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  • http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com pdigaudio

    ‘Nuff said.

  • earlgrey

    Huntsman sounds like Barack Obama. I didn’t like Arnold before, but I can’t take him seriously anymore. Kind of like Spitzer. I can’t see Spitzer’s face without feeling disgusted.

  • jeffex11

    This is what a Republican progressive looks like. Global warming is the greatest hoax put on the American people in history and this fool lead off with Cap and trade….sheesh!

  • http://todaysasbestos.wordpress.com scotteiland

    If that.

    Republicans won’t tolerate Barack Lite. We tried that in ’08. No thanks.

  • unclefred

    I haven’t laughed quite so hard as I did when “Obviously” popped up, in a long time.
    If there was ever any question as to why the media is trying to help us pick huntsman, this video provides the answers.

  • http://redmeatconservative.blogspot.com/ Daniel Horowitz

    really have to wonder what he is thinking running in a primary that is dominated by the tea party. I’m really wondering if Obama will dump Biden for Huntsman.

  • chbroussard
  • chbroussard
  • calamityjune

    It’s an attack on Huntsman and Romney. It’s somebody’s clever way of attacking some of our Republican candidates for their positions on certain issues. Yet here we are in the beginning of a campaign for the primary where one of these candidates will be successful. One meaning not necessarily one of these two but one of the larger field.

    And so the message is, choose the right, non-rino position on issues in somebody’s opinion or we’ll open the door to attacks against your candidate. Now isn’t that the door we all decided to slam closed yesterday right here on Redstate?

    I can attack the ideas of universal healthcare and climate change, etc. and I don’t need to attack Romney or Huntsman to do it. I can attack some of the extremist views of the tp, as evidenced in NY26 as being non-winners without attacking – - – - – – - – - – . I wouldn’t dare and I don’t want to. I took Erick seriously yesterday.

  • calamityjune

    when I saw Romney’s name pop up on the screen and I thought about how we weren’t going to attack other’s candidates as agreed upon yesterday.

  • http://www.laborunionreport.com LaborUnionReport

    ;)

  • azaeroprof

    Yeah, no thanks. I’d rather keep Obama. Progressive Republicans scare me more than Progressive Democrats!

  • Aaron Gardner
  • calamityjune

    I thought the idea was to stop attacking legitimate Republican candidates. And as Mitt Romney is a legitimate candidate and he’s most likely the frontrunner at the moment, it just seemed to me that to attack him and group him with (- – - – - – - – -) who is being attacked for being a rino, would not be tolerated anymore. So I guess I got that all wrong?

    You see, if this is going to be a Republican site then it’s not exclusively a tea party site and so we don’t attack tea party candidates and we don’t attack Republican candidates. Do I have that wrong? Am I a Republican who’s lost her way and ended up on an exclusively tea party site?

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    The point of yesterday’s post was focused on the zealots and zealotry of people wedded to particular candidates lashing out at others for daring not to like the same candidate.

    I’m not lashing out at anybody.

    I’m running a funny video clip that . . . wait for it . . . . wait for it . . . . uses the candidate’s own words.

  • Aaron Gardner
  • calamityjune

    and manages to attack Mitt Romney by grouping him with another legitimate candidate who you don’t approve of. Well that’s fine, I don’t approve of candidate H but I do approve of candidate Romney and I don’t approve of an attack against him, no matter how it’s cleverly disguised. You don’t either right?

    But let’s let it go this time in the spirit of not being divisive. Let’s hope it doesn’t open a door to another video that makes an attack on candidate C. Or candidate P.

    Nuff said!

  • streiff

    that’s not what it says.

  • calamityjune

    Mitt Romney has adequately explained the difference between Obama care and what he did for his state. One is on a state level and the other is an attempt to dictate to the American people that they will be forced to take part in Obamacare.

    Support Mitt Romney for president. A sensible and moderate candidate who appeals to conservatism as well as appealing to the undecided who we desperately need to beat Obama.

    Thanks so much for letting me make my point here!

  • calamityjune

    Don’t be a zealot.

