The Glade 4.0

No commentary from me; just curious what the Glade take is on Huntsman.

No idea what you're talking about.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Nothing specific; I just mean general opinions of him as a candidate for President. All the political buzz tends to be about Perry, Romney, Bachman and Paul, while Huntsman typically gets mentioned (if at all) only as an afterthought because of his low poll numbers.

RINO

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

I didn't even know there was a candidate by that name. To be perfectly honest I'm paying no attention whatsoever at this point; maybe in a few months. I probably should look at him though, since Bachman, Romney, and Paul are not options as far as I'm concerned and that doesn't leave me a whole lot more choices.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

The media loves to think that Huntsman is some kind of protest candidate, but he's really just a purely establishment "centrist" candidate. The reason the media takes him more seriously than, say, Paul is that he lets them feel like they're participating in a protest of the status quo without actually challenging their orthodoxy.

A pretty good critique:

Why the Press Loves Jon Huntsman but Ignores Ron Paul.

Personally, I have about as much regard for Huntsman's platform as I do for any of the "viable" candidates' on the field.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Hes milquetoast.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

GOOMH. Also, thanks for the read.

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

I like what he has to say, but he's saying what he thinks I want to hear. Therefore he's not the principaled conservative that the Republicans need to nominate.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

2 cans of bug spray, forming a small white foamy mess around it. Then if there's even a hint of movement... Smack it with a big paper back!

I don't know enough about Huntsman to say he's a bad guy. By all accounts he's the furthest left (comparitively) candidate. Take from that what you will but consider the following.

Four years ago we the Republicans went with the furthest left, most bipartisan, open, business as usual, what have you candidate we could find. He was trounced, soundly, and I know several people only voted for him because of his running mate balancing out the ticket. I would contest that the debate in the country has moved further right since then. I don't understand why we would want to make the same mistake twice. While I believe the anyone but Obama crowd may be significant enough for Huntsman to win, vs. Obama he will only hurt the cause of conservatism further down the road, possibly leading to another 2006 in 2014.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

It's a SNL skit right? The Huntsman!

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

This is the most awesome mis-thread I've seen all month.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades