It would be nice to believe that President Obama is appointing Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. to be the US Ambassador to China because of Huntsman’s unique qualifications for the position. But knowing Barack Obama, it’s more likely all about politics.
In contrast to other Republican governors, he [Huntsman] accepted his state’s allotment from the economic stimulus package – and, in fact, said in a February interview with POLITICO that $787 billion wasn’t large enough.
He was also critical of the Republican leadership in Congress, saying “we will be irrelevant as a party until we become the part of solutions and until we become the party or preeminence.”
Obama’s political gurus were watching Huntsman. Campaign manager David Plouffe described Huntsman this month as “the one person in that party who might be a potential presidential candidate.”
The choice helps Obama burnish his bipartisan credentials as his efforts to work across party lines in Congress continue to run into trouble.
I guess it could be worse, losing a governor who is happy to feed at the stimulus trough isn’t as bad as losing a senator, like Judd Gregg, would have been.
Let me first state that I am a member of the LDS church; my family walked west from Illinois and built the church–literally and by hand–in the Western states. So I’m not bashing based on religion:
But in my experience there are two LDS camps–the fiercely independent camp that is conservative and wants government out of our lives (having no love for a big government that once issued orders to “exterminate” all of our members because it did not like the way we VOTED, never mind our personal beliefs)—and the other camp, that even now continuously tries things like the United Order–living communally, trying to perfect socialism but calling it something else. I suspect Huntsman leans toward the second camp, as eagerly as he lined up for his money. No great loss in weeding him out and understanding he is yet another RINO.
We need Mitt—he’s of that first (my) camp! Our camp also is loathe to apply our personal religious beliefs to governing—we absolutely believe in keeping those two things separate and respecting other belief systems. Which is why I was very comfortable with Mitt and not so much Huckabee–and probably not so much Hunstman, either.
I wish I was living in Oklahoma, myself.
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Thanks for the info, Daneen. I like Mitt Romney, too. The left seems to think that because Romney’s a Mormon he lost the primary. I hope that’s wrong.
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After fielding two clowns and losing, the left had a very slick plan to win the white house.
McCain was opted as he was the least scarey of all the Repub candidates. And IMO, the most beatable.
Libs think people that are religious want to IMPOSE their religion on others.
WRONG. Since religious types tend to be conservative they DO insist the laws we already have to be followed. That, and they tend to have positive social values and scruples in general. Niether of which libs exibit in any significant manner.
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