Huntsman Slams Perry On Global Warming And Secession

[jaxx]

Huntsman Slams Perry On Global Warming And Secession, Suggests Perry Is ‘Unelectable’

In an interview this morning with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman repeatedly ripped his fellow GOP presidential candidate Texas Gov. Rick Perry for Perry’s “extreme” views on global warming, monetary policy and secession:

<..> HUNTSMAN: I think there’s a serious problem. The minute that the Republican Party becomes the party – the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. We lose a whole lot of people who would otherwise allow us to win the election in 2012. . . .

TAPPER: A former Bush political guru, Karl Rove, called [Perry's claim that monetary stimulus amounts to treason] “un-presidential.” What do you think?

HUNTSMAN: Well, I don’t know if that’s pre-secession Texas or post-secession Texas. But in any event, I’m not sure that the average voter out there is going to hear that treasonous remark and say that sounds like a presidential candidate, that sounds like someone who is serious on the issues. . . . I think when you find yourself at an extreme end of the Republican Party you make yourself unelectable.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/0...-vs-perry/

Good article for going after Perry.

[Cha]

Glad we have someone bringing this up in the republicon lying-fest of a primary.

[Andy823]

(08-22-2011 02:08 PM)Cha Wrote:  Glad we have someone bringing this up in the republicon lying-fest of a primary.

Sounds to me like he knows he doesn't stand a chance, so why not go for it! He is either positioning himself for 2016 as the only "sane" candidate from the bunch that ran in 2012, or he is helping Romney by doing what Mitt doesn't seem to want to do go after the crazies!

Either way the next debate is going to be a whole lot of fun to watch!

[RoyGBiv]

(08-23-2011 09:51 AM)Andy823 Wrote:  

(08-22-2011 02:08 PM)Cha Wrote:  Glad we have someone bringing this up in the republicon lying-fest of a primary.

Sounds to me like he knows he doesn't stand a chance, so why not go for it! He is either positioning himself for 2016 as the only "sane" candidate from the bunch that ran in 2012, or he is helping Romney by doing what Mitt doesn't seem to want to do go after the crazies!

I think the current Republican establishment position is that this teabagger business will be burnt out one way or another (either they win and mess up everything so much that everyone hates them or they lose and mess up everything so much that everyone hates them) and that 2016 will be a "return to normalcy" moment. So, yeah, positioning for 2016 is probably the main strategy among sane candidates.

And it pains me to mention that Jeb could well be one of those "sane" candidates.

[NJMaverick]

Huntsman is of course 100% correct