Jon Huntsman: The Ryan Budget-Lovingest Republican Ever

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Jon Huntsman: The Ryan Budget-Lovingest Republican Ever

Evan McMorris-Santoro

Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who took his first steps into the Republican presidential field as a moderate, has over the past month turned himself into something far from the center when it comes to Medicare. From throwing Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) more love than anyone to grabbing onto Ryan's Medicare-destroying budget with both hands, Huntsman's separating himself from the pack: No one running for president, it seems, is more excited about the Republican budget plan than him.

In an op-ed published Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal, Huntsman calls Ryan's plan an "honest attempt to save Medicare" and he calls on critics to put up their own plan or shut up about the GOP's. But that's among the more subtle love he's thrown Ryan and his budget in the recent past -- on Tuesday, Hunstman called Ryan one of the two Republicans alive he admires most.

The moment came in an interview with RealClearPolitics' Erin McPike, who caught up with Huntsman as he stumped across New Hampshire. Huntsman, President Obama's former ambassador to China, has faced questions from conservatives over just how pure he is on right-wing issues.

It's not the first time Huntsman's stood firmly behind the Ryan Medicare proposals which polls have shown to be a political liability for Republicans. Speaking with ABC News last month, Huntsman said he would have voted for Ryan's plan, "including the Medicare provisions."

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Ryan's scam = Republican platform

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. They all seem to be doubling down on "teh crazy"

:crazy: :silly:

They did the same thing with Social Security back in 2005: Promise current (or soon-to-be) beneficiaries that things will remain the same for them and bash Democrats for obstructionism, lying on them (aka telling the public the truth about Republicans), and, to top it all off, "not having a plan". There are some things that could and should be done to help strengthen Social Security and/or Medicare but the Republican plans are not among them and doing nothing in the end is always preferable to doing whatever the Republicans are proposing IMHO.

[ClarkUSA]

2. Huntsman also said the two living Republicans he most admires is Paul Ryan & Mike Huckabee. LOL!!

Anyone who said he was the least offensive Republican need to get a clue.

Huntsman is a political metamorph who makes Romney look steadfast rock-ribbed conservative.