Bill Clinton: ‘I Like Huntsman and Romney’
- Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:19pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Former President Bill Clinton says that as far as Republicans go he likes GOP 2012 hopefuls Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney. Clinton made his comments on the presidential field at the Aspen Ideas Festival Saturday evening. While Clinton still thinks President Obama will win reelection in 2012, he commented that the former Massachusetts governor is fronting a much stronger campaign than he did in 2008, and Michele Bachmann is looking like “a better candidate” than he thought. Clinton remarked:
“But, y’know, I like the governors: I like Huntsman and Romney. Romney’s a MUCH better candidate than he was last time, because he’s not apologizing for signing the health-care bill. He’s got another creative way of saying we oughta repeal Obamacare, but that’s prob’ly the price of gettin’ the nomination.
“Huntsman hasn’t said what he’s for yet, but I just kinda like him. [laughter] He LOOKS authentic – he looks like a real guy. [laughter] I mean, a real human being. I like his family, I like his kind of iconoclastic way. And he was a pretty good governor. And he wasn’t a right-wing ideologue.
“Bachmann’s been a better candidate than I THOUGHT she’d be, and I don’t agree with her on nearly anything. But she’s got a very compelling personal story, and she gotta lot of juice, and she turns [on] a lot of those anti-government crowd.”
Clinton went on to comment that he thought President Obama would win reelection based off things like the President’s handling of the auto industry crisis, record on national security, and that “He took steps which avoided a depression.” Clinton:
“It’s not like he doesn’t have a story to tell. I also think he’s done a good job in trying to harmonize America’s differences, trying to widen the circle of opportunity. I think he’s got a good record on gay rights. I think he’s got a good record on trying to promote diversity in a positive way.”
Interesting comments. Is “a good record on gay rights” pushing the removal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” policy which you installed? Great story.
While Clinton’s support of the fellow Democrat and current President is to be expected, it will be interesting to see if his folksy comments on three Republican presidential candidates Saturday along with similar statements made in an ABC News interview last Thursday will have any effect on the GOP Presidential primary campaign.
With some commentators already questioning if Jon Huntsman is too moderate to be elected by today’s GOP, will Clinton’s kind words be hurled against the former Utah governor by his fellow 2012 hopefuls? Will conservatives who already have an issue with Mitt Romeny’s “health care thing” become further frustrated by Clinton’s approval?
How do you think Bill Clinton’s comments will be used, if at all, as the Republican primary race tightens in coming months?



















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Mr. Oshawott
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:51pmYes, thanks to Bill Clinton’s endorsement of these three candidates, I’ll be sure to steer clear of them.
Report Post »stopspendingourmoney
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 9:52pmhe did not say anthing about Ron Paul.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:51pmShocker, since they are so much alike!
Report Post »TRUSTNO MAN
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:49pmWell THAT clinches it!!! I’m voting for Sarah Palin whether she runs or not. Bubba!!! Will you please stay home as your told too!!! Frikkin kids.
Report Post »normbal
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:49pmAll the more reason for true American patriots NOT to like them.
But it’s what the new world disorder wants, no?
Report Post »STRINGS
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:44pmThey “as in the far left” will try to boost Boost Bachmann because they believe their is no chance in hell for her to win, little do they know.
Report Post »Look4DBigPicture
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:57pmThe Dems obviously don’t know how to find their way out of a paper sack. Anyone but Obama.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:44pmHe like Monica and look what happened…. I wish he loved Hillary (LOL)
Report Post »The Bagginator
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:38pmThat’s enough reason not to nominate either one of them. Thanks, Bill.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:36pmRomney just got the kiss of death from Slick Willy.
Palin time!
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:36pmLOL — Yes, ditto to “All the more reason NOT to vote for these two” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Mr. Clinton has probably been scheming and planning with Mrs. Clinton ever since Obama stole the race from her, since it was her turn —– to have Hillary run in 2012. Probably figure she (or Obama) could beat those two or….he wouldn‘t mind having either one as President bc they’re more like him — LOL
Rayblue
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:35pmKiss of death from the oddfather..
