Huntsman can formulate independent thought. Therefore, he’s not a Sarah Palin/base Republican.

Hey Gregory . Are you an Obama/Trumka/Soros/Alinsky/Daley/Flynt/ liberal nutcase ?

No need to answer , Howdy .

Stop the charade MSM, nobody cares about Huntsman.

David Gregory is an idiot – no ifs, ands, or buts.  And to think, didn’t this board just make fun of Perry for quoting something that wasn’t real and yet gives Gregory a pass on quoting the Onion?

“I was asked to do it and I did as told.””

Exactly.   Speaking highly of that dingbat is a chore. A burden to be borne.

Dave, are you an Al Sharpton anchor?

NBC and Mediaite, nice try on your attempt to use Huntsman to marginalize Sarah Palin.

It’s nice that Huntsman, as a Republican, is so willing to speak out.  Bravery like that will speed up the slow motion dissolution of the right coalition.  

OMG George Soros!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To BFD , all women are wh@res , b@tches and harpies , which is why he and Robert avoid them .

Fact: A vote for Huntsman is a waste!!!!

She’s been marginalized for a long time.

You miss the point. David Gregory is asking, in essence, “Does this satirical piece actually reflect something of your real situation?”. He didn’t say, “You were quoted in the Onion as saying “. 

Sarah Palin needs no assistance in marginalizing herself.

Maybe if Gregory used smaller words and shorter sentences you’d be able to keep up.

Poor David, he and all the other loser libs want Huntsman to be the nominee.

So you must be excited about Mitt?  The more I look at this field the more that Huntsman makes sense to me….  Who do you see emerging out of the field that will carry the general election? 

Mr. Gregory are you a Barack Obama Democrat?

While I’m not excited about Mitt(ens)… I’m resolved that he will take the nomination, win the “middle” and have a strong Congress, including Senate gains to keep him on track.

Huntsman gave the nomination speech for Palin because he “did what he was told”??????  Does not sound like he has the strength and bravura to be President……save your money and go home, please!

All women???????? You should slap yourself with your own gloves, Donahue!  There is no room for misogyny here!

Win the middle? With what? He has been drifting further and further right to pander to the Tea Party. Mitt isn’t even sure what Mitt believes on any given day. Your middle is going to go with Obama, and yes, we will vote out any and all GOP obstructionists and have a strong Congress so we can put America back to work, instead of listening to any more years of “NO! The GOP will not do that” to any and everything put forward by a Democrat…even their own ideas. The GOP is lost, and Mitt is not going to find them anytime soon.

So why did he do it? If the PARTY can boss him around, what chance do regular Americans have with him in a leadership role?

To give an introduction or not isn’t a Presidential caliber decision. It’s a Party formality and nothing more.

Nancy Pelosi would be so proud of you !1!

Fox News Contributors, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Mike Huckabee and the GOP Candidates are all White Collar Criminals aiding and abiding fraudulent activities by reporting – No Truths and still on the air. They should be subject to Dan Rather’s Fate as News Caster.  We wonder how much FCC has been paid, to stay on the air.  These are the FACES that should be undergoing Drug Test and Psychological Evaluations,…. Test for Competency, since they are VOTING ON BILLS and WRITING BILLS.Fox News reported that Post Office and Social Security were losing money like Wall Street, which was false.  Post Offices’ DAILY Postage Sales bring in at least 1 million dollars in each 50 States which equals 50 million dollars.  They knew Wall Street was crashing, that why they passed the Post Office Retirement Legislation in 2006 because that the only department that can bear the burden.
 
Along with Automatic Payroll Deductions FICA for Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare bring in monthly: at least 1 trillion dollars from each 50 states, which equals to 50 trillion dollars a month.  
 
This steady Monetary Intake is not Entitlement, It’s a Trust Fund,…. This Trust Fund is what the Republican Senators and House of Representatives are diverting to Defense Budget.  To avoid any Improvement of their Campaign contributors- the Fortune 500s and their Relatives are Defense Contractors, operating NON-PROFIT Organizations (Nursing Homes, Group Homes, Home Healthcare Outlets)Republicans and Fox News are promulgating economic Armageddon, while  living high on the Hogs without any HUMILITY or any remorse on ROBBING THE POOR TO FEED THE RICH.  Since 2008, every sitting Congressional Representatives – 100 Senate and 435 House of US House of Representatives’ personal wealth have increased 25%, sharing combined GRAND TOTAL: 2.04 BILLION DOLLARS (Kickbacks?).

Moron says what?

How’s the hopey changey thing working out for ya?

How are all those SarahPAC contributions you made working our for ya?  … “ If so, can you send your best, one-time gift to SarahPAC today to help her elect more common-sense conservatives - and show her that we support her if she decides to run?”

