Huntsman to drop out of U.S. presidential race
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JeremiahW
But he is totally fluent in Chinese.
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Weasel
Surprised to read that Romney's twin quit; then again, he really wasn't in the race to being with.
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Gurukun
He must of realised that at some point in life he:
smoked weed
had sex with another male
had sex with another female
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Triumvere
Fixed that for you.
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hoserfella
He's a Republican thats intelligent, well-spoken and principaled.
He never stood a chance...
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Elbuda Mexicano
He says he is fluent in 2 Chinese dialects, so I guess he can say NIHAO to big $$$??
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SushiSake3
Huntsman....the only sane candidate in the race.
Now all we are left with is a bunch of clowns.
Conservatives should feel right at home.... :-)
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JeremiahW
He is going to endorse Romney.
So I guess if you think Huntsman is the only sane, intelligent, well-spoken, principled guy in the race Mitt Romney is who you want now.
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SushiSake3
Jeremiah: "So I guess if you think Huntsman is the only sane, intelligent, well-spoken, principled guy in the race Mitt Romney is who you want now."
??? That logic is weird. It's like saying if you support Hitler you'll want to support Pol Pot.
But I know you were only joking.
Seriously though, it seems clear now that American conservatives are hellbent on humiliating themselves in front of a laughing world.
Mittens: Has done an about-face on every single social issue in the book.
Newt: Where do you even begin to discuss this guy's flipflops, hypocrisy, wife-hating, black-denigrating, Palestinian-denying 'tude?
Perry: Makes GWB look intelligent - and that's impossible.
Santorum: The social candidate. But how will banning abortion and sodomy create jobs? Rick has still to address this.
As I think I said last week, conservatives wear ignorance and stupidity as a badge of pride.
Rome's burning and they can't even smell the smoke.
Footnote: As I am not even an American, I acknowledge I have NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER to post comments related to U.S. politics on this Japan-based website, amen!
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Familienprobleme
Too bad he will be endorsing Mr. "so scared the U.S. military ain't big enough" Romney. He will bleed us dry trying to maintain the much too large U.S. military in order to calm his chicken heart. Lord only knows what sort of Patriot Act type anti-freedom measure he will be pushing in the name of unnecessary added security too.
I think the only remotely sane one left is Ron Paul, its just that it takes time and a brain to understand him. Most people don't understand him and so they are scared, as scared as Mitt. Paul will at least try to downsize the military to one we can afford, a military of sufficient and sane size. But America has too many lily-livered panicky paranoids for that I am afraid.
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unreconstructed
Huntsman endorsing Romney.I think sushi's head will explode.
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pointofview
Go Ron!
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Ben_Jackinoff
Yes, please go.
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cactusJack
Mitt is worth over US$200 million. Everyone likes to back a winner.
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It"S ME
Mitt does have a decent base.
But will the protestant and catholic majority vote a mormon into power? Recall they don't consider them christians. Religion does matter a lot in US elections.
Not like other places like Japan, Europe, etc where it means little and often is not even mentioned nor considered.
Trivia: Who was the last Japanese Prime-Minister that was a Devout Catholic? Not all that long ago. ;)
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yabits
Oh, but does it ever help.
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Herve Nmn L'Eisa
Romney lite is out. He put all his eggs in one basket, NH, and had no following. The only real candidate is the one the media and Establishment fear. You know his name.
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unreconstructed
Now that the Mormon Huntsman is out you can be sure his co-religionist Romney's faith is suddenly going to be the Big Issue that the OnePercentMedia feels needs more thorough slandering ,er, investigating. Harry Reid's Mormonism? Well, it's not really the same...
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unreconstructed
Translation: All of us, Obama included, are lucky Mitch Daniels never threw his hat in. But the country may well be much much worse off for it.
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nandakandamanda
Uh oh, here we go... Romney may be rich, but it is said he dragged that wealth from the hands of everyone else he was involved with. A corporate-wrecking lemon squeezer? Some recent newspaper articles have paint him as quite an unsavory vulture-like character.
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Madverts
Being a bitter and vindictive back-stabber is seemingly the key to success for the GOP nomination. Huntsman actually did seem a decent bloke so no wonder he's throwing in the towel.
Romney would have been better giving all the money he's spunked over the years to charity instead of a final loss to Mr Obama.
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Serrano
Come on, Madverts, you don't really want Romney to just forfeit the election, do you? Why, there wouldn't be any entertaining debates in which Obama will rip Romney!
