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Thomas Lane writes: "The former Utah governor and Obama-appointed ambassador to China has appeared to take glee in poking the Republican base in recent days. Try to convince the base that his appointment by President Obama isn't a fatal handicap? Nah, just mock the base instead."

Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman speaks to President Obama while serving as Abassador to China. (photo: Charles Dharapak/AP)

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+20 # Regina 2011-08-20 22:27

Imagine, a Republican with an IQ above 10, aware of science, capable of logic. We'll have to smother him with sympathy when his "base" -- very base! -- throws him under their bus.

+14 # stannadel 2011-08-21 00:52

Huntsman is positioning himself for 2016 when the Republicans will be looking to recover from the disaster caused by their Tea Party swing in 2012.

+21 # Ralph Averill 2011-08-21 02:35

Good for Huntsman. The Republicans now have a clear choice between sanity and lunacy. The amount of support Huntsman garners will be an indication of how many, if any, Republicans with a brain there are left.

+6 # David Simpson 2011-08-21 05:02

Now here's a Republican maybe desperate Dems. could vote for.

+1 # Regina 2011-08-21 19:57

No, thanks. The big-R machine would still be a national atrocity.

+1 # Ernest Urvater 2011-08-21 06:38

Huntsman is doing in the Republican party exactly what Obama is doing in the Democratic party. But there is a huge difference. Obama is expected to get the nomination even if he is pissing off his liberal base, whereas Huntsman won't get to first base dissing the Repub base. Huntsman has guts doing this, something sorely lacking in our president.

+2 # jon 2011-08-21 06:39

Wow! This guy sounds like he is honest, and does not process all answers to all questions through the approved republican rhetoric software package which all of his contemporaries have had downloaded into ther craniums.

Plus, anybody who appreciates Captain Beefheart is clearly capable of thinking for himself.

In my humble opinion, Beefheart's "Golden Birdies" on his Album "Clear Spot", may very well be the most intriguing thing ever to come out of a sound studio.

+4 # nealjking 2011-08-21 06:47

At least the man is sane. I'll support him for the primary.

+7 # TGMisanthrope 2011-08-21 07:26

Maybe Jon Huntsman is crazy like a fox. An intelligent, informed Republican willing to ignore the extreme wing of their party may not be capable of earning the Republican nomination, but they're absolutely electable come Tuesday, 6 November 2012.

+4 # jwb110 2011-08-21 09:11

It's the swing voters who usually elect a candidate in the general election. The GOP/TP has gotten so far out in space that a moderate Republican has to adress the swing voters in order to have an intelligent conversation. I hope this is a presage of the country regaining its common sense.

+1 # Doug600 2011-08-21 09:20

What a great idea! President Obama could just appoint the worst of the Republiscum potential Presidential candidates and assholes as Ambassadors to countries we don't care about and can't hurt us! Sarah Palin would be great as Ambassador to Leichtensteim, Perry and Paul Bachmann to Sierra Leone or Somalia or someplace where they could get themselves shot or kidnapped and no one would miss them.

+2 # humanmancalvin 2011-08-21 10:24

Sanity issued from a Republican? Is this Bizarro world?

+9 # melody johnson 2011-08-21 10:35

I'm nottaMormon-- nottaRepublican -- have lived in Utah-- and have seen what a difference Mr. Huntsman and family have made! He's the real deal; a man of substance, solid family values and a man of his word. I'm just sayin'...

0 # amye 2011-08-21 14:28

Come on people! Huntsmans family company is a CHEMICAL CO.!! Yikes...chemicals kill! Thats why he believes in SCIENCE and FACTS! Its made them multimillionair es if not billionaires! They even had a chemical co. subsidiary in Iran before he decided to run for the Repugnant nomination! Only then did they close it down there! The US never really enforces any true economic sanctions except in Cuba! We let any Corporate America run its operations anywhere in the world at anytime! Thats why we have the military to defend those corporate operations! Iran doesn't have a nuclear warhead program! Its the same lies as it was for Iraq! Don't be fooled again!

+2 # jon 2011-08-21 15:24

"Don't be fooled again!"

Amerikans will fight to the death defending their right, and preference, to be fooled.

(well maybe the death part is a slight exageration....)

+3 # Midwestgeezer 2011-08-22 05:24

What? A candidate for the Republican nomination with a mind of his own who is not sucking up to the 20% of the 20% of the country who disbelieves evolution and the causes of global change? He's toast! How refreshing!

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