This past week, citizens of the granite state of New Hampshire did a great job in reinforcing the state\u2019s nickname: in a blockheaded, nose-picking Cro-Magnon fashion, nearly 40% of New Hampshirites traveled en masse to their polling stations and voted for Mitt Romney. In a distant second place was Ron Paul, resident libertarian crank whose absurd vision of the future rivals that of a Dali painting. And in a typically meek manner, Jon Huntsman finally poked his silvery head of hair in the upper echelon of GOP candidates with 17% of the New Hampshire vote. <\/p>\n
In Huntsman\u2019s subsequent speech, he vowed that his campaign would \u201cgo south\u201d from New Hampshire. While he may have meant South Carolina, the next stop on the conservative candidates\u2019 tour de force, another\u2014and more accurate\u2014interpretation would be that he was referring to the direction of his future support in the polls. <\/p>\n
What modest \u201cmomentum\u201d Huntsman gained\u2014if it can even be called that\u2014in the already fiercely independent state of New Hampshire was not nearly enough to catapult him into the frontrunner status he will need in order to successfully navigate the waters of the snake handling, reason loathing, and science shunning states of South Carolina and Florida that await next in the GOP primaries.<\/p>\n
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And let\u2019s be honest: even if Huntsman had placed second and managed 20% or more of New Hampshire voters, he wouldn\u2019t stand a chance in the vaudevillian spectacle that is the GOP primary race. Despite the fact that 2008 Obama campaign manager David Plouffe dubbed Huntsman as the sole Republican who made him \u201ca wee bit queasy\u201d about Obama\u2019s 2012 race, Huntsman is sadly incapable of garnering a modicum of support. Here\u2019s why:<\/p>\n