re: #225 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

If you squint, you begin to see the potential method to his madness. Think about it, you’ve got Bachmann, Perry, Cain, & Paul fighting over the Tea Party vote. Romney’s somewhere in the nebulous middle, not enough of a sell-out to be in serious contention for the TP vote, but too much of one to qualify as a truly “sane” candidate. So Huntsman might be able to pull in enough moderate voters to get far in the primaries. Probably won’t win it all, but he’ll set himself up nicely for a ‘16 run.

I’m having a hard time picturing the Republican party and conservatives calming down after another 4 years of Obama. Worse so the wingnuts and others sundry extremists. I think they will continue on this course and try again in 2016 even if they fail in 2012. Huntsman will still be considered an outsider when that time comes. The atavists will continue to define the Republican party. No change.