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Observations from Charleston: God Help South Carolina

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Unlike the other GOP presidential candidate, Huntsman supported the deal that averted a default on U.S. debt payments. He is the only candidate who supports same-sex civil unions and the only one who supports scientific evidence that human beings contribute to global warming. Huntsman opposes deporting illegal immigrants and using waterboarding on enemy combatants.

 

Such positions made him unacceptable by today's GOP.

 

Today's GOP presidential candidates believe that torture is necessary to stop terrorism and less regulation is necessary to fix the problems on Wall Street. Who cares if the photographs of U.S. soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners of war were used as recruiting posters by al Qaeda? Or that our economic collapse was a direct consequence of too little regulation.

 

Huntsman joined Romney, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, and Texas Gov. Rick Perry Saturday, January 14, at the Sottile Theater in downtown Charleston for a forum for undecided voters. U.S. Rep. Ron Paul did not attend the event.

 

The crowd of 700 included a woman from nearby Summerville, who said she was torn between voting for Romney and Perry. After hearing Perry, the women, who had moved from Texas, said she would vote for Perry.

 

"I think if he can run Texas, he can do a pretty good job running the United States," she said.

 

George W. Bush certainly taught us that, didn't he?

 

One woman from Harleyville, South Carolina, said she had narrowed her decision to Romney, Gingrich, and Perry.

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Chris Lamb is a professor of Communication at the College of Charleston, in Charleston, SC, he teaches courses in journalism and media studies. He has written hundreds of newspaper columns that have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles (more...)
 
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