Huntsman should have waited a day
Huntsman, known mainly for trying to win the Republican nomination by knocking those horrible "anti-science" Republicans, finally gave up.
Poor timing. A story popped up today that showed just how horrible those "anti-science" Republicans really are! Those horrible "anti-science" Republicans have
imposed new rules on medical research with animals, which will require most universities to spend millions of dollars remodeling labs and adding new caretakers. Some may not be able to afford the change.
Nasty, nasty, nasty! Those horrible anti-science Republicans are not just anti-science but anti-medicine! Halliburton! Homophobic! Nazi! Fascist!
Oh sorry! Whoops! Those weren't Republicans at all! Those were the permanent Maoists and Stalinists and PolPotists and DearLeaderKimists in the permanent bureaucracy. And they were encouraged by the Obama administration, which follows Bush in most ways but not on this issue.
Who knows, maybe some medical researchers will remember that Republican administrations
didn't force them to spend money they couldn't afford....... No they won't. They're just as impenetrably idiotic as the permanent bureaucrats.
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Sidenote: Actually Huntsman's basic approach wasn't all that unusual. He was seeking the votes of hard-left academics who think "Science" consists solely of the Carbon Cult's perfect falsehoods, untestable Big Bang and Multiverse cosmologies, and long-abandoned Darwinian axioms. These folks will never never never never never vote R; only a few of them can even stand to vote for a regular D.
All brand-R politicians waste their time seeking votes from people who can't or won't vote for them. 80% of the R agenda is exclusively designed for Jewish billionaires and Israeli citizens; 5% supposedly appeals to blacks; 15% supposedly appeals to illegal Mexicans. The Jewish billionaires and blacks would never never never never never never never never vote for R, and the Israelis and Mexicans aren't American voters at all.