Huntsman: Romney ‘Completely Out of Touch’

[brooklynite]

ABC News:

Jon Huntsman is finally attracting big crowds and taking the fight to Mitt Romney.

I just interviewed him after a raucous campaign stop in Concord, N.H. He told me Romney’s “I like to fire people” comment shows he is “completely out of touch” with what’s going on the country. “I don’t like to fire people, I like to create jobs,” Huntsman said.

He has never been so harshly critical of Romney. A top Huntsman aide added: Romney “will rue the day he said that.”

The Huntsman crowds are bigger and more enthusiastic than ever and he obviously feels a momentum change. “We need to prove we can move the market here,” Huntsman said.

Saturday morning, I saw Huntsman at a Senior Center with at most 100 people; amazing what 24 hours can do...

[elleng]

1. Good to see this, good for our democracy,

but somehow I suspect he won't get very far in SC.

[Stuart G]

2. Anything is possilbe..probably not, but who knows for sure???nt

[brooklynite]

3. True, but my guess is he hopscotches to Florida...

...letting Santorum, Perry and Newt fight it out for the bible-thumper vote.

[elleng]

4. You're probably right;

won't waste his time where little fodder for him, but could be quite a large number of 'informed voters' in Florida. (Notice I said 'could.' Fla's been doing really nutty things lately.)

[Mojorabbit]

7. The big players here in central Fl

are piling on the Newt bus so he must be the ordained one here.

[Common Sense Party]

5. I'm not sure how retired Florida Republicans will like

Huntsman calling for means testing of SS and Medicare, though...

[elleng]

10. If they were rational and wealthy

they SHOULDN'T object, but I know those asssumptions don't work so well.

[Liberal Veteran]

6. He's right, as opposed to himself who is only mostly out of touch.

[grantcart]

9. DUzy great.

[Uncle Joe]

8. I agree with Huntsman, Romney is a corporate supremacist

and corporate supremacists; by their very nature can't be in touch with the people.

I believe Romney will be an excellent candidate to take over Trump's new job of firing people on T.V. when Trump eventually goes to hell.

Thanks for the thread, brooklynite.

[bigworld]

12. Huntsman v. Obama

would be a great, substantive debate. Huntsman is conservative, but he's not one of the crazy ones.

[totodeinhere]

17. Oh yes he is. He is trying to appear more reasonable as a campaign tactic.

He is one of the most enthusiastic backers of the Paul Ryan budget plan which would among other things destroy Medicare.

Progressives should not be fooled by his silver tongue. He is just as bad as the rest of them.

[OrwellwasRight]

20. Yes, just as bad. No, not crazy.

There is a difference. One reaches the wrong conclusion because he starts from the wrong values (e.g., evry man for himself). The other reaches the wrong conclusion unhampered by any logic whatsoever.

[Skittles]

23. honestly, these days there's no other kind of repuke but crazy ones

[Thrill]

13. Took these fools this long to start

exposing this phony?

I continue to maintain, the Obama Campaign wants Romney as the nominee. And they like it even better that the Repukes haven't attacked him as much.

[patrice]

14. The old Republican Bait-'n-switch. Wondering how their nutcase base is going to take this.

Also explains why/how the blogosphere elevated and then trashed Ron Paul.

[cstanleytech]

15. As far as I am concerned though not a single one of them has shown themselves to be

the kind of president the nation needs right now.

[patrice]

16. Yep! That's pretty clear, so they'll have to do something like graft Christie onto Huntsman in order

to offset Huntsman's China resume . . . ?

Christie, after all, has not shown himself to be the fool these others are, so he can still take advantage of the tea-baggers' high dudgeon without the taint of their stupidity.

Bunch o' Buchanan buddies would just luv Christie, I bet!

[cstanleytech]

18. They can graft whatever or whoever they want but grafting a piece of shit onto another piece

of shit still means its shit *shrug*

[fujiyama]

19. So he's playing for a distant second

only to go down in flames in SC and likely come in a distant second (most likely third) in FL.

I'm amused that people still keep saying "watch out for Huntsman". Well I'm watching, and he's going nowhere. A sudden Huntsman surge relies on the notion that the average republican voter is sane and rationale. They've already proven time and again over the last eight years that they are neither. And especially since the teabaggers took over, well you get the point.

Huntsman simply has no chance of getting the republican nomination in today's GOP.

[DFW]

21. Huntsman might have a chance, but it's not up to him

It's up to the Kochs, Karl Rove and Roger Ailes.

If the secret dirty money decides that Romney won't cut it, and the crazies have no chance, they'll go for a Huntsman before they let Obama have a cake walk to re-election. Watch for a huge blitz of TV ads and favorable mention of Huntsman on Fox Noise timed with fading praise of Romney. That will be the giveaway. If we see Rasmussen and Gallup show Huntsman "surging" and Chris Wallace fawning all over him, then everyone will know the word has been given. The Republican Party becomes more Stalinist every day, giving off the sentiments of their high-ups by tell-tale signals that everyone can easily interpret, while never coming out and saying what they mean directly.

Huntsman may still have no chance, as someone among the crazies might well not accept (or realize) that they were merely there as entertaining place-holders, and form a serious, if chanceless, third party candidacy. But don't think that the Republicans have written off their chances altogether, even if their main goal, as I see it, is a serious attempt at taking the Senate, thereby effectively neutering a second Obama term. If you think that not enough got done in Obama's first term, just wait to see how little will get done if McTurtle becomes Senate Majority leader. The Democratic Party had better not dare neglect Senate races this November if they want Obama to have a ghost of a chance at accomplishing anything other than cutting ribbons and giving the State of the Union address in his second term.

[LibDemAlways]

24. I agree. A small cadre of kingmakers will decide the nominee by manipulating the

media, the polls, and, to whatever extent is necessary, the ballot box. The primary process provides cover and the illusion of democracy.

[Orsino]

22. Orsino: Huntsman 'only mostly out of touch' n/t

[XanaDUer]

25. He's still a Repub

thus, still a loser.