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Jimmy Carter: You know who looks like a good candidate? Jon Huntsman
Although the one-term president said President Obama will be his choice in the next election, he said Huntsman, who formed a federal political action committee on Tuesday, is “very attractive to me personally.” But he added that his “intention is to vote for the Democratic candidate.”
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Huntsman reported to have said, “OH NOES!!!!!!”
fossten on May 4, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Excellent, the old lukewarm endorsement/kiss of death move. Well played, President Kotter.
cynccook on May 4, 2011 at 12:04 PM
They must fear Jon Huntsman.
Huntsman/Romney ’12!
portlandon on May 4, 2011 at 12:05 PM
PEANUTS! Get your death defying, politically suicidal PEANUTS!!!
upinak on May 4, 2011 at 12:07 PM
Way to trip that horse right of the gates, JIMMAH!
darclon on May 4, 2011 at 12:07 PM
For what country?
Cindy Munford on May 4, 2011 at 12:08 PM
Kiss Of Death.
Socratease on May 4, 2011 at 12:09 PM
Now, this reminds me of the Godfather movie.
Vashta.Nerada on May 4, 2011 at 12:09 PM
It’s a win win with either candidate
faraway on May 4, 2011 at 12:10 PM
Carter endorses Huntsman for -10,000 damage.
Daemonocracy on May 4, 2011 at 12:11 PM
Everything is relative, and Carter is relatively stupid, so this makes sense.
SKYFOX on May 4, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Kiss of death.
I wonder if this is the journolist position. Really smart if it is. Nothing gets the far right’s blood up more than Carter.
Carter isn’t smart enough to do this to discredit him on his own. But when the whitehouse is practically endorsing him, and now Carter, I think it is possible that they think this is how to best discredit him.
No matter. I’ll decide what I think after I’ve actually heard something from Huntsman himself…
RCP is certainly putting up positive articles.
The guy has no chance! Zero name recognition. So I guess they aren’t risking much by pushing him and it makes them look unbias?
I am open to RINOs. I am open to winning.
petunia on May 4, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Yup…
nyx on May 4, 2011 at 12:15 PM
You know who else is very attractive to Jimmy Carter personally? Kim Jong-Il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, all of Hamas, and basically everyone who hates America. Not that I think Huntsman does, necessarily.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on May 4, 2011 at 12:15 PM
I love that CNN referred to Carter as “The one term president”
Kataklysmic on May 4, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Ouch.
Stick a fork in him.
stenwin77 on May 4, 2011 at 12:15 PM
Carter endorses Huntsman? I didn’t know Huntsman was one of those “crazed, murderous jihadis” or “insane dictators” that Carter always supports.
Did Huntsman say something anti-semitic lately? Maybe that’s why.
Timothy S. Carlson on May 4, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Jimmah’s got lust in his heart.
steebo77 on May 4, 2011 at 12:17 PM
Why in the world would Jimmy Carter think Republicans would take his advice? I think he might be more delusional than we thought (is that possible?), time to pull the passport.
Cindy Munford on May 4, 2011 at 12:18 PM
RINOs run the House right now. What exactly have we won so far?
fossten on May 4, 2011 at 12:19 PM
“I forget to wear pants again.”
-Jimmy
Bishop on May 4, 2011 at 12:21 PM
Huntsman is shaking his fist at the sky and yelling:
“CURSE YOU JIMMY CARTAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”
thebrokenrattle on May 4, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Wait, you actually think Huntsman is some kind of threat to Obama?
RINOS don’t win because liberals do liberalism better.
Daemonocracy on May 4, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Carter likes him? Does this mean he suspects Huntsman shares his love of Hamas?
myrenovations on May 4, 2011 at 12:22 PM
Oh, oh! Another one with O’Bambi’s predilections!
Sincerely,
Larry Sinclair
honsy on May 4, 2011 at 12:23 PM
I’m starting to wonder whether Huntsman is being supported by Democrats to run fairly deep into the GOP primary so that Dems and the media can laud Huntsman and, ultimately, cast the eventual GOP nominee as an absolute crazy.
BuckeyeSam on May 4, 2011 at 12:28 PM
TMI Jimmy, TMI. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
rbj on May 4, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Haha. I forgot abourt Larry Sinclair. After last Saturday night I half expect him to be cast on the next Celebrity Apprentice though.
Kataklysmic on May 4, 2011 at 12:30 PM
The only purpose to continue the two party charade is so the progressives will split their votes between D and R while a small-government conservative party sweeps in for an easy victory.
FloatingRock on May 4, 2011 at 12:30 PM
That’s all the homework I need to do on Huntsman. Next?
Big John on May 4, 2011 at 12:33 PM
If you feed the RINO’s they’ll keep coming back. The nicer you are to them the more that will keep coming around. Pretty soon your own will go starving because all you’ll be doing is feeding the RINO’s.
FloatingRock on May 4, 2011 at 12:33 PM
Coming from a man who just got back from visiting his buddy Kim Jong Il. *sigh*
Carter always portrayed himself a religous man. Just what religion? Satanism?
capejasmine on May 4, 2011 at 12:33 PM
After the Primary, the election as always will be won in the middle.
You pretend otherwise, but I know you know that.
