Comments about ‘Huntsman boycotts Nevada debate in protest of date’

"That's pressured New Hampshire to move up its own presidential primary, which is supposed to be the first in the nation."

Wow, who says they have to be first? Sounds like elementary school when some kids want to be the line leader.

Jon Huntsman is boycotting next week's Republican presidential debate in Nevada. Why is that, is his harley in the shop?. Or was it, these 2 Republican presidential hopefuls are trying to push Nevada into pulling back on its mid-January caucus date, siding with New Hampshire in its showdown with other states over scheduling early primaries and caucuses. Or perhaps, it's never good when you have to come into the spin room after a debate as your own surrogate. It's the political equivalent of wearing a bell to warn people away from you. However, Jon Huntsman stood like a wimp after a debate in which he was little more than an afterthought. However, right at the beginning of the gaggle, he broached an issue that hadn't come up. "I am disappointed," he said, "that, in a debate about the economy, we didn't even confront the issue of too-big-to-fail. Now, up until the sleeping bags began to bloom in the cities, the standard Republican position on the forces that crashed the economy was to blame Barney Frank, and lazy overextended poor people, and a 30-year old banking law. In fact, that dead horse took another beating.

He is a non-factor in the race, no big deal, it only hurt his already limited exposure.

Sounded like a cheap-shot attack on Romney yesterday...Huntsman's got to be getting desperate.

Herman Cain says that "stupid people are ruining America,"

Its all over. The Republicans are going with Cain. Prima faccie evidence of his own statement above.

Nobody cares if Huntsman boycotts the debate, he's irrelevant anyway, will go nowhere, and I would have trouble voting for him if he was the GOP nominee. He's in the wrong party.

In Mr. Huntsman's case, I don't think it's going to make much of a difference.

I may boycott that debate as well.

I don't know.....This decision may prove to be his downfall.

........but it may open a huge door for Ron Paul.

No one will even notice that he isn't there.

Jonathan, Ron Paul is already well ahead of Huntsman with a much more passionate following. I don't think Huntsman will affect him at all.

Don't know what Huntsman feels he stands to gain by taking sides in this argument between state party organizations, or by staying in the race at all for that matter. Maybe he feels he will ingratiate himself to New Hampshirites and help his cause there. But at what cost?

Wish him well all the same.

I would not be surprised if in 2016 the aforementioned Mr Huntsman ran as a Democrat.

Maybe Gary Johnson can take his place and gain some real traction.