Jon Huntsman too sane, plain in GOP madhouse

?I?m running for (president) for Pete?s sake. I can?t have illegals.?

That dimwitted cowboy, Rick Perry, was just too slow on the draw to capitalize on the naked, unfiltered truth he managed to squeeze out of Willard ?Mitt? Romney during one of the weekly GOP vaudeville shows, otherwise known as a presidential debate.

Barack Obama won?t be that stupid.

There is a reason why Mitt Romney stays in the ?respectable? position he?s in, while Republicans continue to fall in and out of love with nuttier candidates who, at the very least, seem convinced of their lunacy.

Unlike Willard, they are all earnest whack jobs.

For the next week or so, it appears the GOP flavor of the month is the sly, bumptious Newt Gingrich.

Newt, of course, is back by default.

Actually, he?s back from the dead. Back, after his credit line at Tiffany?s, after his campaign excursion to the Greek Isles, after his staff quit ... after Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry and the Hermanator have all risen and fallen like bad bundt cakes.

The great thing about Gingrich is that malicious grin of his, so reminiscent of Sidney Greenstreet in ?The Maltese Falcon.?

I once sat up in the gallery, above the speaker?s chair when Newt still occupied it. I will never forget the way he looked out at less than a dozen congressmen in the House chamber that day and made droll faces at everyone who got up to say something.

Obviously, Newt was bored, but that couldn?t quite suppress a kind of playful mischievousness in the fat man with the silver hair. Clearly, Newt got a kick out of being King of the Hill.

Gingrich is bright enough to know he?s going nowhere, but slick enough to have plenty of fun along the way.

And when Newt flames out maybe, just maybe, it might be time for the other Mormon to step into the GOP?s fickle spotlight.

If crazy Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain can snag Newsweek covers, what?s wrong with Jon Huntsman?

The man is every bit as photogenic as Willard, but nowhere near as cloying. OK, so he accepted Obama?s invite to be ambassador to China. At least Huntsman hasn?t been running for president for the last eight years ... like our Mormon.

The day Mitt Romney began running for the White House was the day he faced House Speaker Tom Finneran, raised his right hand and swore an oath to the people of Massachusetts.

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