Report Post »alienguns
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:35pmBill loves them……..that is ANOTHER reason that I don’t
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 9:35amI second that!
Report Post »thermonator
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:35pmI like Bachmann and Cain.
Report Post »4freedomssake
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:21amI also like Bachmann and Cain, they both are genuine, and they have the Charisma needed to get elected. And they scare the hell out of the Liberal Socialists. Which is why they are trying to marginalize both. Bachmann Talks the Talk, and Walks the Walk!
Report Post »riverdog1
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 1:58pmfor what, a comedy team?
Report Post »chips1
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:35pmThe KISS of DEATH. Get away from me, Bill. Even your wife is keeping away.
Report Post »DianeCee
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:34pmIt is time for the Clinton’s to retire in peace and quiet and to leave the nation and our people alone. They’ve done enough harm!
Report Post »sbenard
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:33pmI wonder if he likes them because he thinks they can’t beat Obama.
Obama is THE most catastrophic error of our generation! It’s only going to get worse and worse the longer he is in office!
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:31pmthe liberals are feeding you guys bull crap like this to try to get you to vote for these two losers because they know both of these men would get beat by king obama hands down so my fellow Americans stop falling for this horse crap
Report Post »Pujols
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:31pmIf Bill Clinton likes you there is something wrong You.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:40pm@PUJOLS ~~~ Indeed!
Report Post »ex-koolaide
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 10:43amditto
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:30pmOF course you do. They are progressives and not very well disguised either, thank GOD.
Please listen to this video carefully. It is vitally important as it implicates some members of congress and both hillary and the noman specifically.
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=317705
Report Post »NEAF
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 10:35amThis video is amazing. Now I am doing my own research about it, just like Glenn says. A lot of things make sense. My political science professor (from Ghana, Africa) suggested the any baby borned while the airplane is “flying” over US territory, must be granted a US citizenship. I almost jump of my chair a slap him so hard to send him back where he came from. I am a 42 year old combat dissabled veteran. We had around 24 students in that classroom from which one white, one Hispanic/Latino (Puerto Rico), and the rest blacks. This university consist at least of 90% black students and professors.
Report Post »glennisright.com
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:30pmWho cares one iota what Clinton thinks?
Report Post »Bum thrower
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:59pmHe likes big assed, plump jewish girls,too!!! LOL gotta cigar?
Report Post »cosette
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 7:29pmClinton thinks? With what, his male member?
Report Post »OneRepublic4us
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 8:16pmIsn’t he starting to look like W.C. Fields? I have no interest in what this liar has to say either!
Report Post »ccr
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 9:15am@glennisright The Blaze is just trying to minimalize Romney by saying Clinton “likes” him. Huntsman’s waaaay down on the % polls now so must be Romney….oh, but Dems will give Huntsman attention since he believes BHO is a “remarkable” man and was BHO’s ambassador and will help splinter votes from Romney. They did the same thing with MA health care solution. The differences are critical and in line with our Constitution. But……..people are sometimes too lazy to think for themselves.
In truthful reporting…….COULD it have been that both have had experience as governors? Yes, Pawlenty was governor, but not as “dangerous” as Romney’s poll and $$ raised numbers are looking.
Oh, but this is really not the looking for truth site……..it appears to be a tool for promoting only tea-party approved candidates…..not really truth.
Report Post »Tracking
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 8:33pmClinton is the first President EVER to leave office:
Report Post »Second President ever to be impeached.
Charged with lying to Federal Grand Jury.
To be disbarred.
To be found guilty of perjury.
To be sued for sexual crimes (harassment)
To fail to earn the respect of the Military and they refused to execute a “Right Face” when he left office and got on the helicopter.
The investigative “Star Report” is so bad, it cannot be opened and seen until after his death.
The democrats, his own party, said he was a rapist that roamed the halls of the White House, after reading this report.
Clintons legacy and reputation was destructive, disrespectful and left a foul imprint on his Presidency and the White House.
