How can somebody who speaks fluent Mandarin be so dumb?
That's what we cats want to know after we ran across Jon Huntsman's latest goof. Responding to questions about shuttering his Orlando campaign headquarters and moving it lock, stock and barrel to New Hampshire, the former Utah guv tried to spin it as a real grassy-rootsy kind of move. The Granite State, he said, "is a market where the old Adlai Stevenson shoe leather is important."
We cats can just hear all those Republican primary voters going, "WTF?"
Huntsman may be able to chit-chat in Chinese, but he hasn't exactly mastered his own party's language. Of course, this recent cultural reference isn't quite as painful and awkward as his Kurt Cobain "joke," because it wasn't made in front of a stony-faced debate audience. But if the Cobain line was a pathetic attempt to appeal to the GOP youth vote, we doubt that more than three young Republicans in the entire country know 1) who Adlai Stevenson was, and 2) why his name is associated with shoe leather. (See above.)
Somebody also should tell Huntsman that the teabaggers are in charge, and the way to their hearts is probably not to invoke the name of the Democratic sacrificial lamb whom Eisenhower twice slaughtered at the polls. Heck, they think Ike was a socialist anyway.
Yep, we cats still think Huntsman is cute. But the way things are going, his campaign will end up a surefire case of Jonny, we hardly knew ye.
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