Another Republican Throws his Hat In - John Huntsman enters 2012 race

Anybody is better than having Obama run this Country, but I fear Jon Huntsman despite his experience and credentials is just another politician. And Herman Cain said “Politicians in Washington D.C.,...... how has that worked out for us so far?”

Plus his seeming support for some Obama programs are problematic for his conservative credentials. All in all I don't think Huntsman adds anything to the Republican Presidential candidate debates.

JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (Reuters) – Republican Jon Huntsman, the former U.S. ambassador to China , entered his party's 2012 presidential race on Tuesday pledging to make "hard decisions" to prevent America sinking into a debt disaster.

Huntsman upset the White House in April by quitting his job in Beijing to take on his former boss, President Barack Obama who appointed him in 2009.

The former governor of Utah , Huntsman, 51, is lagging in polls of Republicans but has a high profile in the media and worries the Democratic Obama administration because of his possible cross-party appeal.

Speaking, with the Statue of Liberty in the background, Huntsman pledged to turn America around.

"For the first time in our history, we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less powerful, less compassionate, less competitive and less confident than the one we got," Huntsman said. "This, ladies and gentlemen, is totally unacceptable and totally un-American," he said.

He was speaking at Liberty State Park in New Jersey , the site where former President Ronald Reagan launched his bid for the White House in 1980.

If Huntsman picks up traction in opinion polls, he could rival former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for the role of the moderate Republican candidate.

"We must make hard decisions that are necessary to avert disaster," the former Utah governor said, painting a bleak picture of the debt problem and the huge budget deficit, due to hit $1.4 trillion this fiscal year.

"If we don't, in less than a decade, every dollar of federal revenue will go to covering the costs of Medicare, Social Security and interest payments on our debt. Meanwhile, we'll sink deeper into debt for everything else - from national security to disaster relief," Huntsman said.

Huntsman paints his knowledge of China , America 's main global commercial rival and foreign lender, as a strength. But some conservative voters see his working for Obama as a liability.

Huntsman learned to speak Chinese while on a Mormon mission to Taiwan during his college years. He and his wife Mary Kaye Cooper have seven children: five biological and two adopted from China and India .

He promised to conduct his campaign "on the high road" and respect Republican rivals as well as Obama, who leads most opinion polls of the 2012 presidential race.

"I respect the president. The question each of us wants the voters to answer is who will be the better president; not who's the better American."

DEBT WOES

Congressional Republicans and Democrats are debating how to slash federal spending. But bipartisan talks have made investors worldwide jittery as they raise the specter, however small, of a debt default.

The Obama administration has warned it will run out of money to pay bills if Congress does not raise the $14.3 trillion debt limit by August 2.

Huntsman said he tackled many of the same issues in Utah and managed to keep the state's AAA credit rating.

Huntsman lacks national name recognition and many polls put his support at less than 2 percent but he left his governorship in August 2009 with sky-high approval ratings and a reputation for fiscal conservatism.

His more moderate views on social issues could make his path to winning the Republican nomination difficult. Familiarity with voters is also a problem.

A recent look by the University of New Hampshire's survey center showed Huntsman favored by only 1 percent of voters in the state, which is influential because of its early February primary. Seventy-one percent said they had not heard of him.

CATP – More Gun Lies and Garbage from Calderon

An Associated Press article on June 14th reported that 70% of arms seized in Mexico came from the U.S. This article furthers this out right lie by stating that the BATF reported 20,504 firearms out of 29,284 firearms seized were traced to the U.S. What they are not telling you is that vast amount of firearms seized that are not checked through U.S. sources because they are coming from outside the U.S., predominantly the southern Mexico border with Guatemala. Of course, the BATF brought you Operation Gunrunner, where they tacitly allowed firearms to go to Mexico to "build cases for prosecutions".

To add insult to injury, the Mexican President PinHead Felipe “I’m not responsible for Mexicans killing Mexicans” Calderon, while in a speech to the Mexican-American community in San Jose , California said this about the U.S. firearms industry:

“I accuse the U.S. Weapons industry of responsibility for the deaths of thousands of people that are occurring in Mexico . It is for profit, for the profits that it makes for the weapons industry.”

Then this idiot called for a ban on domestic sales fo assault rifles saying “You can clearly see how the violence began to grow in 2005 and of course it has gone on an upward spiral in the last six years.” implying that the U.S. firearms manufacturers and dealers have fueled this.

Hey, Felipe you frigging idiot,…how about the Mexican nationals and other mutts smuggling guns? Do they have any responsibility? Does the drug cartels and their indiscriminate violence share any blame? Just how many Americans are down south pulling triggers? You, my scumbag neighbor, have way too much to do in Mexico to curb violence, to reduce corruption, to degrade the drug cartels before you go throwing bull crap our way.

Michelle Bachmann - Presidential Candidate

Michelle Bachmann (R-MN), a sitting Congresswoman is now running for the 2012 Republican Presidential Nomination. Although I real like what I hear out of Herman Cain – the HurriCain,.... Michelle Bachmann is no slouch when it comes to fiscal and social conservative values. She is a former IRS tax lawyer and a strong Constitutionalist who has has not problems bucking the Republican Party leadership. That’s why she is a Tea Party favorite.

Bachmann was born April 6, 1956 in Waterloo, Iowa, married Marcus Bachmann, at Winona State University while both were Democrats supporting the Idiot Jimmy Carter.

Bachmann, who is an evangelical Lutheran and solidly pro-life, started in politics through disappointment with the Minnesota 's education system. She ran for the local school board in 1999, losing that election but won a seat in the Minnesota next year. Congresswoman Bachmann and her husband have fostered 23 children along with their own 5 children.

She has been a Congresswoman since 2006, being the first Republican woman to win election to Congress from Minnesota.

Bachman is certainly controversial usually through thinking out loud and it doesn’t help when there is a double standard between Republicans and Democrats, where Republicans are held to a much stricter account of what they say.

Mark our words here: Michelle Bachmann will be a force to be reckoned with, probably often directing the debate but will most probably end up on the ticket as the Vice-Presidential nominee because the perceptions about her lack of readiness or ability to come to the middle. Which is just a shame. If you look at Obama's qualifications (or extreme lack of them) for the executive office when he was running, they are in stark contrast to the exceptional and varied experience each and every Republican candidate brings to the table. But here we go again,....that double standard.