The American people probably don’t care what he thinks. We already know who and what he is. He seems to think (along with many politicians) that we suffer memory loss. His wife is more of the same. Hillary wrote her thesis on Alinsky. 75 pages of PRAISE for Saul Alinsky and his school and teachings. So…we are not stupid nor suffer memory or brain cell loss and functions. I wish all these people would retire, leave, go away//you just can’t get rid of any of them once they are “in” office.
I don‘t give one iota about Clintons’ “rectal Recitals”.
STRINGS
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:28pmHey it was bound to happen sooner or later, to have a Clinton tell the truth for once, also is it me or does the picture of Bill Clinton look like he just farted?
Report Post »MrButcher
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 8:35pmAdd your comments
Report Post »Your Name Here
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 2:59pmActually, I think he just found Anthony’s weiner… “Doh!”
Report Post »alces1
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:03pmIt is the same look he always has when he is telling lies.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:27pmRoger Ailes will be choosing the potted plant/ham sandwich…er, Republican candidate.
Report Post »cosette
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 7:28pmIdiot Huff Po plant.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 11:50amSPOKEN LIKE a mindless Liberal. AILES doesn‘t have anything to do with GOP political choices but it’s understandable why you one-note Liberals would think so since the MSM tells you what to think and how to vote and you want the government to tell you what to eat, wear, how to live and where to go to school, etc.
Clinton and the rich insiders (Rothschild) etc. who back Huntsman and Romney don’t get it. WE have found out, thanks to Glenn Beck, that there are 3.5 times more PATRIOTS than you sheeple liberals, therefore we can kick out all the interlopers, liberals, Marxists, Communists, Socialist and/or One World Globalists and other ANTI-AMERICAN politicians who USE OUR FREEDOMS to harm America (Muslim Cultists) ….and we will. There are NOT enough of you to stop this return to PATRIOTISM. Many, many of us are also backing SARAH PALIN (with ALLEN WEST as VEEP) there are several excellent Patriots available for VEEP but never, ever a RINO. Having said that, I would vote for MICKEY MOUSE over Obama.
Report Post »SheriS
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 12:40pmGee, that sounds like somethin a ******* Troll would say! I think Mr. Ailes has plenty to do without working in the elections! I’m sure he is gather evident to go after Media Matters! I trust Mr. Ailes more then I trust any democrat whether in office or just a regulat citizen! They all seem to check their brains in the closet and shout stupid comments like yours!
Report Post »Balmy
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:57pmIf ignorance was a disability, you would qualify for a FULL pension.
Report Post »ewv24
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:26pmWho gives a flying F*** what Clinton thinks…………..
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 8:01pmIt‘s important to know so we don’t vote with him.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 10:55pmHey, hey, be nicer to bill clinton. He’s been pus-sy whipped by that liberal trouble making wife of his.
Report Post »He grew up a good little Christian boy and actually went to church. His wife changed all that. She only latched onto him because she though he was going somewhere, and he did. But as I remember she couldn’t keep her mouth shut and almost turned people off before he could get elected.
Confederate
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 5:27pmThat is exactly what I thought when I read the headline. Great minds think alike in this case. http://www.confederatepowflag.com
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 7:45pmYeah, he should stick it back in his pants!
Report Post »Jim AZ
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:07amheez problah figurin theh got purty mowthz
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:25pmWell if bill likes them, then absolutly DONT VOTE FOR EITHER ONE OF THEM.
Report Post »Center right
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 7:05pmYea, that makes sense, do not vote for someone because another likes them.
Report Post »Titania
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 8:32pmDUH! Just the reaction he was expecting and planning to get
Report Post »Anne G
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 10:07amPerhaps thats exactly what Bill wants you to do? Check these hopefuls out by looking at their records, and DO NOT PAY ANY ATTENTION TO WHAT THE LEFT SAYS.
Report Post »Jacque
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 12:04pmThey are both progressives, socialists lite, of course the lying impeached idiot likes them.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:24pmThat is enough reason NOT to vote for either of them!
