad to have you and anyone else who wants to join us. I’ve been an independent since November 2006 after Bush created the November catastrophe over the Kennedy/Bush/McCain amnesty bill. Last straw. It has only gone downhill since.
My uncle served in Patton’s 3rd army as a tank driver. He was wounded at the battle of the bulge which finally took him out of the war.
The discussion at the range this morning bears out what you’re saying. Lots of disgust with the GOP leadership, some support for Trump because he’s actually fighting back, resolve to change the GOP or kill it.
We’ve already seen that Karl Rove and Co would rather burn it down than let conservatives take over.
Why is anyone still listening to the architect of amnesty as the salvation of the GOP? Terminally stupid plan.
Ironically, my good friend who recently died told me all about this in…. 1971. Everything he predicted has been unfolding rapidly. Its now or never for this crowd, and if it were easy, they would have already accomplished their goals. But it is not just the Democrats. The Republican leadership is definitely complicit. If one can control two sides of the debate, they always win. The Tea Party has changed the debate.
Huntsman, is too normal. The GOP base, which has been overrun by the Tea Party, will choose someone that will appeal to the lowest common denominator: i.e. Trump, Palin (if she has the guts to run, instead of making money off of TPers), Bachmann, etc.
FIFM
Virginia Patriot, for you, anything to the left of Attila the Hun would be “liberal”.
Attilla the Hun rightly belongs on the left as he was not in favor of liberty and freedom. Totalitarians are all leftists. National Socialists included.
Hitler, Stalin, Mao have nothing in common with Jefferson, Washington, Madison.
Alinsky… you magnificent bastard, *I read your book*!
My father was in Patton’s Third Army.
Jon Huntsman looks like the love child of Peter Murphy (of Bauhaus) and the late Spalding Gray. Just felt like mentioning it.
Of course, there is no one who is extreme right, they’re ALL extreme left (sarcasm). I think you’ve been brainwashed by Jonah Goldberg. Hitler hated gays, Jews, minorities, just like Dem….oh wait, they don’t (gays, Jews, and minorities tends to vote largely Democratic). Oh pssst…Hitler and Stalin hated eachother they weren’t friends bc they were on opposite ends of the spectrum as Hitler thought communism was a Jewish conspiracy. He labeled his group National Socialism as if he was was for the common man – until he got into power and started targeting those same groups, like trade unions. Try reading the dictionary -it may help you: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fascism
1. any ideology or movement inspired by Italian Fascism, such as German National Socialism; any right-wing nationalist ideology or movement with an authoritarian and hierarchical structure that is fundamentally opposed to democracy and liberalism
2. any ideology, movement, programme, tendency, etc, that may be characterized as right-wing, chauvinist, authoritarian, etc
“A system of government that flourished in Europe from the 1920s to the end of World War II. Germany under Adolf Hitler, Italy under Mussolini, and Spain under Franco were all fascist states. As a rule, fascist governments are dominated by a dictator, who usually possesses a magnetic personality, wears a showy uniform, and rallies his followers by mass parades; appeals to strident nationalism; and promotes suspicion or hatred of both foreigners and “impure” people within his own nation, such as the Jews in Germany. Although both communism and fascism are forms of totalitarianism, fascism does not demand state ownership of the means of production, nor is fascism committed to the achievement of economic equality. In theory, communism opposes the identification of government with a single charismatic leader (the “ cult of personality”), which is the cornerstone of fascism. Whereas communists are considered left-wing, fascists are usually described as right-wing.”
Your problem is rooted in a European view of the political spectrum.
1776 changed all that over here. Leftists want government control od all aspects of life, conservatives want Fedzilla put back into its Constitutional cage, where the founders intended for it to stay.
Darn that proletariat don’t those peasants know to leave governin to those smart folks like the dimotards since they is doin sech a great job and all. What are those peasants thinking? Only left leaning citizens are allowed to get in groups and influence policy or politicians or elect those people that believe as they do. Screw everyone else they can suffer eh?
Tell us Stalin should we suppress them too before they influence other voters or should we just take their right to vote away since they don’t agree with your point of view?
bbinfl #151,
Nice retort !
When using “definitions” that say things are “characterized” or “considered”, one should realize that the answer is not necessarily correct.
Fascism was government control of private institutions. Government control is not a right wing philosophy. Fascism is autocratic in nature and led by a person in a dictatorial manner. Sorry, but ignoring centuries of contract law to hand the auto companies over to the unions is more fascist than anything I can recall.
I know that fascist is a favored slur, but try to use the actual meaning instead of the one you wish were true.
The definition confuses nationalism (a populist impulse) with political philosophy. Fascists are just the nationalist type of socialists. All socialist leaders of nations quickly become fascists, even if they did not start out that way. They have to protect the interests of the nation they control. It is their power base.
