Huntsman Tells CBS That Early Polls Are ‘Absolute Nonsense’
- Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:17pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman thinks the next president will be a former governor and that the 2012 GOP presidential primary polls, all of which have Huntsman in the basement, are “absolute nonsense.”
Appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Gov. Huntsman said that he will continue to campaign on his record no matter what the polls suggest.
“Let me just say, everybody kind of gets a label slapped on their forehead – which I think is unfortunate. All you have to do is look up at my record. My record is what it is,’he said. ‘I’m running proudly on my record. I am who I am – as a politician and as a human being.”
Gov. Huntsman’s recently released jobs plan calls for major tax reform and improvements to free trade. Entitled ”Time to Compete,” the plan fuses ideas from the Paul Ryan plan and the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles Commission.
“So I’m calling for that which is bold. I know it‘s going to be politically controversial but I think it is absolutely needed at this point in our nation’s history. Clearing out the cobwebs, clearing out the deductions, the corporate welfare, the subsidies, buying down the rate. And when I hear people saying you can take it down to zero, all I’m saying is you have to be real about the math here.”
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney are still the current GOP front-runners. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has not said whether she will run, but media attention has still hovered around her as she spoke in Iowa this weekend.
Prior to taking the stage for her much anticipated speech, a Palin fan made a comment about liberal ideology, that some have found to be insensitive. CNN on the comments made by Los Angles-based comedian Eric Golub before Gov. Palin spoke in Indianola, Iowa:
“After commending Palin on raising her son Trig while balancing other responsibilities, Golub made the analogy.
‘For that reason alone, the left should worship Sarah Palin and adopt her as one of their own,’ Golub said. ‘Because the leftist haters are an entire political ideology of special needs children.’
Golub continued by saying that liberals are needy and feel entitled.
‘And unlike Trig, they aren’t very lovable,’ Golub said. ‘All you hear from them is give me, give me, I need, I need, I want, I deserve, I’m entitled – no you don’t’.”
Since coming on to the national scene Gov. Palin has been quick to criticize Rahm Emanuel to Family Guy in regards to insensitive comments made about those with special needs. Gov. Palin‘s team is yet to comment on the comedian’s remarks.
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Comments (117)
PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:32pmHuntsman doesn’t even register on the polls and is not going to. The guy is a LOSER.
Report Post »Ookspay
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:43pmWas this the Huntsman child that was kidnapped in the 60′s? Because when this guy talks it looks and sounds like a hostage video. No chance John, soory thanks for playing… We are going to need someone very committed to conservative principles to save this Nation. Someone who is willing to fight like a GIRL!
Palin /West 2012 – Ookspay’s flavor of the day, lol
Report Post »BONETRAUMA
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:33pmLoser and a favorite of the dems. RINO. TEA 2012!
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:41pmhuntsman is a liberal “ringer”… I am surprised that the “polls” aren’t telling us he is the “front runner” for the repulseican nomination…
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:45pmSorry Huntsman, but Romney already has the sleazy RINO position all sewn up.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 9:07pm“I am who I am – as a politician and as a human being.”
Notice how he put “politician” ahead of “human being”?
And no where in there did he say “conservative”.
The problem with his tax plan is it does nothing to stop class warfare. We will simply return to what we had in the 90′s after 1 election.
Report Post »It appears his talk of “free trade” is more of the same garbage that got us where we are today. It should be Fair Trade, not Free Trade.
If we would implement the FairTax everything hitting our shores would have to go up 23% (-tariffs changes) while domestic goods would stay the same (at the retail level). No more hanky panky with tariffs, no more manipulating the stock market through trade, no more hemorrhaging jobs, and a lot less influence from lobbyist.
GunDoctor
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 9:54pmWe‘re talking about a guy that wouldn’t even win his home state. After flying around the country speaking about global warming….while getting paid for being governor of Utah….what would make any of us thing that he would stick around long enough to do his job as president?
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 10:06pmWhen PALIN steps into the ring….The RINOS will LOSE….RUN SARAH RUN!!!
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:57pm“GOP presidential primary polls, all of which have Huntsman in the basement, are “absolute nonsense.”
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If the polls had him way up he would swear that polls are right and important. This guy is a walking advertisement for a “political moderates suck” ad.
thepatriotdave
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 11:58pmHe’s been slapped on the forehead one too many times!
Report Post »savagemonger
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 12:20amWhat a joke.. Cry baby.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Videos
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 11:34amWe ALL know that when he’s the guy, you’ll pullit for him (’…even vote for a can of tuna over Obama.’) PLEAAAAAASE RUN$ARAHRUN!!
