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brooklynite

(96,882 posts) Mon Jan 9, 2012, 02:23 PM Jan 2012

Huntsman: Romney ‘Completely Out of Touch’ [View all]

ABC News:

Jon Huntsman is finally attracting big crowds and taking the fight to Mitt Romney.

I just interviewed him after a raucous campaign stop in Concord, N.H. He told me Romney’s “I like to fire people” comment shows he is “completely out of touch” with what’s going on the country. “I don’t like to fire people, I like to create jobs,” Huntsman said.

He has never been so harshly critical of Romney. A top Huntsman aide added: Romney “will rue the day he said that.”

The Huntsman crowds are bigger and more enthusiastic than ever and he obviously feels a momentum change. “We need to prove we can move the market here,” Huntsman said.

Saturday morning, I saw Huntsman at a Senior Center with at most 100 people; amazing what 24 hours can do...

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Huntsman: Romney ‘Completely Out of Touch’ [View all] brooklynite Jan 2012 OP

Good to see this, good for our democracy, elleng Jan 2012 #1

Anything is possilbe..probably not, but who knows for sure???nt Stuart G Jan 2012 #2

True, but my guess is he hopscotches to Florida... brooklynite Jan 2012 #3

You're probably right; elleng Jan 2012 #4

The big players here in central Fl Mojorabbit Jan 2012 #7

I'm not sure how retired Florida Republicans will like Common Sense Party Jan 2012 #5

If they were rational and wealthy elleng Jan 2012 #10

This message was self-deleted by its author SaintPete Jan 2012 #11

He's right, as opposed to himself who is only mostly out of touch. Liberal Veteran Jan 2012 #6

DUzy great. grantcart Jan 2012 #9

I agree with Huntsman, Romney is a corporate supremacist Uncle Joe Jan 2012 #8

Huntsman v. Obama bigworld Jan 2012 #12

Oh yes he is. He is trying to appear more reasonable as a campaign tactic. totodeinhere Jan 2012 #17

Yes, just as bad. No, not crazy. OrwellwasRight Jan 2012 #20

honestly, these days there's no other kind of repuke but crazy ones Skittles Jan 2012 #23

Took these fools this long to start Thrill Jan 2012 #13

The old Republican Bait-'n-switch. Wondering how their nutcase base is going to take this. patrice Jan 2012 #14

As far as I am concerned though not a single one of them has shown themselves to be cstanleytech Jan 2012 #15

Yep! That's pretty clear, so they'll have to do something like graft Christie onto Huntsman in order patrice Jan 2012 #16

They can graft whatever or whoever they want but grafting a piece of shit onto another piece cstanleytech Jan 2012 #18

So he's playing for a distant second fujiyama Jan 2012 #19

Huntsman might have a chance, but it's not up to him DFW Jan 2012 #21

I agree. A small cadre of kingmakers will decide the nominee by manipulating the LibDemAlways Jan 2012 #24

Orsino: Huntsman 'only mostly out of touch' n/t Orsino Jan 2012 #22

He's still a Repub XanaDUer Jan 2012 #25