What exactly is that? - Granite Grok

What exactly is that?

The Live Feed:

MSNBC has hired Abby Huntsman, a host/producer on HuffPost Live and daughter of former GOP candidate Jon Huntsman, as a co-host of the political panel talk show, The Cycle.

“I am excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to The Cycle,” Huntsman said on HuffPost Live on Wednesday. “I think that’s needed today in the political discourse.”

That would be Jon Huntsman, former GOP PRESIDENTIAL candidate (yes, it does make a difference).  Who governed, when a Governor, in a fairly conservative manner but then decided that the differential for him was to run (and certainly talk) as a moderate Republican.  Which, in the end, turned out badly as far as the primary results were concerned at the end of the trail (his stop in Laconia when he first started running was a disaster – I was there; a complete nothing burger compared to “the game” that the others brought.  Didn’t help his “first impression” that his aide-de-camps couldn’t spell his name right on the literature).

Now, I know Establishment Republican.  I know grassroots Republican.  I know political operative Republican.  I known TEA Partiers / 912ers / Constitutionalists that participate in the Republican Party.  I know Libertarians that participate in the Republican Party.    I know Progressive Republicans (who pretty much are also Big Government / Statist Republicans, which means that I would value a cup of spit more than them as there’s hardly any difference between them and Socialist Democrats, IMHO).  I know liberal Republicans.  I know moderate Republicans.  And of course, I is a Conservative who participates in the Republican Party and have a number of sojourners there – the principles and rationality of our Founders drive our actions and there is fidelity aplenty for that.

But WHAT the heck is “moderate…Conservatism”?    Conservatism is all about principle – moderate is someone willing to cast aside principles in order to “do something” (or in the case, many times, getting hoodwinked into something that down the road turns out really, really badly).

Maybe MSNBC will be good for her career in the Republican Party – it has done splendidly for Joe Scarborough, hasn’t it?

That said, I do wish her well.  Really.

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