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 12:34pmAnother rich kid trying to buy his way into the White House with his billionaire daddy’s money.
Report Post »IntegrityFirst08
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 2:21pmWheres all the Ron Paul guys?????? Comon guys your’re dissappointing me.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA……..BILDERBERGS………..WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA Just like Huntsman they cry.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAA……..He put a needle in a baby arm………..WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
RON PAUL 2012 or im throwing rocks with the Labor unions. haha losers
Report Post »gabbygirl
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:26pmHe doesn’t have a chance thank goodness. We want to recover and that isn’t possibly with a progressive Republican.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 11:53amWSJ (aka Rupert) loves him. He’s in. Done deal. :^)
Report Post »TeaPartyPatriot
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:21pmFormer OBOZO employee huntsman: “Early polls are ‘absolute nonsense’”
Former House Speaker crazy pelosi: “…elections shouldn’t matter as much as they do…”
…losers think alike !!!
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 7:21pmYep polls are nonsense when I am at yhe bottom. :0)
Report Post »clockwatcher
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:20pmYet another looser who will kiss the ring of the democrats. These people can’t be worked with they must be defeated at the polls.
Report Post »potvin
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:18pmWhy doesn’t Huntsman go back to China? I’m sure he has a better chance of being named head of the Communist Party then he does of being the Republican nominee.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on September 5, 2011 at 6:25amwhat make you think he isn’t working for Obama.
Report Post »GaryInTheMiddle
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:11pmJohn, you are absolute nonsense.
Report Post »drago
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:06pmHuntsman was cast from the same mold as odumbo, nuff said….
Report Post »jjoy
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 8:42pmYep… so was romney…
Report Post »carkrueger
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:06pmOMG – MAKE IT STOP! I got through about 3min and it was all I could take. He’s so stone cold.
Report Post »Sean In LI
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:55pmHuntsman is being set up as the mainstream media “maverick Republican” foil. They’re making sure Huntsman is seen by as many folks as possible so that when the eventual nominee is named, they can point to Huntsman and say the GOP nominee must be “extreme”.
Report Post »1bambam
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:18pmHe‘s right I wouldn’t put much stock in polls in general Palin would be by far the best person to run this Country and turn it in the right direction People say she is un-electable over and over and over I started falling for that B.S. started saying yeah Perry looks pretty good (and he does) but he has some major policy issue…but I was willing to settle and put my support behind him…but when elected I think he will kinda step in line with the powers to be……As for Palin she is a fighter (for what is right for this country) and I don’t think for one minute she would align herself with the powers to be she will fight them and everything that is wrong or went wrong with this great Nation ..the same way she fought Exxon and her own Republican Party Cronies….Run Palin Run Drill baby Drill …..Choose Sarah Palin don’t give into the media and the ruling elite stay with Palin she Can WIN!!!
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:55pmHuntsman is nothing by another slick talking RHINO ..
folks don t take my word for it but go back and look at his record ..
Michelle and Sarah are the only true Conservatives and the media is doing a hatchet job
Report Post »Tired of it all
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:51pmWatch, this guy will hang around long enough with the help of MSM. He will then with great fanfare announce he is running as a moderate 3rd party candidate. Thus ensuring 4 more years of our DEAR LEADER.
Report Post »the58thstate
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:48pmits because their polling conservatives for the most part. they should be polling dems only, he would do much better there.
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:46pmand so is Huntsman… Nonsense
Report Post »America_First
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:45pmHuntsman is just another rino that stands no chance…he should become a democRat and take the “Checkered Pants” republicans with him…Crony capitalism must go the way of the dinosaurs…like jimmy carter and now obama…
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:44pmFor you and and your siy global warming…………it reflects truth, your last.
Report Post »redbone007
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:39pmthis man was planted by the left…they love him and the left media has been trying to push him on the right. he needs to change to a democrat and run against obama in the democratic primary.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:48pmI mentioned that to my wife last week. Huntsman is “center-left” and would give Democrats a choice if they are unhappy with the solidly left Obumbler.
Report Post »oriondma05
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:48pmDefinitely. My friends on facebook that are super lefties are talking about how they would like Huntsman to be next president if Obama gets defeated. Says a lot about him as a candidate.
Report Post »1bambam
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:52pmLook at the stupid impish glowing grin ready to crack up laughing on this A-Holes Face and he looks off to his right looking for a slap on the back for asking such an asinine question,,,, (is it Sheffer),,,,, trying to bait him to attack Bachmann…. I have no respect at all for that man …..