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zurcronium
Huntsman knows evolution is real and that climate change is real. In other words he is thinking human. In other words he is not quailfied to run in the republican race as he is not living in the 1800s. And is he is not spineless liar like Romney. In other words no chance. He polled worse that colbert in SC the other day. A fake candidate beat him. Actually all the other fake candidates beat him, only Colbert is honestly fake.
Mittens will self-destruct before its all over. This is looking like Johnson-Goldwater or Nixon-McGovern. For you foxbots google the names Obama will have his second landslide victory. .
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Serrano
"Mittens will self-destruct"
Heck, maybe Obama will self-destruct! Why, he's already done called the government we have not the government we need!
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pointofview
Ah Ben,
Another in denial. Keep up the spending and the US will be broke and then real problems will be the reality.
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BurakuminDes
He definitely has the best name for a candidate : "Huntsman for President" has a strong ring to it. Where I come from, a Huntsman is a bloody big spider! As an aside, looks like them mormon mob have gone on a push to grab control of the free world, no?
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plasticmonkey
Another word for Huntsman is Nimrod, but that title should go to someone else (take your pick). Huntsman lent some gentility to an otherwise shameful GOP primary race. If this freak show does not eventually become a great embarrassment to the Republican Party, it should ring an ominous bell for the future of American politics.
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Triumvere
Romney's not a clown - he just plays one on TV.
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Wolfpack
That's exactly the attitude that caused conservatives to distrust him. Republicans believe in science and they believe in evolution (despite what 'some' evangelicals in the party would have everyone believe). They just don't believe that global warming is based on sound science - because it isn't - and they don't exclude the need for a spiritual life. Science does not and cannot explain everything - and doesn't even pretend to (despite what 'some' hard left Democrats would have everyone believe).
This article focuses on Huntsman's perceived closeness to Obama as the reason for his lack of support among Republicans. That is true but just part of the story.
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Bgood41
He should not be there in the first place. I guess it is all about another line as a presidential candidate on his resume.
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kchoze
Oh please. Global warming is the consensus because there is a mountain of evidence that indicates that the theory is correct and barely anything at all that indicates otherwise. If there was a strange device under your car, that you called a bomb squad and they, after analyzing it, said that they were 90% sure it was a bomb, would you then suppose that it is NOT a bomb, get in your car and drive away? Because that is exactly the attitude climate skeptics adopt. As long as the probability of the theory being correct isn't 100%, they claim that they can safely ignore the possibility that it is correct, even if the consequences of it may be dramatic.
It is insane. Huntsman pointed it out and right-wing Republicans snapped at him.
It is quite terrifying for the world to see that Republican politicians are either people who deny scientific evidence when they don't like the conclusions and who hold extremist positions (Perry, Bachmann) or people with little principle who pretend to be just as insane as the other guys so that they can hope to win (Romney). Worst of all, one of them might be a future president.
George W. Bush was bad enough, but compared to this crowd, he's a moderate.
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Patrick Hattman
Huntsman was never a factor in the race. I'm glad he won't be around to occupy any more TV news time.
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Patrick Hattman
What's terrifying is the prospect of four more years of Barack Obama.
So when it's all said and done, the people will vote in a majority for Mitt Romney, and the electoral college will give him the number he needs.
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Patrick Hattman
@kchoze:
Incidentally, why do people like you continue to obsess about sayings and doings of the other candidates? They mean nothing. This nomination process, the debates, the advertising etc. is just big business. Almost everyone other than Romney will disappear in short order-I guess Paul will hang around since he's retiring a year from now anyway-and we'll get on with the work of seeing Obama and Romney duke it out. Worry about what's important this year.
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kchoze
The only thing I can say is that we can thank whatever God we believe in (or just feel very lucky for those who don't) that he was there instead of the Republicans.
Though he is a milquetoast centrist by any yardstick except the crooked one the ultra-right-wing American conservatives use, he did what was needed to prevent a new Great Depression, which would have inevitably been the result had the Republicans been in charge in 2009 and applied the policies they claim to support. Because that's exactly what happened the last time a government tried to cut spending and raise taxes in response to a financial crisis, the Great Depression (that was the Hoover government that, despite the Krach and exploding unemployment, had surpluses in 1930 and 1931).
The truth is that right-wing policies since the 80s in the US and the rest of the world have created an enormous danger to the world economy. Though in the short-term, it may have led to profits, it has created a deeply unequal world where consumers don't have enough money to consume the new production the economy churns out because wages haven't kept up with economic growth, leading to private debt and financial collapse. It's not a coincidence that the last time societies were so unequal was in 1929.
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JeremiahW
Paul's biggest donors are in the armed forces. Please tell your Canadian friends.
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