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Flap’s Links and Comments for May 19th on 07:16

These are my links for May 19th from 07:16 to 08:31:

  • Iowa Straw Poll Could Offer Another Glimpse of Daniels’ Presidential Leanings – The Republican Party of Iowa holds its first meeting to discuss ground rules for the closely-watched Ames Straw Poll in August. Even potential campaigns have been invited to send representatives, but the Iowa party hasn't said whether Daniels is doing so.

    A Daniels delegation might be the clearest sign yet the Indiana governor plans to run. But Southern Illinois University's David Yepsen. who covered seven presidential campaigns for the Des Moines Register, says it's not critical that members of his team attend.

    "I don't think they need to have an operative there, because there'll be so many people who do have people there," Yepsen says." There is a past tradition and practices; even if Mitch Daniels doesn't have someone in the room, anything that protects the integrity of the process would be something that would benefit him."

    A more significant deadline is July 23. That's when the Iowa G-O-P will finalize the ballot for the August 13 straw poll.

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    Read it all.

    Yeah, but I wouldn't expect anyone from the Daniels camp to be there.

  • Moderate Jon Huntsman, possible 2012 candidate, tests the waters in today’s GOP – At issue is Huntsman’s support for Obama’s economic stimulus package, which he said wasn’t large enough; for the Wall Street bailout; and for cap-and-trade climate legislation, which he has since backed away from, saying recently that it is a flawed approach.

    “He’s going to have to answer policy questions, and that’s a bigger challenge, but there is plenty of room in New Hampshire for another candidate,” said Fergus Cullen, former chairman of the Republican Party in the Granite State. “All of the candidates are putting their energy and focus into the so-called tea party activists, and nobody is campaigning for the broad mainstream of primary voters.”

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    Puff piece profile of Jon Huntsman who really is running for the future and not 2012.

  • Who will be the John McCain of 2012? – Jon Huntsman: There is only one candidate in today’s prospective Republican field with the record, rhetoric, and staff to be the 2012 John McCain. That is former-Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman.

    Not only has Huntsman served as President Obama’s ambassador to China, he also has also supported cap and trade, Obama’s economic stimulus, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and same-sex marriage civil unions.

    He’s been endorsed by no less a far-left liberal than former-President Jimmy Carter, and he has called Obama “a remarkable leader” who provides a “brilliant analysis of world events.”

    Like clockwork, the media elite are doing their part. Time Magazine has an article this week titled: “Jon Huntsman: The Potential Republican Presidential Candidate Democrats Most Fear.”

    No they don’t. Democrats would love a Huntsman run. But the story line is an old favorite of former-McCain strategist and current-Huntsman aid John Weaver. It is the same story he planted numerous time during the 2000 primary campaign.

    Weaver is not the only McCain veteran on Huntsman’s staff. Longtime Weaver ally and television ad consultant Fred Davis, communications adviser Matt David, spokesman Tim Miller, and media buyer Kyle Roberts are also McCain alums now working for Huntsman.

    President Ronald Reagan said “personnel is policy.” That makes Huntsman the 2012 McCain winner hands down.

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    Yeah not Mitch Daniels but Huntsman.

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