At Ralph Reed's Event, Jon Huntsman Dives to the Far Right

At Ralph Reed’s Event, Jon Huntsman Dives to the Far Right

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PoliticsJune 2011 • Views: 25,296

Think Jon Huntsman might be the only potential Republican presidential candidate who isn’t obsessed with trying to destroy women’s rights?

Think again.

Speaking today at the “Faith and Freedom Coalition” event sponsored by the thoroughly discredited and utterly corrupt Ralph Reed, Huntsman trumpeted his anti-women’s rights credentials.

Jon Huntsman aimed straight for the social conservative base in his speech to the Faith and Freedom Conference in Washington on Friday, reminding the hundreds of activists there of his record in Utah opposing abortion and urging Republicans to put life at the forefront.

“I do not believe the Republican Party should focus only on our economic life to the neglect of our human life,” Huntsman said Friday morning. “That is a trade we should not make. If Republicans ignore life, the deficit we will face is one that is much more destructive.”

The party of limited government and personal freedom — unless you happen to be female.

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33 comments

Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:49:49pm

When in Rome, do as the ass-holes do.

wrenchwench Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:49:58pm

I guess he really does want the Republican nomination.

mr.fusion Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:50:31pm

What a shame

I thought this guy was going to try and portray the image of the lone “reasonable Republican” left…..take his hit this cycle and really go after it in ‘16. Unfortunately it looks like he’s going down with the rest of the ship

garhighway Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:51:12pm

“I do not believe the Republican Party should focus only on our economic life to the neglect of our human life,” Huntsman said Friday morning.

“Instead, we should focus on dictating women’s health care choices. Because that’s how we roll in the GOP.”

(I added that last part.)

Kragar Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:51:21pm

Anyone serious about getting the GOP nomination has to make this kind of statement.

Its why I left them.

darthstar Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:54:09pm

Here’s the campaign commercial for Huntsman - slams him on health care, the environment/global warming, Obama, you name it…

Youtube Video

darthstar Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:54:33pm

re: #6 darthstar

Oh, and criticizes him for supporting John McCain! Ha!

Jack Burton Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:54:48pm

Yep…

Time to write in General Zod. Or just vote for Obama.

Alexzander Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:55:37pm

female….. or poor, or first nations, or believe in the wrong religion, or have politically dissenting views.

Cinnabar Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:55:44pm

re: #4 garhighway

(I added that last part.)

You DID?! I’d never have known, it sounds so true to life.

Kragar Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:55:49pm

re: #8 ArchangelMichael

Yep…

Time to write in General Zod. Or just vote for Obama.

Zod for the primaries.

Obdicut Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:56:02pm

Welp.

I said if he didn’t dive to the right and actually ran as a GOP moderate, I’d campaign for him.

Looks like I don’t have to worry about that anymore.

Shame.

Fat Bastard Vegetarian Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:56:57pm

re: #8 ArchangelMichael

Kneel…

wrenchwench Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:58:46pm

From the link:

“This is a time for choosing. This is a moment when we choose whether we are to become a declining power in the world, beaten from within, or a nation that regains its economic health and maintains its long-loved liberties,” Huntsman said. “This is not just a time for choosing new leaders. This is the hour when we choose our future.”

This is a Time For Choosing, silly woman, not a Time For Choice.

3CPO Fri, Jun 3, 2011 1:59:40pm

Sorry… whenever I see “Huntsman,” all I can think about is cheese. Lovely, lovely cheese.

Robert O. Fri, Jun 3, 2011 2:01:23pm

The GOP is as dogmatic, ideological, and lacking in critical thought as the USSR under Stalin or China under Mao.

Where ideologues meet pragmatists, the pragmatists win. Right now, it would appear that the Cold War role has switched: military, economically and politically, the US (under the right-wing) has become the Soviet Union, whereas China has usurped our place as the pragmatic moderate.

3CPO Fri, Jun 3, 2011 2:01:36pm

“I do not believe the Republican Party should focus only on our economic life to the neglect of our human life,”

Except in anything involving cutting greenhouse gasses, the EPA, or climate change.

albusteve Fri, Jun 3, 2011 2:03:54pm

when I see faith and freedom in the same sentence I want to puke, then break something….maybe I’m odd about that stuff

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Jun 3, 2011 2:04:48pm

“I do not believe the Republican Party should focus only on our economic life to the neglect of our human life,”

when have they been focusing on our economic life? They seem ready to shoot it in the head all the while trying to pass legislation against abortion. Fucktard…

Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Jun 3, 2011 2:05:00pm

re: #18 albusteve

when I see faith and freedom in the same sentence I want to puke, then break something…maybe I’m odd about that stuff

right there with ya man.

albusteve Fri, Jun 3, 2011 2:05:43pm

re: #17 3CPO

“I do not believe the Republican Party should focus only on our economic life to the neglect of our human life,”

Except in anything involving cutting greenhouse gasses, the EPA, or climate change.

well they sure took good care of that pregnant girl up in Idaho….yuppers

researchok Fri, Jun 3, 2011 2:08:09pm

re: #14 wrenchwench

From the link:

This is a Time For Choosing, silly woman, not a Time For Choice.

