I'll agree on Huntsman nationally, but he never stood a chance in the Republican party. He's too close to center (like pre-2008 McCain) and he didn't satisfy t

I'll agree on Huntsman nationally, but he never stood a chance in the Republican party. He's too close to center (like pre-2008 McCain) and he didn't satisfy the minority, but influential, extreme right. There are plenty of good Republican, slightly-right leaning legislators - senators, representatives, governors - but the party has been hijacked by the extreme right. As much as they like to talk about being the party of Reagan, Reagan would be chastised now for working with a Democrat Congress. Reagan was good friends with Tip O'Neil (Speaker of the House, from Massachusetts, liberal) and nowadays that wouldn't sit well with the party. My father, my father-in-law, and my mother-in-law were all Republicans. After Bush II they all voted Democrat. They'd return if there was some sanity.