August 1st, 2011
From John Heilemann’s great piece in New York Magazine:
A month later, when he visited New York on a fund-raising swing, I asked who his political heroes were. “Reagan was certainly part of that,” Huntsman said, though he paraphrased Dutch’s ringing anti-statism as a commitment to “making sure government never exceeds boundaries and never gets out of control from a cost standpoint.” He also mentioned Nixon: “I mean, here’s a guy who created the EPA.”
Klug August 3, 2011 at 3:11 am
From the article:
“Perry, in other words, could be a bracket buster—a fusion candidate who can unite his party’s Establishment and populist factions, much as Reagan did in 1980. “