I’m good, actually. It could be better, but in the face of Republican obstructionism, President Obama has accomplished much in his first term. See you at the ballot box, friend.

Gregory should work for The Onion.  He’s not someone to be taken seriously.  

Funny, Huntsman says he was the only one who actually ‘knew her’ from the Governor’s association? Sarah whackjob Palin quit her one and only term, governing NOT being her focus!. How much do you know her Jon?

Tell that to the 50+ candidates she helped get elected in 2010.

It’s not obstructionism Ken, the Republicans didn’t hold a majority from 2006 to 2010. The problem you’re having is realizing that there a few Democrats with a conscience who won’t vote for his crap either.

Well, next year they can go commiserate in the Loser’s Lounge with Christine O’Donnell and Sharon Angle. Many will be gone, mark my words.

. . . as opposed to an ideologically pure one with little chance of winning a general election.

What’s this that’s being pushed?  And ideological pure candidate won just 3 years ago.

Exclusive of Ron Paul, there isn’t really an ideologically pure candidate on the right.  There’s insider and somewhat less so.  Cain, for one, went as far off the reservation as to support Steve Forbes in 2000.

Obama’s numbers are horrible these days, and nothing on the horizon looks promising insofar as the economy is concerned.  Republicans should not feel constrained to put forward a candidate who meets with glowing approval of mainstream media – especially in consideration that that institution is openly hostile to conservatism (The Onion piece was only reference material for David Gregory) – allied with establishment party elites and stop trying to pick off Massachusetts as core election strategy.  When it comes down to it, no matter who is selected the press is going to be in the bag for Obama; whatever points RINO leadership thinks to win in currying favor with them is bound to have no value.  The candidates with whom the mainstream is most comfortable compete best in states bound to be blue in the end.

Such was it with McCain, with the country resoundingly showing the flaw in such an approach.  No knock on Huntsman, but had he been the VP instead of Palin, McCain would have been beaten by 20 points.

I don’t really understand how people don’t see a winner when they look at Huntsman. He has moderate policies that lean to the conservative side (in the traditional meaning of the word). He has executive experience, both in public office and the private sector, and was highly successful in both. He has considerable diplomatic experience. He has demonstrated his willingness and ability to work across party lines. He has dealt with healthcare reform and tax reform as governor, both of which were successful.

Moreover, he’s also conducted himself with a good deal more grace during this primary season than the other Republican candidates, and has been more upfront about the realities of being president; I find Huntsman’s refusal to make pledges far more appealling than promising the citizens the moon and stars in an attempt to get their vote. Not only does it set a more honest tone for his campaign, but it also displays a greater understanding of the presidency and its role in government. The president simply can’t do everything, and it’s naive and detrimental to the country to expect them to be able to.

Our country needs unity and stability more than anything else right now. As a moderate myself, I fully expect Congress to swing back to the DNC this election cycle, and I would prefer a more moderate executive to work with them. When one ideology holds the power, the nation tends to massive swings between the left and the right that are counter-productive. Hunstman is uniquely positioned to bring America together again like no other candidate is. In addition, the Republican party, for a long time the “conservative” party, has been drifting away from a responsible, truly conservative ideology towards anti-liberal rhetoric and bigger government designed to “protect conservative ideals” that have little to do with conservation and more to do with traditional cultural mores.

Huntsman is the kind of Republican candidate I want, and indicative of the kind of Republican party I want in America. The more mainstream attention he gets, the better, for it is during these primaries that we the voters help define the parties in our country. I don’t expect him to win; that would be foolish. He doesn’t have the name recognition to pull it off. But I’d consider it a win if his candidacy can help reel in the fringes of the GOP and bring the party back to truly conservative values of fiscal responsibility (please note, spending the money in the military instead of health care is not more fiscally responsible. It’s the same thing) and personal responsibility (also please note, defining what is and isn’t marriage is just as much a policy of the dreaded nanny state as telling your citizens what they can and can’t consume). Huntsman can help the GOP get its head back on straight, and I think everyone- democrat, republican, and independent- would benefit from that.

The people from the  state of Utah were happy to see Huntsman go!

And, like a good Republican, he did what he was told. So much for independent thought.

I’m a Palin Republican. Perry/Palin 2012. That’s the ticket for America.

David is an Obama democrat – there is no keeping up with the kind of lies one has to spew in order to be an Obama democrat.  Gregory stinks up MTP with his outrageous bias.

According to Tina, anyone who says anything opposite of what she believes is a “lie”.  Tina seems to be severely limited in her ability to provide logical and intelligent replies to other commenters.  But, she still provides comical relief to the discussion.  

Presumably something similar to that.

