This was a bit of a headscratcher. Same day he gets out, he endorses Romney. He has had some of the most effective anti-Romney ads out there, and because his focus was on NH he was all anti-Romney all the time. The extremely quick pivot to endorsement strikes me as (a) exceptionally crude and cynical resort to standard also-ran politician practices; or (b) a deal was cut (appointment?), which would only amplify (a).
Seriously, if I was going to run in 2016 I would try to avoid leaving something on the record like this that says everything I said up until 15 minutes ago was BS. Striking lack of any effort at authenticity. Unless he has written off 2016 entirely, then who cares. Huntsman just seems really bad at the public image thing.
There's a reason for that, and that's because Huntsman has most of the disadvantages of the Republican party and none of the advantages. His economic policy choices are insanity, running to the right of Paul Ryan at this point, and his social positions to the left of Rick Santorum assure he'll never be taken seriously in the GOP's brave new frontier of panic politics.
As a Democrat, Huntsman would make Ben Nelson and Evan Bayh look like Al Franken by comparison. There's just no place for him in politics.
Exeunt, stage right.
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