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Who would you vote for?
Ew, thats a tough one. How about Hillary for president and Huntsman as VP?
Ew, thats a tough one. How about Hillary for president and Huntsman as VP?
Who the hell is Huntsman?
Who would you vote for?
I'm not American, but if I were... just skimmed Huntsman's Wikipedia entry, and have the impression he's not a hardliner, but a relatively moderate Republican. So I guess he probably deserves a closer look. But I guess the problem is the party in his back. McCain seemed interesting at first too, but then he moved to the right a lot during the campaign and nominated Palin, because he doesn't even need to bother running if he doesn't activate the right-wingers too. Probably that would/will happen to Huntsman too.
Hillary, on the other side, is certainly far from perfect, but at least we know what we'd get, right? She'd probably more or less continue Obama's foreign policy that's respectful of America's European allies. She's a tough leader and certainly very experienced. And she doesn't have a religious right and hawkish neocon wing in her back.
But then, I guess my first choice would be a viable third party candidate ...
I'm not American, but if I were... just skimmed Huntsman's Wikipedia entry, and have the impression he's not a hardliner, but a relatively moderate Republican. So I guess he probably deserves a closer look. But I guess the problem is the party in his back. McCain seemed interesting at first too, but then he moved to the right a lot during the campaign and nominated Palin, because he doesn't even need to bother running if he doesn't activate the right-wingers too. Probably that would/will happen to Huntsman too.
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Huntsman ran as far to the right as possible - like all the other Republicans. He is no different and it just a concocted myth that he is.
A rightwing zealot nobody.
Who would you vote for?
Ok. I take it from other posts that he is the "religious" right, not the corporatist right.
Given that choice, I would certainly prefer him over the whore of Satan herself.
Beyond just being completely against a woman's ability to obtain an abortion, do you agree with his immigration policies?
"In June 2007, Huntsman joined other Western governors in urging the Senate to pass comprehensive immigration reform.[102] In 2005, Huntsman signed a bill giving undocumented migrants access to "driving-privilege cards", which allowed them to have driving privileges but unlike driver licenses, cannot be used for identification purposes.[103] As governor, Huntsman threatened to veto a measure repealing in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants."
1. People illegally in the United States should be given driver's license to insure they have full driving privileges.
2. That people illegally in the United States should be allowed in-state tuition, but my daughter in Florida would have to pay radically higher tuition - unless she denied she was an American citizen and instead claimed she was illegally here from another country.
Huntsman dances for the radical religious right no different than the rest, if not moreso. He advocates a total ban on abortion.
Huntsman has no chance to be the Republican nominee. After getting nowhere in his run for President, he went all bitter announcing he was boycotting all Republican functions and promptly rushed to the aid of Obama and his staff on Benghazi and on "the Dream Act." In return he has unsuccessfully sought appointment via Harry Reid including wishing to be president of the World Bank. He appears to me the worst of typical politicians willing to shift his position and loyalties on anything to climb the personal success ladder anyway possible. When he fails, he becomes bitter, changes his loyalties and pursues another path to power and fame.