I see that a mere two days after my raising the notion of Huntsman running as an independent, that others are now doing same - I insist on believing I was the first to see the logic of it [although only the small comfort of this delusion shall be my reward] - apparently polls suggest that the electorate is particularly primed for a third party run this time around, what with the president seemingly not especially liked by anyone at this point and congress utterly despised by most as well - to me it seems somewhat obvious since I don't know how else to explain Hunstman's doomed to fail strategy for winning the GOP primary. I mean, I suppose he could just simply be an idiot - so many of our best people are these days.
[and let's not forget Mitch Daniels as a 3rd party candidate since it seems the reason he dropped out was the critical attention his long separation from his wife would draw from social conservatives in the GOP primary - his wife apparently was none too thrilled by that prospect, and one can hardly blame her. But again, the thing about Huntsman is he's rich and it's hard to see anyone other than a rich guy being able to pull off a 3rd party run - I mean it's speculated that Obama could have as much as a billion dollars to put towards reelection - hell, this time next year the guy could be viewed by a significant majority as the worst president ever and still possibly pull out a victory with that kind of money to spend. Some people in this regard mention Trump - but that's mostly liberals trying to make conservatives look bad by linking their agenda with an idiot like Trump - the man's a clown and all that's needed is a cursory look beneath the veneer of his public persona to make that obvious to everyone and therefore he's not even remotely a serious candidate - shit, the guy appears in gaudy, low budget commercials in Canada hawking mattresses for one of his lousy companies - mattresses!! Again, liberals love the guy cause he makes conservatives look like morons - although, Trump voted for Obama, so... one almost starts to think that politics in America is in a perilously degenerative state]
