FINALLY! A pledge that I can take without reservation.

I am one of those people who has simply never understood the point of taking a pledge of allegiance to a country. The idea that you would subjugate yourself to the United States, regardless of what kinds of decisions were made by its elected leaders, never set well with me.

Then when you add that whole "one nation under God" part it just turns me into a completely unwilling participant.  I did it for the kids in school, as a TA, but I always felt very uncomfortable and hypocritical.

However as I said that pledge up above is certainly one that I would willingly take any day of the week. And wouldn't it be a much kinder, and more peaceful planet if everybody agreed?

Jon Huntsman compares the Republican party to China. Well there goes THAT political career!

From Buzzfeed:

Huntsman, the former Utah governor and once President Barack Obama's Ambassador to China, expressed disappointment that the Republican Party disinvited him from a Florida fundraiser in March after he publicly called for a third party. 

"This is what they do in China on party matters, they punish you, if you talk off script," he said. 

Huntsman said he regrets his decision to oppose a 10-to-1 spending cuts to tax increase deal to cut the deficit at the Iowa debate lamenting: “if you can only do certain things over again in life.” 

"What went through my head was if I veer at all from my pledge not to raise any taxes…then I’m going to have to do a lot of explaining," he explained. "What was going through my mind was 'don't I just want to get through this?'" 

That decision, Huntsman said, "has caused me a lot of heartburn.” Huntsman jokingly blamed his failed candidacy in part on his wife, Mary Kaye, who told him she'd leave him if he abandoned his principles. 

“She said if you pandered, if you sign any of those damn pledges, I’ll leave you,” Huntsman recounted. 

"So I had to say I believe in science — and people on stage look at you quizzically as though you're was an oddball," Huntsman said, explaining why he was "toast" in Iowa.

You know Huntsman was the ONE nominee that the Obama administration feared, because they knew that in the general election he would be able to attract the moderates and that he could wage a campaign that would make the President's reelection an uphill battle.

Of course they didn't need to worry, since the Republican party of today could not being themselves to actually nominate a candidate that had the credential to do the job.

I have to say that I really like the idea that his wife told him that if he signed any of those ridiculous GOP pledges that she would leave him. Can anybody imagine Ann Romney telling her husband that he was pandering too much? Nope, not me either.

I guess I can admit now that it's all over that I really liked Jon Huntsman.  He had balls, and he did not act like an imbecile to gain the support of the paint chip eaters, and Civil War reenactors that seem to run the Republican party these days.

He had something else going for him as well...hmm now what was it?

Oh well it'll come to me.