Sigh. We cats thought we'd have to write off our crush on Jon Huntsman when, like the rest of the Republican clown college that debated in Iowa this month, he foolishly raised his hand on the "I would not accept a 10-to-one deficit deal" question.
How, we thought, could we still feel ankle-rubby about Huntsman when he displayed such teabagger intransigence? It's impossible to like anybody who would walk away from 10 parts spending cuts to one part tax increases.
But now, he's gone all sensible on us. "I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming," he recently tweeted. "Call me crazy."
We're sure the nutjobs over at Free Republic are calling Jon Huntsman a lot worse than that. So sure, in fact, that we don't even need to check. (Sometimes we just don't feel like indulging in their particular brand of insanity, you know?) But anyway, okay — Huntsman's sudden attack of reasonableness means that maybe we can fantasize about sitting in his lap once more.
The sad thing about all this? That the Republicans have gone so far off the rightward cliff that one of their more plausible candidates will be rejected by a huge chunk of their party for speaking the simple, scientific truth.
That is, the Huntsman campaign doesn't succumb to its fumbles and defections first.
(PHOTO: Esquire magazine)
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