You are suffering from the consequences of too much blind ideology in academia. The ideology sprouts up in twisted thinking like we see in that definition of fascism.
Prior to the American Revolution, the Left was the side that opposed the centralization of power. The Right supported it. Sometime in the 19th Century the practical meanings of Left and Right switched. It probably came about because the old Left ‘won,’ so now the really stupid types who cannot see obvious patterns even when their noses are rubbed in it see the people trying to defend individual liberty as the ‘powerful’ people, so opposing them is somehow ‘leftist.’
So now the modern twisted ‘Left’ supports increasing the power of the King (the State) to use against the interests of the ‘powerful’ people, who are anyone with more money than they have.
It really is simple and obvious. To see it, you just have to be able to question authority.
Just a bit of food for thought here, dem…
After two years of liberal/progressive policies being forced down our throats (and another two years of liberal Congress in the Bush administration), we have the beginning of runaway inflation, $4.00+ gas prices, a disaster in the Middle East, so many stringent regulations that small businesses are being destroyed, debt so horrendous that our grandchildren will NEVER be successful financially…it will all go to paying our debt…illegal immigrants swarming into this country and going on the public dole, much much more. If you are a democrat after all this proof, then I seriously question your patriotism.
Dem…you seem to be pretty informed, at least in the liberal mindset. But believe me, you have been brainwashed by the public school system, not taught the true history of this amazing nation, and do not understand the true meaning of freedom, liberty, free market, creative entrepreneurialism, small government and personal responsibility.
Thanks to the welfare-state, nanny-state mindset of the progressives, we now have about half this country unemployed and on the public dole. The other half is paying for it. That is.not.sustainable. Watch for the crash, brought to you by the progressive/communist movement.
Communism has NEVER worked. NEVER.
Attila the Hun would be pretty much a mainstream Progressive and one of Bambi’s Czars. Janet Reno bore a striking resemblance to Attila-Cass Sunstein does too although a tad more effeminate than either Attila or Janet.
A few more points to make to dem…
Have you ever wondered why this country, unique of all the other countries of the world, is the MOST FREE, MOST FINANCIALLY SUCCESSFUL, MOST POWERFUL, BEST IN MILITARY, FIRST IN OUTREACH TO OTHER COUNTRIES IN NEED, MOST CREATIVE (check out the number of inventions and discoveries here in the U.S. vs all other countries combined), I could go on for a long time about the amazing things this country has accomplished and provided to the rest of the world. The point is, our system has worked, and worked better than any other system on earth. Why would you democrat/progressives want to change that??? I really don’t understand. Why would you mess with success? To achieve “fairness”? Maybe you don’t understand…if you divided all the wealth in the country equally between all of its citizens, in just a few short years, the ones who were originally wealthy, would again be wealthy, and the ones who were poor would again be poor. It is not how much money you GIVE someone, it is what they DO with that money. Some invest in a money-making enterprise. Some spend it on drugs, gambling, and other foolishness. Some are just not capable of taking care of themselves, no matter how much money you GIVE them.
Oh, and by the way…what country is it that millions of immigrants from those communist/socialist countries pour into for a taste of freedom and OPPORTUNITY? Oh yeah, that would be the United State of America. At least for now…until the regressives succeed in destroying the American Dream for the entire world.
By the way, if you support Obama and his thugs, you. are. my. enemy!!
Ah the TEA kettle is whistling Yankee Doodle Dandy-time to brew a pot. For years I only drank coffee but for the last several years I have developed a taste for TEA. After having a cup-perhaps two-I shall over
funrun the Republican Party and re-read Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism and then MMCulture of Corruption.
Perhaps I’ll do so at Starbucks, using the NY Times as a coaster.
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God Bless America
Except for the blue states
On April 18th, 2011 at 10:17 am,
Good morning, AZ! May I suggest a cup of Earl Grey? Or perhaps some pomegranate/green tea? Both excellent choices.
Speaking of Yankee Doodle Dandy, maybe I will go out and rent that movie…James Cagney was always one of my favorites!
Earl Grey & James Cagney it shall be!
Yankee Doodle all
Thanks for the link, AZ! Loved it!
All Obama knows is the lowest common denominator. He is the king of the know nothings and do nothings. The Tea Party has wisdom the Democrats at their own peril ignore. Same goes for the GOP establishment, which btw, you see as “normal”.
Huntsman is too normal?
Watching a little too much of the
Sci-Fi channel are we?
But we Right Wing Extremist of the Lowest Common Denominator (aka Bitter Clingers) await your enlightened advice.
I still haven’t heard Levin call Trump a chump, I rarely read face book which of course is in print.
happy, #’s 155 and 157, well said.