Tina is your average Mediaite cess pool comment section conservatroll

David is a puppet for the airhead in the white house. Has to be because without the media playing the biggest scam on America ie airhead Obama this nation wouldn’t be in such a destructive mode. However our major problem are the dumbed down Americans that fell for it!

Well we know that all the money you donated to the airhead in the white house sure went to waste. Might as well have flash it down the toilet because thats where he has taken this nation. DOWN THE POOPER!

It will be a Republican senate, republican congress and republican White House. You still might be falling for what the media is feeding you, kinda like when they got you to believe that Obama had a brain. Get your tissue ready because you’re going to need it!

Gregory has daily meeting with the White House, along with Stenopoluas on how to promote airhead Obama and how to sabotage all republicans. Still trying to get people to believe that Obama has a brain.

Wow, put down the koolaid!

I agree that it is a danger but Romney’s economic plan is firmly centered in the middle class.  There is no doubt that the usual suspects in the party would have all of the candidates carrying clubs and wearing bearskins if they could.

So true…so true.

Amazing the opportunity Sarah Palin threw away.  If she had just listened to the “establishment” in early 2009, she would easily be the overwhelming front runner right now.  Krauthammer and the gang gave her good advice and she blew them off, and here she is, not even on the radar.  Weird thing is the anti-establishment rigmarole continues to be a favorite theme among the far right.  They don’t listen to the expert’s opinions, they fail, and then blame the experts.  Ridiculous.

Then I simply MUST ask….Which Republican candidate does your crystal ball say will win the White House?

Huntsman almost won me over when he name-dropped Emerson, Lake and Palmer in an interview with Piers Morgan. Well, that and the fact he’s not certifiably loony like most of the other Republican contenders as you stated quite well. I consider myself a left-leaning Centrist for the most part and have always trusted in the swing of the political pendulum to keep things aright. These days, not so much though.

You’re kidding right.  With McCain making decisions like picking Palin as his running mate scares me more than anything Obama could possibly do.  Just think if the old man had died and left us with Sarah Palin as President.  If they were elected, Canada would then have had an immigrant problem far worse then the U.S. 

Huntsman is now showing us his embarrassment for introducing Sarah Palin to the world, and he has every right to be embarrassed.  

Uh… he left office with an approval rating over 80%.

Would lose by double digits in the general election.

“are you a palin republican?” is the same thing as asking, “are you stupid?”

Sounded like Huntsman had a real hard time saying what he was supposed to say. :-)
Just joking. This is a case where it is not fair to ask Huntsman what he thinks of Sarah Palin more than three years after he said she was a great choice for VP. SP had not made any of the massive mistakes she did since that speech. And, yes, she probably could slide by as VP so long as the POTUS stayed healthy. There is no real responsibility to the job of VP.
I still say Huntsman is the guy the Republicans should nominate.

Talk about a ticket to nowhere….

 So did Palin…

Mr. Gregory, is that possum on your noggin alive or dead? ‘Cause if it’s alive, Sarah might shoot it.

Well put. 

No, it’s those handful of Democrats who represent right wing districts and are too afraid to vote their consciences because they’ll lose their seats. 

Huntsman is not really all that moderate, but at least you don’t get the sense that he’s so ideologically extreme that he would drive the country off a cliff. 

But then I thought the same thing about W. and that didn’t work out so well. 

Not so much. Her poll numbers plummeted immediately after she left. 

‘Are You A Sarah Palin Republican?’ Are you kidding me?

David Gregory? “Are You a Nose In The Butt of Obama kind of Democrat?”

With the empty promise of creating jobs. Apparently the repubs think that filibustering everything the the dems try to do, defending the tax breaks for the wealthy and dismantling the EPA would create jobs. It was stupid, like Sarah and they were wrong. 

Look up filibuster. Dems can’t pass a bill with a simple majority.

What a chicken ST.  He is full of Crap.  Every Governor in the country knew who Sarah Palin was.  She doubled everyone of their approval ratings.  She Chaired the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact
Commission, Chaired the National Natural Resources Commission and was the Vice Chair of the National Governors Association.  Somehow Huntsman forgot that Sarah Palin was elected among all the other Governors in the country to be their Vice Chairman of the NGA?  How is that possible?  She was considered to have more experience than any Governor in the country on Energy matters.  She was recognized immediately by all other 50 Governors as a leader, something Huntsman was not, and Obama was not among his Senate co-workers.  How could he not know her positions on Foreign Policy when all he has to do is Google it.  Besides the fact that she had written OP-ED pieces in the NYT and Washington Post BEFORE she was chosen as VP.  I have absolutely no respect for another wimp who is afraid to challenge the MSM version of Sarah Palin.  Sarah Palin extreme?  PLEASE!!!   Name me another Governor and any politician at any level that got more votes on their legislation by the Opposition Party?  Sarah Palin was the definition of a PRAGMATIC leader.  Huntsman is not even in the same league as Sarah Palin and that was the reason he was not chosen as his VP running mate.  Republicans want to know why Conservatives want to run from their Party, because they are WIMPS that run from media scrutiny.
 

