There is a lot you can disagree with GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman on.  After all, debate is what campaigns are all about.  But I appreciated his "crazy" tweet this week for two reasons:  he embraced science (while the rest of the GOP field seems to be afraid of science and the role it plays in society) and he demonstrated that there are issues on which Republicans and Democrats can and should find common ground.  

 You'll remember that the GOP's Senate leader was asked after the 2010 election what his party's #1 priority was:  beating President Obama in 2012, he replied.  He didn't say fixing the economy or creating jobs.  

The only goal the Republicans have is defeating President Obama and in the debate over the debt ceiling they proved they were willing to drive the country over a cliff to do so - no matter what happened to the American people.

And thus we received the Tea Party downgrade of our credit rating as a nation.  All because of politics.

Huntsman is running a campaign that seems to be based on the idea that the country is more important than any one election or political party.  

The Tea Party GOP might hate him for it and he might drop out before a single vote is cast but it will be to their lasting regret.  Huntsman is a conservative, no question about it, but he is a principled American first and a candidate like that could win a general election (maybe not against President Obama, who is also a principled man) but the GOP today doesn't seem as interested in principle as they do extremism.