{"id":5699,"date":"2011-08-27T00:09:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-27T07:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5699"},"modified":"2011-08-27T00:09:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T07:09:54","slug":"just-when-we-thought-one-might-be-sane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/27\/just-when-we-thought-one-might-be-sane\/","title":{"rendered":"Just When We Thought One Might Be Sane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like Diogenes of Sinope\u2019s famous search for an honest man, today we face a similar dilemma.  Our search for a sane Republican candidate for President has been equally fruitless.  And, just when we thought one might be sane, Jon Huntsman has turned out to be just a pretender.  Like the rest, he would balance the budget on the backs of the poor and middle classes, making us pay more, so the super rich and criminal corporations can pay less.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"27HuntsmanHat\"As our friend Jed Lewinson pointed out<\/a><\/font> over at the Daily Kos, GOP candidate and so-called "moderate" Jon Huntsman called for some "shared sacrifice" from the rich on the PBS Newshour this Thursday, but of course that "sacrifice" should not come in the form of a tax increase<\/strong>. I agree completely with this assessment of that statement by Huntsman during the interview:<\/font><\/p>\n

Excuse me, but isn’t punting on that question pretty much the definition of hesitating? And how can you be taken seriously if you simultaneously rule out tax increases?<\/font><\/p>\n

Sure, Huntsman talks a good game, and he’s great at delivering "adult in the room" soundbites, but when comes down to it, on the most important issues, he’s every bit as big a baby as every other Republican in the field.<\/font><\/p>\n

During this interview he also promoted means testing Social Security which would turn it into a welfare program, which of course is just one step in getting rid of it altogether<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Here\u2019s the video.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Now, in the polls only 1% of Republicans support Huntsman.  That must be the 1% who have figured out he\u2019s not different from the rest.  Republicans do NOT represent YOU!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like Diogenes of Sinope\u2019s famous search for an honest man, today we face a similar dilemma.  Our search for a sane Republican candidate for President has been equally fruitless.  And, just when we thought one might be sane, Jon Huntsman has turned out to be just a pretender.  Like the rest, he would balance the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}