John Bolton slams Jon Huntsman, keeps option open for presidential run

[TomCADem]

Source: Yahoo News

Former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton may be sitting out the first round of presidential debates and long hours driving across Iowa, but he's still not ruling out a possible run for the White House in 2012.

In a far-ranging interview with National Review, Bolton outlined his campaign strategy and even took a shot from the sidelines at Jon Huntsman, who left his post in the Obama administration as the nation's ambassador to China to run against his former boss.

Bolton suggested that Huntsman should have rejected Obama's invitation to serve in China.

"There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism," Bolton told NRO's Robert Costa. "I don't understand it. This is not like World War II, when we are facing an existential threat to the country as a whole, and you do put partisanship aside."


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Well, Huntsman is done. The right wing chicken hawks are going to eat up Huntsman for his service under the Obama administration.

Also, Bolton is eyeing a Presidential run? Really? And he was once our UN Ambassador?

[Tx4obama]

1. People are not going to vote for Bolton.

They are not even going to be able to hear what he is saying when he talks, in my opinion, because it is hard to focus on what he is saying because every time he is on TV the only thing that draws attention is his WEIRD mustache.

Honestly I've seen him on TV several times and I've never heard a word he has said!

I know that some people don't like to admit it, but 'looks' do matter.

[Poll_Blind]

3. I wouldn't say it's so much his moustache...but the fact that it sits above his...

..crazy-as-fuck mouth doesn't help. It's like a poorly taxidermied opossum mounted on the mantle over a fireplace without a properly working flue.

PB

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

2. I am told the Boltons "youthful indiscretions" of the 1970's are very well documented

including in photographs of he and his first wife getting their freak on at Plato’s Retreat.

[Poll_Blind]

4. I can avoid websites with gruesome images but I am still helpless against....

...becoming a victim of the imagery your post evoked. (shudder)

PB

[naaman fletcher]

5. ah

maybe that is why he has the moustache, to remind him of the 70's.

[Wilms]

6. .

[Lasher]

9. Yosemite John

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Comics and cartoonists are holding their breath. nt

[KG]

8. jeez, the parade of GOP whackjobs just keeps getting longer...

[micraphone]

10. Hehehe love it!

The guy is even more delusional than the rest of the whackjobs!

Imagine what he would be like in a Pres debate (with the *dick looking on)...!

Noeeessss.....


and buh bye :hi:

[tclambert]

14. I wonder what James Watt is doing. You know, Reagan's old Secretary of the Interior

who didn't really believe in the need for consevation. As he said, "I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns." And he banned the Beach Boys from performing on the National Mall because they "attract the wrong element." But he's bound to make his cabinet ethnically balanced, with "a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple" on it for sure.

Here's a quote from Wikipedia:

During a March 1991 dinner event organized by the Green River Cattlemen's Association in Wyoming, Watt said, "If the troubles from environmentalists cannot be solved in the jury box or at the ballot box, perhaps the cartridge box should be used."

And another:

During a 2001 interview, Watt applauded the Bush administration energy strategy and said its prioritization of oil drilling and coal mining above conservation is just what he recommended during the early 1980s.<30> "Everything Cheney's saying, everything the president's saying - they're saying exactly what we were saying 20 years ago, precisely ... Twenty years later, it sounds like they've just dusted off the old work."

He'd be perfect for the "modern" Republican party.

[lunatica]

11. Just when I thought we'd seen the true scrapings of the scum at the bottom

of the barrel, along comes someone who's even lower than that. Who's next? Cheney? Rumsfeld?

[spicegal]

12. Bolton doesn't have a snow balls chance in hell of even

coming close to winning any election, not even for dog catcher. The guy is nasty and has no personality. I'm sure right wingers will wrap their arms around him, like they do the equally unlikable Dick Cheney.

[TomCADem]

19. Yet, It Reflects Poorly On The Current Republican Field...

...that he thinks he has a chance of winning. Heck, you have Michelle Bachman, Palin, and retreads like Pawlenty and Romney. Finally, Roger Ailes is actively encouraging folks like Chris Christie and Rick Perry to throw their hat in the ring.

Why? Because Roger Ailes is not satisfied with the current slate of candidates, which is why he hearts several folks who have so far stayed on the sidelines like Christie.

[harmonicon]

13. Does he know that you can't become president by a recess appointment? nt.

[wordpix]

15. Run, John, run! You'd be a GRATE candidate

Nuke first, ask questions later.

[center rising]

16. Bolton is a freaking loser

[WhiteTara]

17. Oh, please mustache man, join the fray! n/t

[struggle4progress]

18. Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun. If the sun don't come you get a tan

from standing in the English rain ... goo goo ga chjoob ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yNcE8c3j2M