Report Post »Alky
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 7:06pmAbsoloutly!!
Report Post »ReviveOurNation
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 7:10pmWe are awake now! Never again will we let the Left, the MSM or the Establishment Right decide our candidate for us.
No to McRomney and McHuntsman!!
Report Post »Seth Patriot
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 9:03pmAmen Bro.
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 9:17pmJust what I was thinking. Thanks Bill for the heads up!
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 9:30pmYa got that right. RINOs no more!!!
Report Post »ILUVJESUS
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 12:27amLike so many other aged hippies, Clinton looks really bad, sick…..I’ll….man, he looks 15 years older than he really is. Don’t do drugs!
Report Post »stopspendingourmoney
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 9:48pmGood I am voting for Ron Paul.
Report Post »retriever
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 11:41pmNo, but neither of them are real presidential material. Neither of them would really defend the Constitution and Bill of Rights if cost them votes and power.
Report Post »GBMBulletsSKNRD
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 4:04amThat indorsment is like a nail in the coffin.
Report Post »Pastor Ray
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 11:06amAMEN Rob! AMEN!
Report Post »hwyphd1
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 11:17amI wonder witch one clinton will vote for?????
Report Post »niki
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 11:44amI agree 100%. Whoever the left likes, I’ll make sure NOT to vote for.
Report Post »Lamarr01
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 9:43pmI thought Huntsman and Romney were Democrats. The Bilderbergers will support Rick Perry so he should be the next President. Rick is an open borders kind of guy and he probably voted like a Democrat most of his life.
For you geneology buffs, all of the Presidents have a common ancestor. Only Martin Van Buren is not a decendent of John (Lackland) Plantagenet, King of England (1166-1216). This was found by tracing both the male and female lines. Any of the twelve declared candidates that are not decendants of King John don’t have much of a chance.
Report Post »jcase16
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 10:18amYou do realize that they may actually fear these three candidates and so they are choosing to give them the “kiss of death” right? Are you all too blind to see this. Why don‘t you base your beliefs and judgments on the people running and not some moron who is probably just trying to screw with the republican’s minds. Are you all really that naive to believe that he doesn’t have an ulterior motive. Yes it could be that he actually likes them and is telling the truth, but who the freak knows. Listen to the candidates and then listen to your heart and then pick. It’s stupid to let others influence what you think because of what they think…
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:23pmOf course he loves them, they’re Neocons.
Neocons are warmongering Liberals like Clinton and his wife!
They LOVE those guys!
Report Post »Weiners Wiener
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:29pmCalling Bachmann a ‘neo-con‘ makes it clear you don’t know the meaning of the word.
Report Post »zurie
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 8:14pmIsn’t a neocon a type of Transformer?
Report Post »Pujols
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:30pmOf course ‘Sick Willie’ likes them. They will deal with the Devil.
We need a real LEADER as in 30 years ago.
No even better than that or this ship will sink. We need a CONSERVATIVE!
Report Post »Revere1
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:32pmOf course if Clinton really liked them, maybe he shouldn‘t give them the ’gift’ of a public endorsement. http://www.elephantwatcher.com/2011/06/which-campaign-is-most-disciplined.html
Report Post »Pujols
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:34pmOne more thing. Hillary said, “I never run for President.” She’s a liar.
Wait, it’s the Republicans who all lie or was the all white people?
Obama needs a big kick. Hillary for V.P. in 2012.
She’s as bad as Obama, Biden & McCain combined.
Remember you heard it hear first.
Report Post »GETLIFE
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 6:59pmI don’t care who Bill Clinton likes.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 7:15pmHe likes cigars dipped in U know what too…
Report Post »nptden
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 7:28pmClinton’s endorsement is a good reason to not vote for either of them.
Report Post »thinkinghuman
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 8:12pmso easily fooled
Report Post »thinkinghuman
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 8:08pmClinton is a POLITICIAN. He is not going to tell the truth about anything, and if he can stir up discord among the opposing party, he is going to act like he LIKES those guys. I am not influenced.
