Sorry PigHunter, this is the first I've seen this thread.
I rather liked his position on breaking up big oil ala Ma Bell and Standard Oil of Teddy's time. Also thought he had usefull insights into the China issue...trade, patent theft, industrial espionage, etc.
Of course he never had a chance mainly because of his moderately centrist social ideas...that and he actually believes in science.

I don't know what you mean by "what is wrong with the GOP in the Rockies" The guy is incredibly well versed on economics, and can sell good economics. He has had some socially unexeptable positions within the party, and viewed as a liberal. In the first two state primaries the hoski's and the rats could cross over and vote for a GOP candidate...lousy but that is what is allowed. 51% of those that voted for Huntsman said they were very happy with Obama as President....tells you who 1/2 the folks were that voted for Huntsman. And for those that always wondered what someone meant by "I am socailly a liberal, but fiscally conservative"...means I am a socialist, that will protect my money, and spend it how I want to spend it, and vote for others to pay for my social agenda.

Good analysis by some of the very best analyzers on Fox just a bit ago. Huntsman ran a very bad campaign was the killer. Huntsman never was anthusiastic like he wanted to be President like Romney is. Third in New Hampshire was a killer...should have dropped out, and never gone on to SC.

Not to worry, Rat. I'm not voting for Mitt either! LOL

I supported Huntsman and thought he was the right guy; however, he decided to drop out and back Romney. I don't know for sure this is just my thought, but he probably thought he couldn't come ahead and decided to drop out and back Romney so he can become vice president if Romney is elected. I thought he could have won nomination he was #3 in the poles. I now back Perry because Ron Paul doesn't know crap, Newt and Santorum are sleazes and Romney is a looser who just likes to tell you what you want to hear. I don't see a leader in Romney. Rick Perry said that he would not quit and even though he's in last at 7% according to the news he is still full swing into his campaign. He seems more honest and a lot less bull shitty than the other nominees. I sure hope he wins the S.C. primary and he is probably the only capable of handling our foreign policy and affairs.

When Obama has 46,000,000 folks on food stamps why wouldn't every state be running deficits? Incredible any state can balance the books. Huge increase in poverty, the rich vs. poor gap greatly increased during Obama when he spent $1,000,000,000,000 tax payer dollars saying it would benfit those that need it the most. And the fact we pulled out of Iran was a monumental screw up by the Obama Administration. Let's hope your point on that one will be debated in the campaign ahead. Perry gets rave revues on his states rights vs. the Obama Administration taking their rights away from them...like you can't have Boeing move a plant to SC just because it is a right to work state.

Robertjlb33 I have to admit I too think Perry would make a great nominee for the Republican Party.

The article about Rick Perry calling Turkey's leaders Islamic terrorists admits the prime minister of Turkey is an "enabler" of Islamic terrorist. If he is allowing the actions of terrorist he mine as well be one himself. Regardless I guess it doesn't really matter now anyways, Perry decided to drop out and is now supporting Gingrich? I definitely don't agree with him there.

Totally a far leftist view Ron Paul has, and yes, he does want to legalize other hard drugs as well. He's for easy access believing you can not legislate morality, and, there would be far less drug related violent crimes. Crazy view, and another reason why he will not be picked as the nominee besides his views on national defense.

It's one of those deals where...if enough people do it let's go ahead and condone it, legalize it. The truth is there are a lot of violent crimes committed because of drugs, and most hard drug users started with marajuana use. Totally unexceptable from a conservatives view point. Fine with most valueless liberals.

Robertjlb33,
Perry handle our foreign affairs?
I hope you were kidding.
He's flatly stated he'd put our troops back in Iraq to be targets for both sides of their coming civil war. And just the other day he labeled one of our allies (Turkey) as Islamic terrorists.
The guy don't know diddly about foreign policy.
Not to mention his administration in Texas has continually run $10 billion in the red, has the highest percentage of uninsured workers, and the highest percentage of minimun pay jobs in the nation.

Robertjlb33,
Here's Perry concerning Turkey.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=perry%20calls%20turkey&source=web...

Here's his comments on Iraq during the ABC Republican debate
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=perry%20syas%20he%27d%20go%20back...

Let's clear something up about osama bin laden and being in the middle east.
In the first place, the only reason our troops were there was to track down Bin Laden and his al queda followers. A cursory search of history will show we had a very small contingent of forces in Afghanistan and along with Afghan allies we had Bin Laden totally surrounded and were annihilating them piecemeal when Bush decided to call the dogs off and invade Iraq...thereby allowing Bin Laden to waltz into Pakistan.
As for the killing of that POS, most of the muckety mucks at the Pentagon wanted to take out Bin Laden's compound via missle strike. Most likely it would have succeeded, but then we'd never know if Bin Laden was indeed dead.
BTW, do a little search as to the rest of the world's opinion of our President's action concerning the killing of Bin Laden...you'll find nothing but accolades.

Bush couldn't find his behind using two hands.