Obama's Secret Plan to Deport His Rivals

Huntsman appointment just the latest development in troubling habit

That president of ours, Barack Obama, sure is a wily one! He's slowly draining the Republican party of its last remaining moderate, non-wingnutty members, and the campaign just got more aggressive.

It started off quietly, with the nomination of Judd Gregg to Commerce Secretary. That didn't work out so hot, of course, once Gregg decided he couldn't get on board with the president's budget plan. But then Arlen Specter switched parties, leaving Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins the last two Senate Republicans eating at the lonely moderates' luncheon trough. And now Obama has set to eliminating potential 2012 rivals for the presidency by very publicly making nice with them -- which Republican primary voters absolutely loathe -- and even appointing them to far-flung diplomatic posts.

Jon Huntsman, whom non-Utahans may not have heard of because it is best to keep your head down these days if you belong to the GOP and support civil unions and environmental "things," is the current governor of Utah and may soon be the United States ambassador to China. Huntsman is also regarded as one of those Republican governors who might actually appeal to voters outside Utah and a corner of the American Southeast in a presidential election.

The ambassadorship would be a fine post for the governor, given that he actually speaks fluent Mandarin and knows a lot about China. Who knows, maybe he'll actually be good at it, and convince China to keep buying our rapidly escalating debt. But one thing is for certain: he won't be around in 2012 to run for president.

It's turning out that the very best way to discern who President Obama believes is a threat is to just look at who he decides to ship overseas. Look at what he did to poor Hillary Clinton, putting her on permanent globe-trotting duty! And now Huntsman.

Just wait to see what he has planned for Mitt Romney.

Sara K. Smith writes for NBC and Wonkette when she isn't lecturing on international diplomacy.

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