Touche

sattv4u2 Fri, Jun 3, 2011 2:11:50pm

re: #18 albusteve

~~when I see faith and freedom in the same sentence I want to puke, then break something…maybe~~ I’m odd ~~about that stuff~~

All the other words seemed superfluous!!

justaminute Fri, Jun 3, 2011 2:13:06pm

I can barely stand to listen to these wannabe presidents. I’ve been to busy to come here and post because I have a just vacated rental property. I could barely believe it but I cleaned up the house and put the rental sign up and had 52 calls this day alone. Good for me but really bad for our economy. I see lots of homes for sale but few rental signs. I worry.

Lidane Fri, Jun 3, 2011 2:15:10pm

*sigh*

As long as the GOP wants a government small enough to fit in my uterus and/or my bedroom, they can go to hell.

webevintage Fri, Jun 3, 2011 2:16:25pm

re: #25 Lidane

*sigh*

As long as the GOP wants a government small enough to fit in my uterus and/or my bedroom, they can go to hell.

Perfect tweet, I think I’ll steel it….

rwdflynavy Fri, Jun 3, 2011 2:17:54pm

OT
Syria cuts off internet access.

Syria cuts internet

albusteve Fri, Jun 3, 2011 2:19:26pm

re: #27 rwdflynavy

OT
Syria cuts off internet access.

Syria cuts internet

battling for a seat on the UNHR commission

Ming Fri, Jun 3, 2011 3:13:26pm

I wonder if George Will is still excited about Jon Huntsman?

Just as it becomes clearer and clearer that the War on Drugs is a big waste of government time and money, not to mention ruining people’s lives… now the Republicans, who claim to be for “small government”, want a new War on Abortion.

If the economy sputters in the next year and a half, the Republicans have a very real chance at winning the presidency in 2012.

moderatelyradicalliberal Fri, Jun 3, 2011 3:40:34pm

re: #25 Lidane

*sigh*

As long as the GOP wants a government small enough to fit in my uterus and/or my bedroom, they can go to hell.

Awesome. I’ll have to borrow it sometime.

moderatelyradicalliberal Fri, Jun 3, 2011 3:41:49pm

re: #29 Ming

I wonder if George Will is still excited about Jon Huntsman?

Just as it becomes clearer and clearer that the War on Drugs is a big waste of government time and money, not to mention ruining people’s lives… now the Republicans, who claim to be for “small government”, want a new War on Abortion.

If the economy sputters in the next year and a half, the Republicans have a very real chance at winning the presidency in 2012.

They shouldn’t even under those circumstances. They are insane. The individual candidates and the party as a whole. Personally I don’t think the slowing down of the economy and the GOP regaining power in the House and so many states is a coincidence.

SidewaysQuark Fri, Jun 3, 2011 3:49:26pm

re: #31 moderatelyradicalliberal

They shouldn’t even under those circumstances. They are insane. The individual candidates and the party as a whole. Personally I don’t think the slowing down of the economy and the GOP regaining power in the House and so many states is a coincidence.

Not sure I’d go so far as to make that correlation. Lots of other causes are in play.

However, just for fun today, I looked up a ranking of state GDPs per capita on wiki. Of the top 10 (DE, AK, CN, WY, MA, NY, NJ, VA, WA, CO) 6/10 are solid Democrat, while only 2/10 are Republican (with VA and CO falling halfway between, in my estimate). Of the bottom 10 (MS, ID, WV, SC, NM, AL, AR, MT, KY, MI, TN), 8/10 are solid Republican, with only one Democrat state and one halfway between (WV).

Draw whatever correlations you will from this….

CuriousLurker Fri, Jun 3, 2011 5:40:42pm

From the article:

Huntsman leaned heavily on his record as governor to make his case that he should not be dismissed as a social moderate — one of the most common lines of attack issued against his prospective presidential candidacy.

Yeah, ‘cause GOD FORBID someone should take a moderate, well balanced position on anything. Unless they’re non-WASPs, liberals, gays—in which case they need to stop being dangerous radicals and become more moderate…like the GOP. Except the GOP doesn’t like moderates….Wait. What? Is there a map that goes with this?

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