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Tag Archives: Jon Huntsman
Dead Blogging The New Hampshire Primary Results
Question, comments, bitter recriminations from 35,000 feet up (the hardworking staff fled to South Carolina early, remember?): • Who was that screaming meemie at Mitt Romney’s victory speech? • James Carville is a moron (for insisting on CNN that the … Continue reading
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Tagged CNN, James Carville, Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, MSNBC, Newt Gingrich, palmetto.Steve Schmidt
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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Extreme New Hampshire Edition)
Once around the New Hampshire airwaves, James, and don’t spare the horses. • Mitt Romney’s American Optimism This is Mitt as good cop, doing the “I See An America” thing. Meanwhile, Romney’s bad cop, the Restore Our Future Super … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Huntsman’s Destiny Edition)
Headline on this week’s Peggy Noonan Wall Street Journal column: Gingrich Is Making Romney Better Next week’s headline: Huntsman Is Making Romney Battered That will largely be thanks to Our Destiny, a Super PAC backing GOP presidential afterthought Jon Huntsman … Continue reading
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Tagged Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, New York Times, Newt Gingrich, Our Destiny PAC, Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
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GOP Social Studies
It’s not that retail politics is for losers in the Republican presidential primary race, but the candidates stumping hardest in Iowa and New Hampshire – Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry – are generally polling lowest. (Exception that … Continue reading
It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (@Jon2012girls Edition)
Those irrepressible Huntsman gals were in town yesterday, courtesy of the Boston Herald. Not surprisingly, the feisty local tabloid ran a nice feature about the shindig: Jon Huntsman’s gals: Mitt’s boys ‘play hard to get’ on Twitter In the battle for … Continue reading
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Tagged @Hermanator2012Gals, @Jon2012girls, Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Jon Huntsman
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Dead Blogging The GOP Iowa Debate
The GOP presidential primary pluggers had at it again Saturday night in the ABC News/Des Moines Register debate in Iowa. The hardworking staff caught as much of it as we could, and here are some random observations (see video via this … Continue reading
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Tagged $10000 bet, @Jon2012girls, ABS, Des Moines Register, Diane Sawyer, GOP Iowa debate, Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry
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Rick Perry & Thrust (PAC Man Edition)
While most restrictions on independent advocacy groups have been stripped away by the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, one has remained: that PACs, Super PACs, 501(c)4 organizations and etc. (primer here) cannot coordinate their advertising with a candidate’s ad … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Smith, Free & Strong America, Jon Huntsman, Make Us Great Again, Mitt Romney, Our Destiny PAC, Politico, Rick Perry
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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Huntsman Sort-Of-Super PAC Edition)
GOP nevergonnabe Jon Huntsman, who has tracked resolutely at up to 2% in the presidential primary polls, actually has a non-canine friend: Our Destiny PAC, which has just launched this ad in New Hampshire (via NH Journal/Politico): Yikes. Maybe they … Continue reading
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Tagged Jon Huntsman, nevergonnabe, NH Journal, Our Buzzkill PAC, Our Destiny PAC, Politico
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NYT, WSJ Handicap The 2012 Election
Somebody please get the Wall Street Journal’s Dorothy Rabinowitz and the New York Times’s Nate Silver into the same room. In Wednesday’s Journal, Rabinowitz makes a compelling case for Newt Gingrich as a viable alternative to Mitt Romney in the … Continue reading
