In his first major television interview of his likely presidential campaign rollout this morning, former Utah Gov. and Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman avoided his own Newt Gingrich moment. The House Republican plan to privatize Medicare? Count Huntsman in.
"I would've voted for it," he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos Friday morning. "Including the Medicare provisions."
Nice knowing ya, Jon. Not only are you toast for 2012 (we knew that anyway), but any hope you had to run and win in 2016 (which even I believed), just went up in smoke.
When will these people learn?? (And by "these people, I mean Richard Lugar, Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, John McCain, Claire McCaskill) A Tiger not only cannot, but should not change his or her stripes. The people elected you for a reason, and these last minute personality reconfigurations to please a narrow constituency are a consistently losing strategy.
