It would appear that President Barack H. Obama intends to have as his administration's ambassador to China Utah's Republican governor, Jon Huntsman. The initial reaction to this choice has been positive in that the governor is bright; successful; well spoken; well acquainted with China; speaks Mandarin; and provides evidence that the Obama Administration is pledged to a bipartisan approach to governing, at least in international foreign policy, our nation.
We cannot allow ourselfs to be that naive.
The ever-calculating liberal handlers of President Obama see this action as 1) good PR for their man by involving Republicans in his administration; 2) good PR for their man if Huntsman gains any positive understandings from Communist China; 3) a good GOP scapegoat for their man if American-Chinese relations sour; and 4) a good 2012 presidential reelection stategy for their man. The priorities are always "for their man" and not for our nation.
Looking closer, points 1-3 are selfevident but point 4 is not as transparent. The advocates of the Obama Administration want to insure that their man is reelected and returned to power in 2012. To help insure that outcome one of their plans is to assist in the marginalization of the only other substantial and opposing political party.
That party, the GOP, is currently facing a fork in its political ideology road. To the left is a path to moderate the traditional planks of the Republican Party platform with an acceptance of, among other things, the notion of global warming; the notion of greater governmental control over industry; the notion of industrial taxation via cap-and-trade; thenotion that gay unions are to be on parity with traditional heterosexual marriages. All of these policies are supported by Huntsman. To the right is a path to revitalize and strengthen the conservative planks of that platform. This "right" view is supported by various conservative GOP leaders including Dick Chaney and promoted by certain talk show hosts.
This internal conflict in the Republican Party between adhering to the past and moderating for the future has already manifested itself and may well fatally divide the GOP. To act as a catalyst to aggravate and to hasten this rupture makes sense to the B. H. Obama handlers. Therefore the decision of the White House for the promotion of the left leaning Republicam leader, Huntsman, whose name has already come into focus as a possible 2012 GOP candidate for President.
No matter how well Governor Huntsman does or does not do in his ambassadorship role, it all works out well for President Obama.
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