JON HUNTSMAN: FAST AND BULBOUS!
Oct. 15th, 2011 11:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogAnd while I’m blogging about Sarah Palin and Herman Cain, I might as well blog about Jon Huntsman, who – if elected – will be the first American president to be a big Captain Beefheart fan.
Or at least he claims to be. I mean, Trout Mask Replica is probably the one Beefheart album most people have heard of. And there’s no such song as “China Pig Hammer” on the album (he’s probably mixing up “China Pig” and “Orange Claw Hammer”).
On the other hand, if yr going to name-check musicians just for the sake of it, most politicians would go with easy, obvious choices like Springsteen or Fleetwood Mac or Ted Nugent or someone. Beefheart is about as out there as it gets before you start resorting to the likes of GG Allin.
Also, how many politicians would ever think of making Kurt Cobain references out of nowhere as an argument tactic?
So I’m willing to take Huntsman’s Beefheart fandom at face value.
Apart from that, all I know about him is that he’s the other moderate Mormon ex- governor in the race. He was also, I believe, the first to make the 9-9-9 pizza joke.
Okay, I’m exaggerating a little. I also know about his stint as the US ambassador to China (both his appointment and his resignation made news here in Hong Kong), which theoretically gives him some foreign-policy clout.
And I know he’s just about out of campaign money. Between that and the fact that he’s been polling just above the 2% mark, it looks like he’ll need to do a Herman Cain in New Hampshire to stay in the race.
It does seem like he should be doing better than he has. On paper, Huntsman looks about as strong a mod Republican as you could hope for, and he doesn’t even have a history of socialized medicine like The Other Mormon to explain to the Tea Party crowd. I suspect it’s down to the fact that Romney established himself as the default mod candidate first, and the GOP has a tendency to think in terms of “Okay, whose turn is it to be nominated?”
I don’t know that I’d want to see Huntsman win (though if the choice was Hunstman vs Cain, Perry and Bachmann, then yeah, Huntsman looks like the best possible deal). But it’d be worth it if we got to hear this during the inauguration.
END CREDITS: Cheers tobedsitter23 for tipping me off about the Huntsman/Beefheart connection.
She knows all the colors that nature do,
This is dF
Or at least he claims to be. I mean, Trout Mask Replica is probably the one Beefheart album most people have heard of. And there’s no such song as “China Pig Hammer” on the album (he’s probably mixing up “China Pig” and “Orange Claw Hammer”).
On the other hand, if yr going to name-check musicians just for the sake of it, most politicians would go with easy, obvious choices like Springsteen or Fleetwood Mac or Ted Nugent or someone. Beefheart is about as out there as it gets before you start resorting to the likes of GG Allin.
Also, how many politicians would ever think of making Kurt Cobain references out of nowhere as an argument tactic?
So I’m willing to take Huntsman’s Beefheart fandom at face value.
Apart from that, all I know about him is that he’s the other moderate Mormon ex- governor in the race. He was also, I believe, the first to make the 9-9-9 pizza joke.
Okay, I’m exaggerating a little. I also know about his stint as the US ambassador to China (both his appointment and his resignation made news here in Hong Kong), which theoretically gives him some foreign-policy clout.
And I know he’s just about out of campaign money. Between that and the fact that he’s been polling just above the 2% mark, it looks like he’ll need to do a Herman Cain in New Hampshire to stay in the race.
It does seem like he should be doing better than he has. On paper, Huntsman looks about as strong a mod Republican as you could hope for, and he doesn’t even have a history of socialized medicine like The Other Mormon to explain to the Tea Party crowd. I suspect it’s down to the fact that Romney established himself as the default mod candidate first, and the GOP has a tendency to think in terms of “Okay, whose turn is it to be nominated?”
I don’t know that I’d want to see Huntsman win (though if the choice was Hunstman vs Cain, Perry and Bachmann, then yeah, Huntsman looks like the best possible deal). But it’d be worth it if we got to hear this during the inauguration.
END CREDITS: Cheers to
bedsitter23 for tipping me off about the Huntsman/Beefheart connection.She knows all the colors that nature do,
This is dF