  • calamityjune

    We are either going to leave out the attacks on some candidates or we are not!

  • rightwingmom52

    Liberals and conservatives most certainly do not want the same thing. Plus, “embrace non-traditional values.” No, thanks.

  • sundaycombo

    Huntsman could get the last laugh in. It’s just as plausible to draw up a scenario where he wins the GOP nomination as it is to draw up one where Bachmann wins it.

    And speaking of cap and trade/global warming, noted flip flopper Tim Pawlenty’s minister, great friend, spiritual adviser, and officiator at his wedding (Rev. Leith Anderson) is a major evangelical leader who strongly believes in global warming and sponsoring actions to halt it. Sooner or later Pawlenty-if he is REALLY serious about being President- is going to have to pull an Obama/Rev Wright move and throw him under the bus.

  • izoneguy

    Rick Perry?s Tenth Commandment

    http://www.conservativesforamerica.com/national-review/rick-perry?s-tenth-commandment

    The kicker is that Perry recently ran into former Boeing CEO Phil Condit at the airport, and learned that the retired executive is living in . . . the suburbs of Dallas, of course, which offer a whole lot less urban vibrancy than downtown Chicago but do offer such contemporary amenities as jobs, good schools, and a real-estate market that isn?t the stuff of nightmares ? along with a state income-tax rate of 0.0 percent, all of which add up to a standard of living that?s attractive both to rich guys like Condit and regular schmoes, who are moving to Texas by the millions. Think of it this way: Barack Obama beat John McCain by less than 10 million votes across the whole country; nearly half that many people have moved to Texas during Rick Perry?s governorship. In the vote-with-your-feet primary, he?s the runaway favorite, a fact that will be of no small consequence if he should decide that the place to fight Washington isn?t Austin, but Washington.

  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    The video above is about Jon Huntsman.

    It is not about Mitt Romney.

    Your hyperdefensiveness about Mitt Romney means you clearly did not get the point of yesterday’s post and are prime example of what I was talking about.

    It is a well known fact in politics that Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman are major political rivals and Jon Huntsman has been more than a bit candid that he hates Romney and would like to defeat Romney in the Presidential election cycle.

    Consequently, the meaning of the “not endorsed by Mitt Romney” bit is not to connect Mitt Romney to Jon Huntsman’s liberalism, but as a humorous bit that Mitt Romney did not pay for a video that should he see it he’d be wishing that he produced.

    Do you get it now?

  • calamityjune

    now we’re really back on a roll. Here’s some talking up of Huntsman with a little talking down of Pawlenty on the side!

    Did you make a wittle misteak Ewick?

  • streiff

    why don’t you go away?

    Because unless you cease and desist your sniveling over the fact that you can’t read I’m going to punt you.

  • calamityjune

    It’s clearly a shot at Romney too because of his healthcare plan in his state. Didn’t you get it?

    But regardless of whether or not it’s an attack on Romney, that’s not the main point. I’ll even grant you your illusion that it’s not.

    It’s an attack on Huntsman and that is crystal clear. This tells me that you are disqualifying Huntsman here on Redstate. And that’s exactly contrary to what you demanded yesterday in your ‘zealot’ post.

    I can’t make my point any clearer to you. I’ve made it crystal clear that I don’t support Huntsman and many others by now have done the same. That’s fine, but some Republicans “do” support Huntsman and condoning an attack against him is driving those Republicans away. Clear enough?

    And now, the consequence of your funny video is that it has opened the door to attacks against some other Republican candidate. Get it Erick? This time?

    My terms for staying on Redstate and posting with other like minded Republicans and conservatives is that nobody directly attacks any candidate. If those terms aren’t agreeable to you then let me know. I suggest that they would be quite agreeable to most of the people on this site.

    Thanks anyway!

  • powertothepeople
  • aesthete
  • acat

    We are hardly like-minded, m’dear.

    You support Romney, I think he’s got severe judgement impairment issues and would prefer a different candidate, although I’ve still got my John McCain noseplugs if necessary.

