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2011-02-02 China-Japan-Koreas

U.S. Ambassador to China Resigns Amid 2012 Rumors

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Posted by Fred 2011-02-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Jon Meade Huntsman,Jr. - Brief Wiki Bio
states he has proficiency in Mandarin Chinese.

Posted by Goodluck 2011-02-02 03:45|| 2011-02-02 03:45|| Front Page Top

#2 sounds like Obama's picking his 2012 opponent before the Republicans can. Wonder what they found in his vetting file that they'll spring on us right before the election. Huntsman who? is right

Posted by Frank G 2011-02-02 08:40|| 2011-02-02 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 "he gained 70 percent of the vote in November 2008 for a second term as Utah's top official." Then became ambassador to China in 2009. He'll be called a quiter. That and the fact that the Chinese visit was a disaster which somehow has to relate back to the Ambassador even if unfairly. Lastly we already have a Mormon trying to get traction in the Republican party who has a lot more name recognition. Huntsman is aiming for the VP slot and I don't think he'll get it.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-02-02 09:19|| 2011-02-02 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 sounds like Obama's picking his 2012 opponent before the Republicans can.

Classic Axelrod trick. The Pubs (being the Stupid Party) fell for this trick in '08 with McCain -- recall that the NYT endorsed McCain in the primaries.

Axelrod would love to pull the same trick in '12: set up conditions by which the Stupid Party will choose the candidate Axelrod has hand-picked to be Bambi's opponent, preferably some RINO squish with a hidden, fatal weakness that can be trotted out in mid-August.

Why do the Dems hate Palin so much? If she's not very bright, not very important, not very original, and not very serious as a candidate, why the daily two-minute hate? Why do they spend so much time trying to tear her down?

Because Axelrod knows that Saracuda can bring Bambi down, that's why.

I don't know Huntsman other than what I read in the news, but the very fact that he gets good press from the MFM is enough for me to cross him off my list.

Posted by Steve White 2011-02-02 11:14|| 2011-02-02 11:14|| Front Page Top

#5 A couple big media last week breathlessly reported the president's '12 campaign as unofficially starting. An opponant, if even just a boxing dummy, is necessary and helps frame the debate. Doubly so if they do not have a firm decision on the opponent so the boxing dummy is also a lure.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-02-02 12:14|| 2011-02-02 12:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Crist imploded on them, so they're scrambling for another RINO to spoil Palin, Huckabee, and Romney. To be honest, I don't know a heck of a lot about Huntsman, but what I do know, isn't impressive. For one, it's Utah - you'd have to be sodomizing schoolchildren in front of the national press to lose a state-level race as a Republican in that state. For another, he's been sitting out the Tea Party period in China as an ambassador for the other party. That doesn't make you popular with base types. Lastly, he's a Party guy from a state where Party guys are seriously out of favor - his fellow ex-governor Mike Leavett was roundly booed at the convention that picked Mike Lee over the incumbent senatorial clockpuncher.

I'm really kind of surprised the press isn't pushing Huckabee harder - he's their sort of squish, all oversized, dewy-eyed sympathy and economically as liberal as they come in the Republican package. I guess it's the cultural factor: they can deal with Mormons, but enthusiastic bible-thumping Baptists better be black to get past their guard.

Posted by Mitch H. 2011-02-02 13:19|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2011-02-02 13:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Huntsman Fever!!!

Catch it!!!

Posted by charger 2011-02-02 18:02|| 2011-02-02 18:02|| Front Page Top

#8 All I know is that when the MSM talks of a "Moderate" Republican they mean RINO.

No more progressive economic politics please. We're broke.

Posted by DarthVader 2011-02-02 18:53|| 2011-02-02 18:53|| Front Page Top

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