I was just thinking about Huntsman this morning. He's seems far too likable and reasonable to be a real candidate. So I'm certain that he's got an extreme 10 year boy sex addiction in the closet.

If Huntsman spent say, $20 or 30 million getting the absolute best people (both inside and outside of politics) to establish his credentials followed by a blitzkrieg of fundraising would he be the most viable Independent candidate for 2012 with a pretty good shot at, if nothing else, throwing the election into disarray?

Because strictly as an (I) I find him to be roughly 97% more electable than say Michael Bloomberg. (who despite my failed prediction that Obama would not be elected, I feel confident in saying will NEVER be elected. Never.)

Agree w/ all of that Bloor. Huntsman seems like a whole different animal than previous independent/republican candidates. At this point in time, he seems less maverick-y and less wacky. But the election period is young and there's plenty of time for soul-selling, pandering, and outright stupidity.

Alarmingly, he does bear a slight resemblance to Colin Cowherd though.

He's the 2012 model of 100 other failed candidates. I hate to say it, but he is a classic Beltway pundit class creation - seemingly centrist and sane candidate that has no real backing - except a smart few who think he'll be the standard bearer in 2016 (an de facto bet that the dreaded Kenyan-Commie-Socialist-America-hating-Muslim-from-IndoPakistan will be re-elected by a cadre of fellow travelers, welfare cheats, and illegal aliens who are voted in alphabetical order...oh and corpses)

I don't doubt this or disagree with you AT ALL, I was merely posing a hypothetical. You know I love to ruminate on guys like that.

Back in the real world, I've still got Barry narrowly beating Mitt. Anybody else?

Alls I know is between Huntsman, Romney and Perry, the Republican party has never fielded better heads of hair.

They are amazing.

Considering we both form our beliefs via mainstream publications through Beltway insider pundits, with a smidgen of screed based rage that yearns for "normalcy" - he's a natural for people like us.

It also underscores a fundamental and underestimated facet of The Disillusionment of Barry -- to wit: so many people wanted to believe that partisan rancor could be done away with a swipe of the hand ala Obi Wan. And since it turned out that Barry had neither original ideas, nor a spine, nor supporters prepared for a long slog against people who would give no quarter, we had 2010.

But yeah, I think you have to take Barry as the (slight) favorite right now - but I think both sides are less than even money right now. It probably depends on the economy, and however many voters can get disenfranchised in places like FL, OH, WI, WA, PA and whatever other failing states filled with people promised the world and shocked to find that not only does the emperor not have any fucking clothes, but that there's not even a fucking emperor in the first place, are qualified as battlegrounds.

Now I'm worried...

yeah, i was going to say. I appreciate and respect the baron/senator, but he was wrong about every horse race in '08.

Let's get our Electoral College counts and compare numbers. It's not a cake walk by any means.

I am looking forward to the Muslim vs. Mormon matchup myself.

http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/arch ... erm-limits

Warren Buffett suggests term limits if there is a Federal deficit. IMO, term limits are a doubled-edge sword for a multitude of reasons. Theoretically, I support term limits simply to counteract the endless re-election cycle that has poisoned our political process. Realistically, I don't think it would work.

Buffett, July 7, on CNBC:



Me, June 20, on CNN's Global Public Square:

santorums got more of a guy smiley look, imo

yeah, romney's rocking more of a young heston there

so this debt ceiling thing is some real bullshit

sure is - Gergen Op-Ed: http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/07/11/g ... google_cnn


http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011 ... ss&src=igw


sure we do.

Saddam Hussein was responsibile for 9-11.
High taxes and government spending is responsible for the economic crisis.

The Multiverse.
I'm not here, I'm there.
And if I'm there, I'm everywhere.

I guess everything is true somewhere.

So many more years before Obama...its sad

And I'm GOP

I think Barry has f-ed himself here. No one is going to budge and he's going to have to take the short term solution or risk default.

I love that Cantor has become the hard liner now after raising the debt ceiling by TRILLIONS over the years all the while NOT cutting spending.

It'd be funny if it weren't so fucking horrifying.

let the bush tax cuts expire, cut a few programs. wipe hands, move on.