    Mew

  • streiff

    we discussed it and realize that the site will undoubtedly fold without your continued participation. We are willing to self-immolate in defense of principle.

    I’m sure you appreciate the sacrifice we are making.

  • calamityjune

    [Redacted for language. -Jeff]

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    You would roll the seeds into your next joint and wonder why you kept hearing popping noises everytime you took another puff.

  • acat

    a progressive of any stripe is “with me” …

    and I find that the progressive-GOP types are actually “with me” *less* than the Obama types – simply because the Obama types have to compromise across the aisle and the GOP types don’t.

    The downside, of course, is that an actual Conservative GOP candidate has to compromise with both groups of progressives – first watering stuff down enough to get his (or her) own party on board, then fighting the Dems.

    (hint: that last bit there is why we need more Jim DeMint, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio types in the Senate)

    Mew

  • powertothepeople

    nt

  • acat

    that doesn’t mean I’m doing anything but {writing fiction} …

    Mew

  • powertothepeople
  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack
  • aesthete

    and disagreement. You’d best learn that difference.

  • powertothepeople
  • http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

    This, folks, is the perfect example of the unhinged nuttiness I was talking about.

    Bye bye.

  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil truth

    Though it did sound like she was holding a pistol to her head and saying “Do it my way or somebody gets hurt!”.

  • aesthete

    Gee, I’m sorry that we’re not polishing that bronzed statue of the Coiffed One in your garage enough for your liking.

  • http://www.gmsplace.com/ civil truth

    Oh wait, maybe it is…

    After all the slogan just said Huntsman 2012, and he was standing next to Obama in at least one frame.

    Obama/Huntsman 2012

    Yep, that rolls off the tongue easily (and into the spittoon).

    Those rhino bookends were icing on the cake.

  • earlgrey

    the dead white cat and Obambi?

  • buddha1556

    can you sarcastically say or imply that you missed the point yesterday before it dawns on you that you actually did?

    Your inability to coherently state your case combined with your unique powers of seeing things that aren’t there is a decidedly liberal trait. Please stop trying to pass yourself off as conservative.

    I have not committed to a candidate yet, but to me, your seemingly unwarranted worship of Romney is a strike against him.

    And that is the point from yesterday: Undecided people are looking for reasoned arguments, not bickering. If you feel comments are but doing your candidate justice, then write a “pro” diary. Otherwise, your silence will do more to help your candidate than anything you’re posted in the last 24 hours.

  • acat

    The cat just stares at Obama, who proceeds to talk himself in circles for 90 minutes.

    Mew

  • rightwingmom52
  • Aaron Gardner
  • rightwingmom52
  • lunaticrex

    but wait. BO wouldn’t appoint such a thick-headed…oh…never mind (apologies to Gilda Radner).

    Civil Truth: On your comment about Huntsman being BO’s running mate: I thought when watching it that it seems as if whoever made this thinks Huntsman is trying to primary BO.

    Thanks, Erick. Both for the video and your patience with former poster. And your ultimate blamming of him/her.

  • Bill S

    Mt. Dew through the nose is uncomfortable.

  • Bill S
  • http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

    …sorry.

  • acat

    and it’s hard to make a ham-sandwich-with-eyes without ‘em.

    It’d probably hold up under the lights better than Becker’s cat, though.

    Mew

  • Remington_Steele

    as the token Rombot at RS, even I was hoping CJ would get the blam! What a keystone example about what you really were talking about yesterday. Nice work Erick. :)

  • Remington_Steele

    as the token Rombot at RS, even I was hoping CJ would get the blam! What a keystone example about what you really were talking about yesterday. Nice work Erick. :)

  • izoneguy

    That bring out the trolls?

    Must be my sig line:

    “The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin.”

  • http://908StraightSt.wordpress.com/ mbecker908

    RS doesn’t have a problem with the records of either Romney or Huntsman. RS is an anti-Mormon site. I would have thought you knew that.

  • freemanja1991

    Olympia Snowe over this anyday.

  • swami7774

    No wonder Al Hunt and Mark Halperin love this guy.