{"id":24352,"date":"2011-12-08T13:10:30","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T20:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/huntsman-buckles-to-the-party-line-on-climate-change.html"},"modified":"2011-12-08T14:42:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T21:42:32","slug":"huntsman-buckles-to-the-party-line-on-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/huntsman-buckles-to-the-party-line-on-climate-change.html","title":{"rendered":"Huntsman buckles to the Party Line on climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Huntsman has distinguished himself in the GOP field for being relatively sane, somewhat moderate, and surprisingly &quot;maverick&quot; from the rest of the Koch-induced Republican field on the subject of climate change and global warming.<\/p>\n<p>Until now.<\/p>\n<p>Sad. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2Fjon-huntsman-fl-cpac-300x199.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/green\/2011\/12\/06\/383101\/jon-huntsman-now-questions-climate-change-because-of-a-university-in-scotland\/'>Huntsman Bows To Right Wing, Reverses Position On Climate Science<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAt an oil-sponsored event at the Heritage Foundation, presidential candidate Jon Huntsman reversed his prior defense of climate science. Huntsman, who famously mocked his fellow candidates for questio&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Huntsman has distinguished himself in the GOP field for being relatively sane, somewhat moderate, and surprisingly &quot;maverick&quot; from the rest of the Koch-induced Republican field on the subject of climate change and global warming. Until now. Sad. #ddtb Embedded Link Huntsman Bows To Right Wing, Reverses Position On Climate Science At an oil-sponsored event &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/huntsman-buckles-to-the-party-line-on-climate-change.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Huntsman buckles to the Party Line on climate change&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99,63],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","category-environment","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25312,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/12\/hooray-for-money.html","url_meta":{"origin":24352,"position":0},"title":"Hooray for money!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Jan-12 7:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because of unlimited donations to Super PACs, supporters of some of the increasingly has-been GOP candidates are able to keep those candidacies alive.Which I suppose is good news if you actually like Gingrich or Huntsman or Santorum, or if you think that their being in race will weaken Romney as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24243,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/05\/the-joker-is-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":24352,"position":1},"title":"The Joker is Trump","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Dec-11 10:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump is a modern-day P.T. Barnum -- except that Barnum was actually a much nicer guy in fact. Anyway, as he coincidentally is flogging a new book, he's busy setting up a \"debate\" with the GOP candidates ... and, of course, mocking those who've said they won't be there.And,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31479,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/25\/fearing-moderation.html","url_meta":{"origin":24352,"position":2},"title":"Fearing moderation","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Nov-12 3:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Obama campaign was much more worried that John Huntsman would get the nomination than that Romney would. \u00a0The reason is obvious -- most of the Right would have held their nose to vote for a Republican moderate, and much of the middle might well have chosen Huntsman over Obama.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24930,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/is-ideology-taking-a-back-seat-to-electability.html","url_meta":{"origin":24352,"position":3},"title":"Is ideology taking a back seat to electability?","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-Dec-11 9:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"The article suggests that GOP primary voters \/ poll-takers are worrying more about electability of their presidential primary candidates (vs. Obama) than about what they believe in. I'm not sure I agree, given the battle for the Conservative Base part of the primaries -- where we've seen Perry, then Cain,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25082,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/04\/just-in-case-you-ever-dreamed-that-it-wasnt-all-about-partisanship.html","url_meta":{"origin":24352,"position":4},"title":"Just in case you ever dreamed that it wasn&#39;t all about partisanship","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Jan-12 5:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not \"Who's the best candidate to vote for?\" or \"Hey, I'm a moderate who might cross over if the party nominates an extremist\" but Party Trumps All.\"The state Republican Party will require voters to sign a loyalty oath in order to participate in the March 6 presidential primary. 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