We call them RINOs, but they are actually more like snakes — the kind that slither right into your house, up onto the bed, and under the sheets, where they lie in wait for a chance to bite. Take 2012 presidential wannabe Jon Huntsman, for example. A WaPo review of the new book Double Down by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann discloses this revelation:

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Perhaps most damning for a candidate who professed to be above politics-as-usual, the authors report that the Huntsman campaign was behind two of the cycle’s roughest news hits: peddling dirt to reporters on Mitch Daniels’s wife, Cheri, a warning shot intended to keep the former Indiana governor out of the GOP field; and facilitating Politico’s splashy story about Cain’s apparent extramarital dalliances, a revelation that drove the pizza magnate from the race.

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Cheri Daniels supposedly abandoned her kids between her divorce from and remarriage to Mitch. Herman Cain was destroyed by a sudden bimbo eruption that was never as well documented as the ones Bill Clinton managed to shrug off.

As NewsBusters notes,

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Although Cain denied the allegations, the media firestorm that ensued was so fierce that he eventually withdrew from the race.

Not surprisingly, as soon as he exited, the accusers went back into their holes and we heard nothing more about the matter. Nothing.

Funny how that happens.

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Huntsman was the liberal media’s favorite Republican candidate, mostly because he shared their political outlook. From him we learn the same lesson we should have learned long ago from John McCain: do not let snakes slither into your bed. You will know they are snakes if they call themselves Republicans yet the media does not try to destroy them.

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Pizza? I thought it was the yellow ties.