{"id":9538,"date":"2011-05-04T11:54:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T15:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9538"},"modified":"2011-05-04T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T15:54:39","slug":"carter-gives-huntsman-praise-kiss-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9538\/carter-gives-huntsman-praise-kiss-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Carter Gives Huntsman Praise, Kiss-of-Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Huntsman has the looks, money, and credentials to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0511\/54226.html \" target=\"_blank\">top-tier Republican presidential candidate<\/a> \u2013 if he can stop getting endorsements from the two most liberal presidents of the last 35 years.<\/p>\n<p>President Barack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-503544_162-20028945-503544.html \" target=\"_blank\">Obama praised Huntsman<\/a> for the latter\u2019s \u201cenormous skill, dedication and talent\u201d to the job of being Obama\u2019s ambassador to China the last two-plus years.\u00a0 In acknowledgement of Huntsman\u2019s rumored presidential campaign, his former boss said, \u201cI\u2019m sure that him having worked so well with me will be a great asset in any Republican primary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/05\/04\/carter-likes-the-idea-of-candidate-huntsman\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Carter likes<\/a> what he sees too.\u00a0 Telling <em>CNN<\/em> that Huntsman is \u201cvery attractive to me personally\u201d and an \u201cattractive\u201d candidate, Carter is giving the former Utah governor\u2019s moderate positions on social issues, immigration, and the environment a very liberal hue.<\/p>\n<p>If this keeps up, Huntsman may be tagged with the worst label for a GOP presidential contender: the kind of Republican Democrats will feel bad about voting against, but will do so anyway.<\/p>\n<p>None of which helps with the GOP base.<\/p>\n<p>After all, being Obama\u2019s former ambassador to China is already a tough sell for conservative voters.\u00a0 Getting praise from Jimmy Carter may be the kiss-of-death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Huntsman has the looks, money, and credentials to be a top-tier Republican presidential candidate \u2013 if he can stop getting endorsements from the two most liberal presidents of the last 35 years. President Barack Obama praised Huntsman for the latter\u2019s \u201cenormous skill, dedication and talent\u201d to the job of being Obama\u2019s ambassador to China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2398,143,135,2591,1768,140,2652,858],"class_list":["post-9538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-campaign","tag-barack-obama","tag-china","tag-elections","tag-endorsement","tag-jimmy-carter","tag-jon-huntsman","tag-utah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9538"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9544,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9538\/revisions\/9544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}