That FRINGE element you speak of within the Republican Party makes up 75% of the voting block within the Republican Party.  Conservatives have left the GOP for exactly the reason Huntsman demonstrated on Meet the DePressed.  They are wimps with a country club mentality that are afraid to get themselves dirty.  The MSM is so far LEFT that there is nothing main stream about them, yet Republicans like Huntsman kowtow to their wishes.  If you want to see how popular Sarah Palin is within the RIGHT side of the political spectrum just re-watch their Convention speeches.  Now is not the time we need to ‘work with’ Democrat Socialists.  Remove them and after we empty Washington, then we should consider compromise.

That FRINGE element you speak of within the Republican Party makes up 75% of the voting block within the Republican Party.  Conservatives have left the GOP for exactly the reason Huntsman demonstrated on Meet the DePressed.  They are wimps with a country club mentality that are afraid to get themselves dirty.  The MSM is so far LEFT that there is nothing main stream about them, yet Republicans like Huntsman kowtow to their wishes.  If you want to see how popular Sarah Palin is within the RIGHT side of the political spectrum just re-watch their Convention speeches.  Now is not the time we need to ‘work with’ Democrat Socialists.  Remove them and after we empty Washington, then we should consider compromise.

What is a MODERATE?  Someone with no IDEAS.  If you are for Centralized power, your not a moderate.  You are a Progressive/Socialist.

I heard the same about Palin, but go to Gallup and Rasmussen Polls and you will see that she still had the highest ratings of any Governor in the country when she resigned.  State what you want, it doesn’t make it true.

exGOPman,  look again dude!  She still lead all Governor’s in the country when she resigned.

Experts about what?  If Palin got in she would be leading in the polls right now.  Krauthammer thought the Republicans were lucky to get 35 Seats in 2010.  What advice did Dr. K. give Palin.  ”Study up”?  What kind of crap is that?  Newt has ‘studied up’, it sure has help his cause.  Obviously you have not listened to her speeches, interviews, her Facebook, or her Op-Ed pieces.  The MSM has created this narrative on Palin, that is just BS, and a guy like Huntsman is just another “Elite” who nobody respects.

AND all the so called geniuses are leading us so well? 

Not a chance.  I would vote for Sarah Palin long before I would consider voting for another feckless Republican.  This guy couldn’t draw 100 people to hear him speak.  Get a grip, there is a reason Sarah Palin draws thousands.   Her supporters are no taken in by the nonsense that is spewed here nor they nonsense that the MSM has to say about her. 

Well they did both quit their jobs as Governor. So there’s that.

They are experts in politics. The problem with you guys is you have no humility. When you need some plumbing done, you call a plumber, same with any other trade. When you need political advice, you call in the experts in that field. Palin’s negatives are off the chart, and is why she can not win a presidential election. If she had been listening to the free advice instead of being a know it all, she would be in the catbird seat. Granted, she was already being difficult even back during the 2008 election. She has had the wrong attitude from the start, and that’s why she is pretty much a has been.

Get a grip? Sarah is out. Gone. Forget her.
Huntsman will be sitting pretty in 2016. It is the Republican standard. Nobody wins the Republican nomination the first time they run. They all have to have at least one practice run.

Wouldn’t “Centralized power” be an idea?
How does moderate translate to Progressive/Socialist in your dictionary?

Yeah!!! AND PICKING PALIN LED TO.. oh, I’m sorry I got caught up in your fantasy.

CLASSIC!! I like both comments. The first one.. ARE YOU A SARAH PALIN PAUL REVERE WARNED THE BRITISH QUIT MY JOB TO MAKE REALITY TV MONEY SLIGHTLY INSANE SUPER LEADER OF ONE OF THE MOST UNPOPULATED STATES IN THE UNION… or
are you a NOSE IN THE BUTT of the NEXT president of the USA.. ROFL.. keep it up y’all… 2012 gets closer by the second and there is STILL no one worthy of taking the throne from OBIE.. I wish I could say YAY.. but. I cant.. so, here we go.. 

Thousands show up at hiphop/country and pop concerts and to hear Obama speak too (when he was running and now as well).. Is that the requisite benchmark for leadership, abject celebrity? I think the answer to my question is easy.. HELL NO..

Its really hard to teach the stupid. Even harder to lead them.

Your succinctness reveals your ignorance and bias perfectly.

the sty, home to your thoughts, causes the slop in your mind to spill venal things. Oink, Oink.

Or, independent of thought.

That’s what Palin had abject celebrity. Now that is gone.