Like former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s uninspired presidential bid, the 2012 campaign of former Utah governor and U.S. ambassador John Huntsman simply isn’t catching fire.
The moderate Republican – who recently blamed his failure to launch on the “dog days of summer” – may be dealing with more than just a “momentum problem,” though.
According to The Politico, Huntsman’s campaign organization is in complete disarray – “disorganized and full of staff tension.” In fact an exclusive report published by the website details a high-level feud between two of Huntsman’s key advisors – John Weaver and David Fischer – that reads more like a Real Housewives episode than the inner workings of a credible presidential bid.
To read the report click here … although we’ll warn you, both of these “men” repeatedly flash their vaginas throughout the piece. In fact, were it not for all the political references you might think you were reading Teen Vogue.
Seriously … if this is how Jon Huntsman runs a campaign organization, we’d hate to see how he manages a country.
Pic: via Daylife
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By Andy August 4, 2011 at 10:44 am
He’s using Newt Gingrich’s playbook. I don’t feel badly for the guy, though, with what he’s got at home.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a7me02owzw
By BigT August 4, 2011 at 11:11 am
Funny: The only site to EVER report his candidacy is also the only site to report its DEMISE…
Does the ‘Tree Falling’ analogy work here???
By Luckenbach Texas August 4, 2011 at 11:19 am
Big T,
I saw your mom last night and she says hi.
By BigT August 4, 2011 at 11:29 am
Luckenbach: I’m guessing you’re Hunstsman’s campaign manager..Or should I say you WERE Hunstsman’s Campaign manager…
Maybe you can get on w/ Obama’s re-election campaign now…That ride will be a lot longer before it implodes…
By vicupstate August 4, 2011 at 12:52 pm
If the GOP had a decent candidate in the stable, Obama would be in real trouble. Fortunately, they don’t, so Obama has a genuine chance to be re-elected.
By CoolAireHeights August 4, 2011 at 3:04 pm
Vicupstate, though I can’t, I’d so love to wager you on this. Romney, Perry, or Pawlenty will take him out…. and guess what?, one of them is going to be the GOP nominee. Thus, your boy is going bye- bye in 2012. Bank on it! Have you checked your boy’s economy lately?
By vicupstate August 4, 2011 at 3:26 pm
CoolAireHeights,
I guess you missed the report on Pawlenty pulling all his ads in Iowa. Or the one about Perry’s right-wing Jeremiah Wright problem. Or Perry’s backtracking on States Rights so he can kow-tow to the Tea Party. Perry is already starting to look like the flavor of the month, just like Huntsman did a 1.5 months ago.
Romney has the best shot, but not if the Tea party has a say in the matter, which they do.
The biggest thing holding the economy back is gas prices. If the price at the pump falls back to 2.75 or so, Obama wins it.
By BigT August 4, 2011 at 4:02 pm
Vic: How is it that Obama got elected WITH Jeremiah Wright, but Perry can’t?
Are you so much of a leftwing, idiot Racist, Hypocrite that you are saying it’s OK for a liberal imbecile to to have Jeremiah Wright, but some phantom problem you clueless dolts are trying to manufacture will Doom Perry???
Face it: ANYTHING and ANYBODY beats Obama. He is a Total Failure…And this time his Track Record will sink him.
Perry’s resume will actually put him in office, two terms, I’d predict.
By vicupstate August 4, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Let me expalin it to you this way Big T:
Democrats and thinking independents realized the Jeremiah Wright comments were HIS OWN, and were not spoken NOR endorsed by Obama himself. The people that bought that line of thinking, were not going to vote for Obama to start with, and he could win WITHOUT them.
Republicans however, believe in guilt by association. Therefore they will not accept Perry, WHO SUPPORT HE MUST HAVE IN ORDER TO WIN the nomination.
By BigT August 4, 2011 at 6:34 pm
Jeremiah Wright is a Racist, America-Hating BIGOT.
Obama, and Shelly, sat in his church 20 years and Worsiped the man….
Now abandon your liberal-induced Ignorance, and Tell me what Obama is???…
By CoolAireHeights August 4, 2011 at 7:24 pm
Vicupsate, Yo-mama’s racist rants in his mid-1990′s book – that leftist losers like you ignored – were HIS and all I needed to know about the future sh!thead-in-chief. Since you ignored them, you own this a$$hole president now… or should I say, he owns you.
By vicupstate August 4, 2011 at 9:34 pm
So people go to church NOT to worship God but to worship the preacher?
Big T, do you have any proof that Obama was actually in attendance when Wright made his 9/11 comments?
CoolAireHeights, please keep beating that Muslim/Kenyan born/racist drum. It helps prove the case to independents just how nutty the right wing really is. That’s a key element to Obama’s re-election. He might not be perfect, but what is the alternative, a right wing nut like Bachman/Palin/Perry?
By CoolAireHeights August 4, 2011 at 10:31 pm
My friend, good luck trying to marginalize me and the hundreds of millions like me. Everyday, more and more Americans wake up to the con that is Obama and his post-racial and post-partisan BS… these people, aggravated that they were conned in 2008, won’t be happy being discounted/written off by jokers like you… and particularly, when trying to survive a lingering crappy economy. Yeah, it’s sad that they were duped in 2008 (or were they?; could they not simply have been protesting George Bush’s extreme level of Neoconservatism, Nation Building, and RINOism by staying home?) but one thing’s for sure, YOUR worthless dipsh!t is going down in 2012.
By south mauldin August 4, 2011 at 10:32 pm
Guess that endorsement by Warren Jeffs didnt carry the weight he thought it would.
By 2012 August 5, 2011 at 7:23 am
Huntsman is so unappealing for many reasons. What I don’t understand about South Carolina is why so many political groupies jump on the bandwagon of someone they have no clue about just because it appears to be the cool thing to do in their geeky worlds. SC may very well be the only state besides Utah that has any Huntsman supporters or organization. It’s hard to understand why.
By Broseph Stalin August 5, 2011 at 10:41 am
@ 2012:
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Huntsman is a total joke. He is pretty much running to be Secretary of State if any GOP president is elected.