Signs point to the Republican establishment, such as it is, coalescing around Mitt Romney as the only adult in the race. While he’s an improvement over Cain, Bachmann, and the rest of that cast of clowns, I don’t care for Romney and his coreless pandering to right wing extremists, and I have an irrational aversion to his admittedly handsome face. It looks like a missionary’s face; the face of Western white male imperialist power. Be that as it may, the Democratic party has moved so far to the right that Romney’s opinions, even on his worst days, are comparable to Obama’s. And I think he can locate Pakistan on the map.
But why is the media paying no attention to Jon Huntsman, the other squeaky-clean Mormon, who is equivalently experienced, professional and intelligent? Unlike Romney, Huntsman refuses to pander to the nether regions of his party. Every time he speaks he sounds eminently reasonable. He doesn’t bash Obama’s emasculated health care plan as a socialist takeover. He believes in global warming (“why not trust the scientists?” he asks). Very unlike Romney, he opposes our military adventures in Iraq, Afghanistan, and wherever’s next (Iran, anyone?). Huntsman is gaining no traction in the polls, but neither is he getting any publicity whatsoever. You can’t tell me there isn’t a connection between the two. A casual follower of the primary season would hardly know Huntsman is running.
Why have the media made the decision to declare Huntsman irrelevant? Is he just too reasonable? Does reasonableness not make enough headlines?
the other white meat
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