Report Post »stopspendingourmoney
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 9:54pmI am voting Ron Paul then.
Report Post »rdk
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 10:35pmAnd their positions on the three wars is what?
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on July 3, 2011 at 10:47pmThat may be the #1 reason to run as fast as you can in the opposite direction. Note that crazed look on his face.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 12:05amAll the more reason NOT TO VOTE for THE RINOs.
Report Post »ILUVJESUS
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 12:26amHe liked Quail at one time too, when he wanted Quail to run for Pres. Quail could have easily been beaten.
Report Post »american1st
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 12:56ammore evidence it is a one party system, bill knows they will push the same agenda he and bush and obama all pushed, the left/right republican/democrat is a false dichotomy., it is time to vote for a true independent …
NO RINOS NO NEOCONS 2012
if you haven’ listened to what Ron Paul is saying maybe you should Google his videos
Report Post »nptden
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 1:19amWho in their real minds could believe this BS SOB. They have to be buried in the Kennedy myth. This is a a piece of **** president of the first order who persists in the Democratic party line. Look at he real facts of who is ENRICHED by their policies.
Report Post »Wayner
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 1:50amIf Clinton is for them,, I’m against them!!
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 4:06amNow that I understand ‘Progressivism’ I won’t vote for anyone a Liberal will like to see elected.
Report Post »notreally
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 7:49amObama is involved in 6 shooting conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, but that’s okay with liberals.
It’s a religion, liberalism is. One cannot reason with religious zealots.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 9:38am.
Dems love who they can beat.
Like McCain, they’ll talk them up until the primary is over,
then they’ll crap all over them.
If Clinton is for it; I’m against it.
Report Post »thegrassroots
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 10:17amGood job campaigning against Huntsman and Romney, Bill! Keep It Up! America Appreciates It!
Report Post »MIBUGNU2
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 10:43amLike ANYONE really care what clinton LIKES ???
Report Post »F’N RINOS, ALL !!!!
poorrichardsnews
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 12:38pmFirst Al Gore. Now Bill Clinton. Who’s next? Chavez? http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/7231042077/mitt-romney-is-bill-clinton-approved
Report Post »Tex Expatriate
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 2:41pmShallow thinkers like you–let me amend that, to non-thinkers like you–need to stop thinking in cliches. Warmonger, neo-con–both cliches from the twentieth century. You need to read history, dork.
Report Post »Seabee79
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 4:05pmwrong answer dumb A$$$ they are not nocons.
Report Post »they are RINOS with similar beliefs as clintooooooon has.
Pujols
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 4:19pmWho cares what this Freak thinks.
What does Jimmy ‘The Peanut Head’ Carter think? That’s News. He hates Jews too.
I will always vote for Republicans.
Report Post »When they leave office you don’t have to hear what they think everyday.
Ruler4You
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 4:54pmBoy, did you hit that one right on!
Report Post »getalong
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 5:13pmIf Clinton likes these two, then I surely won’t be voting for them. I have my eye on Michelle Bachman. I only hope that she thinks long and hard when picking her running mate. If only Christie would consider a run!
Report Post »Pydge
Posted on July 4, 2011 at 6:44pmWhat a statement. Bill Clinton is THE problem –A total zipper. What a false sense of reality this guy Billy Zipper has—everybit along with BarryO!! Totally traumatized as children, and lying ever since; narcissistc—troublesome private lives and expenses—wearisome. Woman issues. Clinton, sex; Barry? Mommyism with Valerie Jarrett and all his Progressive commie pigletes.
Report Post »Ebbertron
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 8:46amthis is a co-opting tactic….and apprently it works with all of you.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:52amOne HUMONGOUS reason NOT to vote for either one!
Report Post »old white guy
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 11:57amwell, that shoud be the kiss of death for those guys.
Report Post »nysparkie
Posted on July 5, 2011 at 2:00pmV-MAN MACE : Well that leaves Romney and Huntsman out of my choices. If Clintoon likes em. That turns me off 100% !!!
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