There is one sure way to complicate the effort to defeat the incompetent sitting President.  Run a third party candidate. And that is exactly what a group led by former New Jersey Governor and "Rockefeller Republican" Christie Todd Whitman hopes to accomplish.  Politico reported last week that Whitman is "encouraging" Republican candidate Jon Huntsman to run as an independent: Whitman, a Republican, said a third-party effort by Huntsman is the way to go because she believes it's unlikely he has much of shot at the GOP nomination. Whitman, who headed the EPA under former President George W. Bush, serves on the board of directors of Americans Elect, which is trying to get ballot lines in all 50 states and have delegates take part in an online vote to select a bipartisan presidential ticket. A Huntsman spokesman said in response "Huntsman is a lifelong Republican and he's going to run for president as a Republican." On the other hand, Huntsman, like Donald Trump and Ron...(Read Full Post)