Many people have already written out Republican Jon Huntsman for the White House term. But their willingness to defend his record as ecologist - at a time when other Republicans fleeing theirs - suggests that Huntsman himself does not assess their chances in the race for the party nomination in 2012. Perhaps determined to go out with their guns blazing: a Republican green kamikaze.
Huntsman, a former Governor of Utah, which until a few months ago Barack Obama Ambassador to China, was the keynote speaker at a dinner organized by the Republicans for environmental protection on the night of Thursday.
Huntsman used the appearance to reaffirm its conviction in the preservation and to review their efforts as Governor of Utah to switch official vehicles to natural gas.
"Conservation is conservative," Huntsman told the group that had less than 200 people at the dinner. "I am not ashamed of being conservation."
He added: "Also I think that science should lead our discussions on climate change".
Let's be clear: Huntsman, during his time in Utah, not anywhere near as green as other Governors even Republican colleagues as Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The event on Thursday night was sponsored by the nuclear and natural gas companies. -only allies of Greenpeace. and Huntsman actually uttered the words climate change only once in the 20-minute speech.
He also left the mention of its previous support for CAP and trade. Huntsman appeared in television commercials urging Congress to pass a climate bill. He has since said cap-and-trade would be a major drag on the economy in a recession.
But by Republican standards of the day their points of view on the environment make him a heretic.
Republicans in the House of representatives are using debt crisis to push deep cuts to the budgets of medium environmental. They want to scrap of light bulbs for energy saving, opening of drilling close to the Grand Canyon and strip the protections for manatees.
As Huntsman joked in his speech: many people had been asking him why he dared even to upload. The Republicans for the protection of the environment, already a group of marginal in the party, made an enemy of the conservative party's dominant tea when he publicly demanded they vote against light bulbs. David Jenkins, an official representative, said that it was a "silly bll based entirely on ignorance and false assertions". As the event got underway, a truck in a circle the hotel with posters denouncing Huntsman as a Republican wrong, a whiner "climate" and "Of Utah to the Gore".
So why does he do it?
Huntsman can really believe in what he is saying. Can you believe that it can help their chances establishing himself, apart from other candidates. It can be through this career as a simulacrum of the 2016 elections - and with the hope that the Tea Party movement will have burned it at the time. Or you can think that it would be futile to try to flee from their record of all forms. In this case, it could also occur by its principles.
What do you think? Huntsman destroyed his race for the White House, or he is a man ahead of his time?
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