Kathianne
12-05-2011, 05:27 PM
Early on I wasn't impressed with him, seemed too many ties to Democratic administrations. Going to take another look as many writers that I usually agree with seem to like him. The following being the latest:
http://blog.american.com/2011/12/the-conservatism-of-jon-huntsman/
The case for Jon Huntsman’s conservatism By James Pethokoukis
<small>December 4, 2011, 5:00 pm </small>
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There’s a well-known story about a 1970s Tory party meeting where new leader Margaret Thatcher waved high a copy of Friedrich Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty before slamming it down on a table and proclaiming, “This is what we believe!” Hopefully, the stirring moment is included in the new biopic starring Meryl Streep.
(http://blog.american.com/2011/12/the-conservatism-of-jon-huntsman/huntsman1-2/)
Anyway, lots of Republicans right now would love a 2012 presidential nominee like Thatcher, one so obviously smart and passionate about the virtue and necessity of economic freedom. They don’t want only to beat Barack Obama, but also rhetorically beat and bury Obamanomics, the latest incarnation of the same wealth-distribution ideology that had infected Thatcher’s Britain back then, almost fatally.
The diplomat. Jon Huntsman clearly isn’t a candidate super comfortable with escalating the 2012 elections into a climactic clash of ideologies. He’s too cool, too diplomatic. Would rather move beyond Obama’s obvious policy failures and talk about where the nation needs to go. Focus on solutions. And Huntsman may well have never read Hayek … or Joseph Schumpeter or Thomas Sowell. If he has, he sure doesn’t talk about them...
Heavy fire. But a good amount of the flack Huntsman has taken from the Right seems more about form than function. Accepting Obama’s offer to go to Beijing. Giving a conciliatory rather than confrontational candidacy announcement speech. Mucking up the debates with too much snark and not enough talk of conservative tax and entitlement reform. Jon Huntsman (R-Davos), the darling of Manhattan magazine writers. The Republican uncomfortable with being a Republican (http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/12/04/george-f-will-between-romney-and-gingrich-the-choice-is-neither/). Yet the policies Huntsman advocates, if implemented, would usher in a conservative, free-market, small-government revolution that no Tea Party member could help but applaud. No Thatcherite or Reaganite, either.
http://blog.american.com/2011/12/the-conservatism-of-jon-huntsman/
The case for Jon Huntsman’s conservatism By James Pethokoukis
<small>December 4, 2011, 5:00 pm </small>
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There’s a well-known story about a 1970s Tory party meeting where new leader Margaret Thatcher waved high a copy of Friedrich Hayek’s The Constitution of Liberty before slamming it down on a table and proclaiming, “This is what we believe!” Hopefully, the stirring moment is included in the new biopic starring Meryl Streep.
(http://blog.american.com/2011/12/the-conservatism-of-jon-huntsman/huntsman1-2/)
Anyway, lots of Republicans right now would love a 2012 presidential nominee like Thatcher, one so obviously smart and passionate about the virtue and necessity of economic freedom. They don’t want only to beat Barack Obama, but also rhetorically beat and bury Obamanomics, the latest incarnation of the same wealth-distribution ideology that had infected Thatcher’s Britain back then, almost fatally.
The diplomat. Jon Huntsman clearly isn’t a candidate super comfortable with escalating the 2012 elections into a climactic clash of ideologies. He’s too cool, too diplomatic. Would rather move beyond Obama’s obvious policy failures and talk about where the nation needs to go. Focus on solutions. And Huntsman may well have never read Hayek … or Joseph Schumpeter or Thomas Sowell. If he has, he sure doesn’t talk about them...
Heavy fire. But a good amount of the flack Huntsman has taken from the Right seems more about form than function. Accepting Obama’s offer to go to Beijing. Giving a conciliatory rather than confrontational candidacy announcement speech. Mucking up the debates with too much snark and not enough talk of conservative tax and entitlement reform. Jon Huntsman (R-Davos), the darling of Manhattan magazine writers. The Republican uncomfortable with being a Republican (http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/12/04/george-f-will-between-romney-and-gingrich-the-choice-is-neither/). Yet the policies Huntsman advocates, if implemented, would usher in a conservative, free-market, small-government revolution that no Tea Party member could help but applaud. No Thatcherite or Reaganite, either.