Report Post »PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:34pmNBC swoons over Huntsman. Never seen anything like it.
Hillary/Huntsman 2012
THAT would make better sense. Obama is an anchor around the dems legs dragging them down.
Report Post »82dAirborne
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:39pmThey are nonsense………… If you are in last place John! Quit wasting time and other people’s money.
Report Post »sambachico
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:37pmHuntsman is simply part of a political family. This guys smacks RINO even more than Romney or Perry.
Report Post »He received 66 votes at AMES in IOWA. As Jon Stewart said, the huntsman supports could have all gone to Quiznos and the fire marshall would not have had a problem.
go2gym
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:36pmNot news. Anyone polling in the toilet early on will always say the polls are nonsense. If he was polling #1 he never would have said it.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:32pmWish Jon Huntsman a good life………….but NOT as the 45th President.
Report Post »Rational Man
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:32pmHuntsman Tells CBS That Early Polls Are ‘Absolute Nonsense’
Huntsman is ‘Absolute Nonsense’!
Report Post »SPOT_OF_TEA
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:31pmGlenn Beck really admires this guy’s father however I have yet to hear Glenn say anything about Huntsman Jr….I think Glenn is being polite by using the old philosophy if you don’t have anything good to say about someone,say nothing at all.
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:39pmActually, Glenn sharply criticized Jon Jr. a couple of years ago. He apologized to Huntsman, Sr. about it, and I am sure that he doesn’t want to be making a similar apology anytime soon.
Report Post »Vechorik
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:33pmYou never know with Glenn. Glenn supposedly supports the Tea Party Glenn loves Jim Rogers:
Yet Jim Rogers throws his support behind Ron Paul for president
http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/billionaire-investor-jim-rogers-throws-his-support-behind-ron-paul
Glenn says he’s a strict constitutionalist, but his actions speak otherwise. I think Glenn has twisted “too much religion” into the Founding Father’s ideas. The Constitution was set up so that America would live in liberty no matter if a religious person was president–or not. It’s gotten to the point that presidential candidates have to hold prayer rallies to get Christian votes. If we just followed the Constitution, no one would be separated by their different faiths. The Constitution defines life and liberty for all (anti-abortion, etc). The Constitution should UNITE us where religion often divides us.
I think that’s why Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate that boasts a favorable public opinion
Report Post »AP-GfK
8/18-22/11; 1,000 adults, 4.1% margin of error
Mode: Live telephone interviews
GOP release, Favorable / Unfavorable
Newt Gingrich: 27 / 57
Jon Huntsman: 17 / 28
Sarah Palin: 36 / 59 (chart)
Mitt Romney: 39 / 41 (chart)
Rick Santorum: 20 / 31
Michele Bachmann: 35 / 43
Ron Paul: 37 / 36
Herman Cain: 21 / 27
Rick Perry: 33 / 36
Rudy Giuliani: 50 / 40
glennrocks
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:30pmIt is true. John McCain was in the bottom and was going to drop out. Then for some weird reason he became the nominee for the Republican party. I can’t figure out how he did it considering nobody liked him.
Report Post »PoliticalJunkieToo
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:39pmI have a theory as to why horrible candidates like McCain and Bush get the nomination.
The GOP has LOST what it stands for so the majority of REAL CONSERVATIVES (as in follow the Constitution types) LEFT and become Independents or Libertarians or joined the Constutition Party.
Since a LOT of the true conservatives left the GOP, they canNOT vote in the Republican Primary. Who is still registered to vote in the GOP – RINO voters who vote for a weak RINO candidate.
Yet, INDEPENDENT conservatives and conservatives in other parties KNOW their candidate cannot win so they end up voting in the GENERAL election for the horrible RINO the GOP elected.
I RE-JOINED the GOP last year so I WILL VOTE in the Republican Primary. Hopefully, others who left will understand they give up their GOP candidate CHOICE if they let the RINOS in the party pick another RINO.
Report Post »Boola519
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:24pmand huntsman the RINO will NEVER say a word about the 3000 muslims converging to party at SixFlags TX on Muslim Day. apparently happy muslim day is 9/11.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 5:21pmHuntsmans right PALIN early polls PALIN are a bunch of PALIN junk……..PALIN.
Report Post »drago
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 6:07pmencinom, there ya go again, making no sense at all, go away kid….
Report Post »barber2
Posted on September 4, 2011 at 7:40pmAgree with DRAGO. Oh, and please take your meds .
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