Huntsman calls GOP congressional leadership "inconsequential"

[Mr. Morden]

link:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/24/utah-governor-ignores-top-gop-legislators/

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[Reaganfan]

Boehner is great but I barely see McConnell.

[justfollowingtheelections]

Could Huntsman be any more awesome?

[Josh/Devilman88]

Huntsman '12! He is my kind of Republican!

[Keystone Phil]

My opinion of Boehner has gone up a bit. He's be aggressive. However, we can do better. McConnell has been the leader we expected so we can obviously do better there, too.

[Josh/Devilman88]

Oh, BTW if Huntsman runs and wins the primary this is one Obama voter that would switch sides.

[Lunar]

Wait, the GOP Congressional leadership is consequential?  Said who?

Especially from the point of view of a governor such as Huntsman, I don't know what he and Boehner or McConnell would even say to each other.

[Lief 🗽]

It's nice to have a not-insane Republican in higher office once in a while. If only the entire party was full of them, instead of the fringe.

[Keystone Phil]

If only the entire party was full of them, instead of the fringe.

And once he starts highlighting his conservative stances, he'll become a fascist again, right?

[Lief 🗽]

People like Huntsman and Crist and Schwarzenegger, though much more conservative than should be represented in a civilized country, understand the importance of working across with the aisle, with the party in power and the President in power, so that the lives of their constituents can be approved, while other Republicans are content to yell no and then sulk off into their corners and collect their adulations from Rush Limbaugh and Neil Cavuto.

[Keystone Phil]

People like Huntsman and Crist and Schwarzenegger, though much more conservative than should be represented in a civilized country, understand the importance of working across with the aisle, with the party in power and the President in power, so that the lives of their constituents can be approved, while other Republicans are content to yell no and then sulk off into their corners and collect their adulations from Rush Limbaugh and Neil Cavuto.

LOL

Uh huh. Like...John McCain, right?

[Lief 🗽]

People like Huntsman and Crist and Schwarzenegger, though much more conservative than should be represented in a civilized country, understand the importance of working across with the aisle, with the party in power and the President in power, so that the lives of their constituents can be approved, while other Republicans are content to yell no and then sulk off into their corners and collect their adulations from Rush Limbaugh and Neil Cavuto.

LOL

Uh huh. Like...John McCain, right?

huh?

[Keystone Phil]

People like Huntsman and Crist and Schwarzenegger, though much more conservative than should be represented in a civilized country, understand the importance of working across with the aisle, with the party in power and the President in power, so that the lives of their constituents can be approved, while other Republicans are content to yell no and then sulk off into their corners and collect their adulations from Rush Limbaugh and Neil Cavuto.

LOL

Uh huh. Like...John McCain, right?

huh?

Everything you just described Huntsman to be is what John McCain has been and you guys made him into a right wing monster.

Don't act like you're going to like Huntsman three years from now.

[Lief 🗽]

People like Huntsman and Crist and Schwarzenegger, though much more conservative than should be represented in a civilized country, understand the importance of working across with the aisle, with the party in power and the President in power, so that the lives of their constituents can be approved, while other Republicans are content to yell no and then sulk off into their corners and collect their adulations from Rush Limbaugh and Neil Cavuto.

LOL

Uh huh. Like...John McCain, right?

huh?

Everything you just described Huntsman to be is what John McCain has been and you guys made him into a right wing monster.

Don't act like you're going to like Huntsman three years from now.

Because he turned into a run-of-the-mill right-wing Republican hack? He called progressive taxation socialist, for God's sake, and he's voted pretty much in lockstep with the Republican leadership this session.

[Keystone Phil]

People like Huntsman and Crist and Schwarzenegger, though much more conservative than should be represented in a civilized country, understand the importance of working across with the aisle, with the party in power and the President in power, so that the lives of their constituents can be approved, while other Republicans are content to yell no and then sulk off into their corners and collect their adulations from Rush Limbaugh and Neil Cavuto.

LOL

Uh huh. Like...John McCain, right?

huh?

Everything you just described Huntsman to be is what John McCain has been and you guys made him into a right wing monster.

Don't act like you're going to like Huntsman three years from now.

Because he turned into a run-of-the-mill right-wing Republican hack? He called progressive taxation socialist, for God's sake, and he's voted pretty much in lockstep with the Republican leadership this session.

He turned into? His record was always the same.

McCain worked across the aisle and still does. McCain has always caught the wrath of the radio talk show hosts.

Spare us the talking points, Lief. The campaign is over.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     Huntsman is an FF as usual.

[Raoul]

I like this guy more and more every day.  Real "straight talking" is what we need.  Someone who isn't so wrapped up in himself and the game.

He is wrapped up in himself and the game, so wrapped up in fact that he knows he should make himself look like he's not wrapped up in the game. Smart politics win

[Lief 🗽]

People like Huntsman and Crist and Schwarzenegger, though much more conservative than should be represented in a civilized country, understand the importance of working across with the aisle, with the party in power and the President in power, so that the lives of their constituents can be approved, while other Republicans are content to yell no and then sulk off into their corners and collect their adulations from Rush Limbaugh and Neil Cavuto.

LOL

Uh huh. Like...John McCain, right?

huh?

Everything you just described Huntsman to be is what John McCain has been and you guys made him into a right wing monster.

Don't act like you're going to like Huntsman three years from now.

Because he turned into a run-of-the-mill right-wing Republican hack? He called progressive taxation socialist, for God's sake, and he's voted pretty much in lockstep with the Republican leadership this session.

He turned into? His record was always the same.

McCain worked across the aisle and still does. McCain has always caught the wrath of the radio talk show hosts.

Spare us the talking points, Lief. The campaign is over.

I think it's pretty undeniable that the McCain who ran in 2000 and the McCain who ran in 2008 were very different.

Your 2nd and 3rd points are ironically contradictory.

[The Mikado]

Eh, the McCain of 2000 wasn't a saint either, in my book.  His primary item was the insane Campaign Finance apparatus he since imposed on our political process which drowns out advocacy groups, limits the effectiveness of Political Action Committees, and prevents proper coordination between groups with similar objectives in achieving their advocacy aims.

[Franzl]

Oh, BTW if Huntsman runs and wins the primary this is one Obama voter that would switch sides.

unless you've turned Green by then.

[Josh/Devilman88]

Oh, BTW if Huntsman runs and wins the primary this is one Obama voter that would switch sides.

unless you've turned Green by then.

Greens are scary

[Keystone Phil]

I think it's pretty undeniable that the McCain who ran in 2000 and the McCain who ran in 2008 were very different.

No, it's not. In fact, many of us have been pointing out that they're the same. He just used different rhetoric.

Amazing how months ago you were part of the crew that said he was always "far right" and that we couldn't trust him as a maverick and now, suddenly, he's not the same guy he was eight years ago.

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I've said this stuff for awhile now and I haven't always been a McCain fan.

[afleitch]

I notice Huntsman evoked the changes the Tories went through over here. He knows his 'conservatism.' All the best to him.

[Mr. Morden]

Huntsman goes farther in his critique of the GOP in this interview in the Politico:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19181.html

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He calls the post-Major Tories "a very narrow party of angry people", and likens that to the current GOP.....not exactly the sort of thing typically expected from someone who governs one of the most conservative states in the country.

[Josh/Devilman88]

Huntsman goes farther in his critique of the GOP in this interview in the Politico:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/19181.html

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He calls the post-Major Tories "a very narrow party of angry people", and likens that to the current GOP.....not exactly the sort of thing typically expected from someone who governs one of the most conservative states in the country.

He just gets better and better each day.