Pretending that we can win this by being inflexible is just silly.
Huntsman has no chance at the nomination. So he threatens noone.
Everyone looks liberal to you. The only ones that don’t are the ones who have never made a choices and decsions for more than two years in a row. They haven’t had time to offend you yet.
Every single politician who is running has exactly the same stand on every issue… any difference is semantic.
So get off your high horse, if you think any of them is more conservative than another you are just wrong. Some of them are simply untried by real life.
Like you. They all claim the precious Conservative mantel and they all have claim to it.
You just want a newbie to win so you can turn on them as soon as they face real world decisions and break your orthodoxy.
I am just not going to play that game anymore.
petunia on May 4, 2011 at 12:36 PM
He has NO base. Not the right, not the left, and you can’t win with just the middle which is never a block vote.
Huntsman has no chance.
Daemonocracy on May 4, 2011 at 12:38 PM
As for the rest of your post Petunia, only a fool claims to know for certain what another is thinking.
Daemonocracy on May 4, 2011 at 12:42 PM
That’s true, but progressives are not the middle, they’re the extremes of the L and R. The bigger and more powerful the government you desire the more extreme you are on the scale. The center is comprised of the people who support balanced budgets and just want to be be kept safe and allowed to live their lives without undue burdens and infringement on our liberty.
It’s the people who want to manage everything that are the extremists. Just look at historical examples of the “extreme” left and right and you’ll see that they supported powerful authoritarian central government.
McCain and other progressives are not the “middle”, that is just another lie told by the MSM.
FloatingRock on May 4, 2011 at 12:42 PM
Signed,
John S. McCain, First Runner-up, 2008 United States Presidential Election
fossten on May 4, 2011 at 12:45 PM
Reminds me of “A Bronx Tale” when everyone’s cheering their horse at the races, but when they realize that Eddie Mush is also cheering on their horse everyone tears up their tickets knowing it’s doomed to lose.
DrAllecon on May 4, 2011 at 12:53 PM
Campaign killer, or kiss of death. Either way, Carter just toasted Huntsman. As if he wasn’t toast already.
BobMbx on May 4, 2011 at 12:59 PM
I wonder why the Democrats fear Huntsman enough to kill his candidacy like this? If Huntsman is unable to attract any Republican votes, how can they use his “moderation” to show how extreme the GOP has become. Perhaps, I’m reading too much into this. Never attribute to malice what can be explain by stupidity, especially for stupidity prone groups like Democrats.
thuja on May 4, 2011 at 1:03 PM
Note to all future or present Republican candidates for anything: when you have garnered Jimmy Carter’s seal of approval, it’s time to step back and re-evaluate your life.
cynccook on May 4, 2011 at 1:04 PM
Got it. You’d rather pull for a sure winnah that will get us to the same place where Obambi is going, albeit sooner or later than teh Zero’s pace, than pull for an ‘unelectable’ conservative that should s/he win will not just put the brakes but throw the car in reverse from the precipice? IOW, your convictions only extend to the R/D brand and nothing else. Whatevs.
AH_C on May 4, 2011 at 1:06 PM
FIXED
mizflame98 on May 4, 2011 at 1:13 PM
They don’t fear him, they want to split the GOP elction, thus breaking the Indies towards Obambi. If Jon became the nominee, Obambi can slay him in the debates by point out where they are more alike than opposites. Better to go with the incumbent than the new guy that’s fundamentally just like me, except he’s white. Ditto for Mitts and his RomneyCare=ObamaCare.
For those who they fear, they’d demagouge. To whit, Cain/West/Rubio — their meme would be he left the plantation. With SP/MB – the meme is ditzy & unserious.
AH_C on May 4, 2011 at 1:14 PM
Second look (AKA double take) at Jimmah’s …. Orientation…
44Magnum on May 4, 2011 at 1:14 PM
Thank you Jimmy for ensuring that this RINO’s candidacy will be still-born…
phreshone on May 4, 2011 at 1:19 PM
Mind numbingly stupid.
Let us look at recent elections.
Obama won with a decent margin by being the most radical leftist to ever set foot in the White House.
Bush 43 squeaked by twice by playing to the mushy middle, those sainted precious “moderates”.
Clinton who PRETENDED to be centrist, never even got 50% of the vote in either election.
Bush 41 won because he was Ronald Reagan’s VP. Period.
Ronald Reagan was an unabashed, unapologetic CONSERVATIVE.
In 1980 he won an electoral landslide 44 to 6.
By governing as an unabashed, unapologetic CONSERVATIVE, Reagan was a mere 0.18 percent away from carrying all 50 states! Mondale won his home state, and had just 0.18% more voters there chose Reagan ….
Sarah Palin will run as an unabashed, unapologetic CONSERVATIVE. Sarah Palin will win big.
She’s the ONLY candidate with a clear and concise foreign policy, and the ONLY candidate with a clear and concise domestic policy.
She’s the ONLY candidate with an energy policy, PERIOD.
Go peddle crazy somewhere else petunia, you don’t got a clue.
gary4205 on May 4, 2011 at 1:41 PM
Every time JC pops up I miss Billy even more.
BHO Jonestown on May 4, 2011 at 2:16 PM