COMMENTARY | It's been frequently said that Jon Huntsman is the most electable GOP candidate. So where is he?
Is he waiting for the fracas to subside, so he can emerge triumphant after all the others have hopelessly undermined themselves? He's skipping the Iowa caucuses, asserting that Iowa will not be what decides the GOP nomination, according to The Washington Post. Many voters remain undecided. Anything could happen.
According to a New Year's Eve article on the Washington Post, things are improving economically, and our president is not in quite so much hot water with Americans as he's been during his relentlessly challenged presidency. He stepped into a mess that took decades to create, yet many shortsighted Americans want to lay the blame squarely on his shoulders. This is simply illogical. He didn't even have enough time in office to be the cause of the mess we're in. Add to this the blatant hostility and lack of cooperation he's faced from his hopelessly stubborn bipartisan Congress (we pay them how much again?) and it's a wonder that anything at all was accomplished. The president deserves some recognition. His approval ratings are up, and it's about time.
What could President Obama have done in office if he'd had cooperation instead of hostility? I hope we get to find out, but if Republicans simply vote the party line, the next president could immediately undo everything that President Obama has done. That'll show us. What were we thinking, electing a president who actually was willing to step into a big mess and try to fix it?
I want Jon Huntsman to win the GOP nomination because if American voters are so fickle as to switch directions mid-stream, Huntsman is the only candidate that doesn't strike fear into my heart. If any of the other candidates were to unseat our hard working president, I and millions of other struggling middle class Americans will be shaking with terror. If Huntsman wins the nomination and steps into the White House, I will sigh heavily but I will not cry.
Huntsman has been accused of working for the enemy, because he served under President Obama as ambassador to China in 2009. How he handled it is explored in detail by Melinda Liu on Newsweek's Daily Beast, published that year. He was working for the United States first. That's what a president does.
Huntsman was re-elected as governor in his home state of Utah in 2008, by a wide margin. He must have done a good job.
Huntsman has been keeping a low profile, enabling him to escape saying or doing anything profoundly stupid, which none of the others have managed. He also has declined to participate in the mud-slinging, although his daughters are cleverly partaking, according to the Huffington Post.
Jon Huntsman, where are you?
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