NHLiberty4Paul Plays Race Card on Huntsman

By NCD on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 11:37am |

Huntsman slams video featuring images of adopted kids

....The video asks whether Huntsman, President Obama's first U.S. ambassador to China and a former Utah governor, is the "Manchurian candidate." That's a reference to the 1962 movie about a Chinese plot to assassinate an American presidential candidate.

The video includes footage of Huntsman speaking Mandarin and holding his daughter, Gracie, who was abandoned in a Chinese vegetable market shortly after she was born. Gracie is now 12.

There is also an image of him holding another daughter, Asha, who was adopted from India and is now 6....

The group should be called 'NHRacists4Paul'. Of course Republicans are not racist, and do not attempt to appeal to racists, that's why GOP politicians and supporters always flood the airwaves with racist slime around election time.

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http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/01/jon-huntsman-ron-paul-ad-china-adopted-daughters-/1?csp=34news

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Just to clarify something: this is a YouTube video posted by the NHRacists4Paul account, which might just be a single individual. That doesn't make the video any less horrible, but it is important to make sure we have the context right.

by Verified Atheist on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 12:36pm

Its actually NHLiberty4Paul, it would be better the other way. I frankly doubt it is the work of one person, we do know that whoever 'they' are, they support Paul, and we can only guess as to why. There is a history of similar attacks, involving adopted children, by the GWB campaign against McCain in 2000 in South Carolina.

by NCD on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 2:42pm

To his credit, Paul didn't waste any time repudiating them.

by PeraclesPlease (not verified) on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 2:46pm

Perhaps it's Santorum attempting to muddy Paul.

by Aunt Sam on Sun, 01/08/2012 - 1:10am

The crudely racist "ad" is still up. It is blindingly obvious to me that it is an ANTI-Ron Paul ad. We're supposed to believe Paul sees Huntsman's N.H. surge as his biggest problem? Ludicrous. I'd suspect a lone agent provocateur rather than any actual campaign.

by acanuck on Sun, 01/08/2012 - 3:55pm

I think you raise a very valid point. Anyone really trying to help Ron Paul would not be wasting resources going after Jon Huntsman. (I also find the suggestion that its Huntsman himself behind this to be ludicrous.) As you say, it's probably one or more anti-Paul people trying to turn people against Ron Paul.

by Verified Atheist on Sun, 01/08/2012 - 6:33pm

...and the anti-McCain ads with his 'black baby' (his adopted Asian child) in SC in 2000 were also blindingly obvious lone provocateur made and anti-GWBush? Racism is still rampant in the good ole USA, and it gets votes friends, the people pushing it are not often very smart.

by NCD on Sun, 01/08/2012 - 7:56pm

True, sometimes a racist ad is just a racist ad. And there are plenty of racist idiots to appeal to.

But this one has the look and feel of an Onion or SNL parody: the corny Oriental background music, the riff on a half-century-old movie, the totally gratuitous "Vote for Ron Paul."

The "black baby" campaign, if I recall correctly, was designed to subtly smear a serious candidate, mainly via robocalls, and nobody put their own candidate's name to it.

This ad's effect (and therefore, I think, its intent) is to discredit Paul rather than to discredit Huntsman. But maybe you're right, and someone in somebody else's campaign sees this as a way to perhaps damage both.

(I read, BTW, that Huntsman hasn't been hiding his fluency in Mandarin on the N.H. campaign trail, so he's probably already losing the outright racist vote.)

by acanuck on Sun, 01/08/2012 - 10:11pm

Yes, with the GOP it is hard to know whether they are serious or being played up by a comedy routine. I have been fooled by some Onion reports, and I recall a guy with a heavy southern accent who used to call NPR, one time with I am sure was satirical sobs about some Republican who died soon after Pat Robertson said God would send a sign about sinners in DC. The NPR GOP guest was struck dumb for a while on that one.

by NCD on Sun, 01/08/2012 - 10:49pm