Don't rule out Huntsman rising after New Hampshire

[malaise]

That is all

[postulater]

1. Is he a more moderate republican?

Would he push Obama more to the left? Maybe I'll vote for him in my primary.

[nevergiveup]

3. The media gives attention to Huntsman because they know

he is the one candidate who could give Obama fits. The Republicans, on the other hand, could give a shit about him. He is barely on their radar screen. New Hampshire is Huntsman's strongest early primary state and he is polling at 6 to 10%? His candidacy is a joke.

[MineralMan]

4. Huntsman is History after Hampshire.

Santorum'll Bore 'Em

That'll Be All, Paul.

Perry Ain't Merry.

Omni for Romney. (excuse my Latin.)

Slogans for 2012 GOP Candidates above.

We Can Do It Again! - Obama slogan, and we will.

[spanone]

5. well, he's the only clown that hasn't had his nose lit

[IMG][/IMG]

[malaise]

9. Ding ding we have a winner

[customerserviceguy]

6. Not gonna happen

Even if he came in at a surprising second, he just won't do well in either South Carolina or Florida, and its a long slog until there are serious amounts of delegates up for grabs in March.

He just doesn't have the money to keep going, his only hope was a Romney knock-out in New Hampshire and that required a very poor performance by Mittens in Iowa.

[oberliner]

7. Hunstman will drop out after New Hampshire

That is all

[grillo7]

8. I have to politely disagree

Huntsman is the most sane of the whole lot, which means he's guaranteed to be completely off the radar for most of the right.

[right on maude...]

10. Is he placing in the top three in NH?

And what is his foreign policy? I have found him to be very reasonable but I am not sure that he's a dove.

[tammywammy]

12. I think he can place 3rd

As for foreign policy:
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politicalintelligence/2012/01/huntsman/DkgBKLAPIWIop0mqbOQ9QO/index.html
http://www.thenation.com/blog/165483/huntsman-better-foreign-policy-alternative-paul
http://jon2012.com/issues/foreign-policy

There's a lot of articles if you Google "Huntsman foreign policy"

I don't think anyone should discount Huntsman at this point.

[AlinPA]

11. Why Huntsman can’t win the republican primaries:

1. He supported civil unions as Governor of Utah
2. He said he would not use federal powers to block a law legalizing same-sex marriage.
3. He threatened to veto a bill repealing in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants.
4. He signed a bill giving illegal aliens access to “driving-privilege cards”.
5. He supports granting more H-1B visas to foreigners
6. He has not taken an anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic stance.
7. He signed the Western Climate Initiative, by which Utah joined with other governments in agreeing to pursue targets for reduced production of greenhouse gases.
8. He appeared in an advertisement sponsored by Environmental Defense, in which he said, “Now it’s time for Congress to act by capping greenhouse-gas pollution"
9. He worked in the Obama administration as an ambassador to China
10. He said he believes in science
11. He said he believes in evolution.
12. He has said that President Obama is an American citizen.
13. He is too rational, too normal, too genteel for most of today’s conservatives.

[Raine1967]

13. I rule not one GOP candidate out until they officially suspend their campaign.

Right now the media is even having a hard time saying Romney is the Front runner. It's nuts. They keep looking for a story. Today Santorum is leading the media -- but who the hell knows?

Let me put it this way, the media is in love with Santorum today, they don't want to be in love with Romney.

I will tell you this, I wouldn't be surprised if they gave him 2 days of glorious media popularity. I still think we will face Romney as the candidate but he is so boring that the media is just trying to keep people interested in the race until the general.

It's all about the media right now. The GOP candidates are really awful and and the media is trying to drive a narrative.