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I have never quite understood what the appeal of Jon Huntsman was supposed to be. He has the look and feel of front-runner Mitt Romney along with a lot of his moderate and contradictory tendencies only without Romney’s name recognition, polling prowess, financial backing or overall skill. Like Tim Pawlenty he was a less appealing version of the front-runner that brought nothing unique to the table. When faced with that choice, why wouldn’t a voter just go with the guy most likely to win? They didn’t and so Huntsman is dropping out of the race today and will reportedly back Romney.
Beyond being a pale imitation of the front-runner, Huntsman had the unfortunate qualification of working in the Obama administration. Early on the Obama team rightly saw the former Utah Governor as a potential opponent. They nullified him by adding his name to the roster and giving him the ambassadorship to China. Well played, it worked and all Huntsman gained was the ringing endorsement of a man Republican primary voters want to see gone.
More than that, the position they gave him was guaranteed to do nothing to assist a Republican primary. Huntsman liked to speak Chinese during the debates. A very large percentage of our party has open contempt for the Communist dictatorship and despises the fact that lopsided trade deals are sending our jobs overseas while that very large country bites a very large chunk out of our economy. It is nice Huntsman knows some Chinese, it isn’t nice that the nation he was tending to is ripping us off.
During Huntsman’s tenure we have been treated to endless reports of apparent probing of our cyber infrastructure. China appears to be lurking into our most sensitive government, military and corporate data and using it to benefit its own military and economy. That alone should make someone skeptical of a candidate whose biggest point of pride is managing that relationship. Let’s not even get into the human rights abuses and mounting suspicion that the nation along with Russia has been manipulating the world insurgent and military stage against us.
I say so long and good riddance to Huntsman and am bewildered by those who have supported him. Listen, I don’t like Mitt Romney, but if it comes down between him and a lesser clone the choice is obvious. Huntsman never caught on because he never gave anything of substance for voters to grasp. He seems like a nice guy with a record much longer than his stint in the Obama administration, but he spent too little time cluing voters into that experience and to much time sounding like yet another moderate candidate without Mitt’s ability. There was no way he could win.
While the Occupy Movement is a pale comparison to the 60′s counter culture, they are similar in that both represent a small minority of the nation’s views despite the lopsided media coverage they received. At core America has always been conservative and the latest polling from Gallup is further evidence. According to the poll “conservative” remains the largest identified ideology in the nation, comprising 40% of the 20,392 people polled. Moderate came in second with 35% and morally bankrupt liberals, just 21% (yes “morally bankrupt” is my accurate description, not Gallup’s). Most important? While pundits continually cry out that America is becoming more moderate and ideologically centrist, self-identified “moderates” in the poll has been on the decline. Sorry pundits, wrong again.
The percentage of Americans calling themselves “moderate” has gradually diminished in the U.S. since it was 43% in 1992. That is the year Gallup started routinely measuring ideology with the current question. It fell to 39% in 2002 and has been 35% since 2010. At the same time, the country became more politically polarized, with the percentages of Americans calling themselves either “conservative” or “liberal” each increasing.
I have been convinced for some time now that the winning doctrine for 2012 should echo Pat Buchanan’s 1972 phrase that there was a “silent majority” in America of conservatives rejecting counter culture values who were looking for “their” candidate. I believe that is as true today as it was back then. The problem? The Republican Party has stopped reflecting our values and that is why, I believe, Americans are less likely to align themselves with a Party and are instead more likely to align themselves with ideology. This is likely the same on the Democrat side, which is why we are seeing America become more partisan while at the same time the number of “independents” has increased.
If the latest Rasmussen poll holds true, Mitt Romney can expect a New Hampshire style win in Florida. The latest numbers have Romney leading the 2012 Republican Primary candidates with 41% of the vote. His closest rival, Newt Gingrich, is a distant second with 19%. Rick Santorum comes in third with 15% of the vote and Texas Congressman Ron Paul comes in with 9%.
Check out the 2012 Republican GOP Primary polling section for more polls.
CNN and FOX News are now projecting that Mitt Romney has won the New Hampshire primary and will win by a large margin. FOX is also projecting that Ron Paul will come in second and Jon Huntsman third.
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