To those who keep saying John Huntsman will be the GOP nominee...

[brooklynite]

from the latest http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/A_Politics/November_Poll.pdf">NBC/WSJ Poll:

Let me read you a list of people who might seek the 2012 Republican nomination for president. If you were
voting today in the 2012 Republican primary for president, which one of the following candidates would you
favor?

Mitt Romney .............. 28%
Herman Cain .............. 27%
Newt Gingrich ............ 13%
Ron Paul ................. 10%
Rick Perry ............... 10%
Michele Bachmann ......... 4%
Rick Santorum ............ 2%
Jon Huntsman ............ 0%

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. They're all zeros, some more than others.

[valerief]

2. Huntsman will be served up on a big money platter in 2012. He'll be the GOP Clinton.

Of course, he's a scumbucket repuke, but he doesn't seem to have the crazy or the stupid like the others.

[AlinPA]

16. He needs republican votes in their primary. The money won't help him; he needs to say he is a

creationist, that he doesn't believe in them science things, that he is really not a Mormon, that he is sorry he worked in the Obama administration, that he hates gays, immigrants and anyone not white and a Christian. Then he could get some votes. Crazy rules now.

[valerief]

19. Hmm, yeah. There's only one thing he can do. The Republican Party will

have to fund him (in a Citizens Unitedy way, super secret) as an Independent. Once he's elected (in their design), he converts to Republican.

[RZM]

3. It is an odd thiing to argue

It's like arguing 4 years ago that the general election will be a matchup between Duncan Hunter and Mike Gravel.

[Schema Thing]

10. I think Mike Gravel is now doing ads for Herman Cain

I'd recognize his auteur-ship anywhere.

[dtexdem]

4. The Night of the Huntsman?

No, re Huntsman, there's not enough GOP l-o-v-e and too much h-a-t-e.

[RZM]

6. 'The Heart is a Lonely Huntsman' n/t

[blm]

5. I still think he's the nominee if Romney sinks.

He's STILL a Bush family made man.

[TwilightGardener]

7. I don't know why the GOP would trade one Mormon they don't trust

for another Mormon they don't trust who has less money, name recognition and support. Huntsman simply fails to make an impression. He's cardboard.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Check the trunk of the ClownCar -

there could be another loser-to-be trapped in there.

[lame54]

9. google lower than santorum

[sufrommich]

11. I don't know how anybody who even has a small clue about the

GOP base could ever believe Huntsman has a prayer of making it out of GOP the primaries.

[Kahuna]

12. ...

:rofl:

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. Huntsman is much, much too sane for the Rethugs.

There's no way in hell he'll be the nominee. He believes in Climate Change. Enough said.

[AlinPA]

18. Yep. He believes in science and evolution and is a Mormon.

[Bandit]

14. IMO he is the ONLY one that could even give Obama a run for the money

He is actually sane whereas the very great majority of Republicans lost their sanity years ago..

[Brother Buzz]

15. Could be, Huntsman is playing Rope-a-Dope while the others punch themselves out

That, or he simply can't find the crank for his political machine.

[AlinPA]

17. Even if he tries, where will he get the votes? Certainly not teabaggers who run the party now.