I Write About Jon Huntsman
Earlier this year, I posted here about why I supported Mitch Daniels as the 2012 Republican nominee. Unfortunately, Daniels decided not to run this year.
So I set out in search of a new candidate. Mitt Romney has an alarming tendency to change his views to gather popularity, while Rick Perry doesn't seem to believe in evolution and has interfered with the investigation about whether Texas may have executed an innocent man. Rick Santorum actually used the phrase "man on dog" in an interview, while Ron Paul, who I once supported quite zealously, said he would not have authorized the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
And then I found Jon Huntsman, who is fiscally conservative but doesn't have social views that would repel a growing percentage of the American electorate.
(Check out the book The Emerging Democratic Majority. As the U.S. grows less white, less Protestant, and less Christian generally, Religious Right-type views are more and more going to be an albatross around any candidate's neck.)
Here's a column I wrote about Huntsman for my newspaper.
Don't overlook lesser-known GOP candidate in 2012
Let me emphasize this is NOT an endorsement, since my newspaper does not endorse individual candidates. However, it is a list of reasons why Huntsman would make a good candidate. And for good measure, I don't take shots at any of the other candidates--instead, I merely explain Huntsman's strengths.
Now to find a Huntsman group in Georgia. In 2008, there were Ron Paul groups and I was even a member of one. However, searching Meetup.com found nothing Huntsman-related in Atlanta and Googling "Georgians for Huntsman" only found me an anemic Twitter feed.
The Georgia Republican primary is February 7, 2012. There really isn't all that much time left.
P.S.
If you all are ever in Little Five Points in Atlanta, be sure to check out Fox Brothers Bar-B-Q. It's better than Shane's or any other BBQ place I've even been to. I especially like the brisket.