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Jon Huntsman Drops Out Of GOP Race, Slams ‘Toxic’ Political Discourse

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Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman announced that he was suspending his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination Monday morning, noting that, “this is the most important election of our lifetime,” and putting all his weight behind former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the man he believes is best equipped to win this November’s election.

Huntsman cited two urgent deficits facing the American people today; one is economic, the other is trust. He suggested that President Obama’s administration was behind unprecedented levels of divisiveness in our country (“divisiveness is corrosive,” Huntsman remarked), and urged the remaining campaigns to “cease attacking each other,” and focus, instead, on putting their time and resources into building trust and uniting the country.

“This race has degenerated into an onslaught of negative and personal attacks not worthy of the American people and not worthy off this critical time in American history,” Huntsman said in a news conference in which he was flanked by his wife, children, father and South Carolina supporters.

“At its core, the Republican Party is a party of ideas. But the current toxic form of our political discourse does not help our cause,” Huntsman added. “Today I call on each campaign to cease attacking each other and instead talk directly to the American people.”

Watch Huntsman announce he is ending his campaign for the presidency:

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  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    John proves he’s not against sludge “as such”… He aims to convince folks the waste the right wallows in was produced by another and coordinate the pushbrooms toward Obama.

  • http://PalinsDirtyLittleSecret.blogspot.com/ FedsTakeOverMediaProofClickMe

    Looks like government trolls like yourself won’t be able to claim that he’s “surging” and taking someone else out of the race in SC

  • Anonymous

    He’s fundamentally wrong about this, but he’s still less of a partisan hack than the rest of them.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    He is surging. There is no doubt he will win. I got this information from the top… the top agent on the case.

  • Anonymous

    What a joke.Anyone who has brains can see it is the Republican backwards party that is dividing this country.People are smarter than they are that is why President Obama will win a second term.Republican side had their chance and did screw up America for 8 years.Their brainwashing only effects a small few anymore.

  • Anonymous

    Really?  Not Obama saying, “we won”?  Not leftists crying racism at every chance they get?  What about when the Dems had the presidency and both houses for two years?  Dont forget that the Dems had both houses for four years.  Please tell me that you aren’t really THAT stupid?

  • Anonymous

    Including Obama, Harry Reid, Palosi……..

  • Anonymous

    My fist disagrees with your fist. If only I was Tony_the_Paper.

  • Anonymous

    You’re feeding right into the problem…

  • Anonymous

    Wrong about what specifically?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    Well Mr Huntsman you can’t be surprised that if you roll around in the GOP primary sewer that you will get crap all over you.

  • 12voltman1
  • Anonymous

    Hunstman has the chutzpah to accuse this president of divisiveness. 

    The president who reached across the party aisle and appointed him over eminently qualified Democrats to represent us in China. The president who appointed Robert Gates, LaHood and other Republicans to his cabinet. The president he shafted by leaving his sensitive post early, after spending the last 5 months in Beijing putting together a campaign organization by stealth instead of doing his job.

    What a disloyal putz. This my friends, is the result of bipartisanship the Republican way.

  • Anonymous

    Memo to Mr. Huntsman: Does the following ring a bell: Muslim, Marxist, Communist, Socialist, born in Kenya, dictator, Fascist, etc., ring a bell?

  • Anonymous

    He say’s he is “putting all his weight behind former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney”…whoa.

    There’s an ounce and half to push the Governor over the top…

  • Anonymous

    It’s called “cover”. Pick a lightweight from the opposition and bring him in for political cover…you can try to call yourself “bi-partisan”–didn’t work–won’t matter–they are both–DONE.

  • Anonymous

    Correct. Huntsman and Romney are both done.

  • Anonymous

    That would be fine with me…the pendulum swings the other way big time eventually.

  • Anonymous

    That the administration has been the prime source of the toxicity. Obama has bent over backwards to play nice with people who said that it was their number one mission to defeat him. People who said from day one that they hoped he’d “fail.” The notion that this president (the guy who reached across the aisle and appointed him ambassador, no less) has been responsible for the political divisiveness is so patently absurd and so at odds with the facts, it’s laughable on its face.

  • Anonymous

    Subject: Divisiveness

    “Mitt Romney criticized me while he was out raising money…for serving my country in China. Yes, under a Democrat, like my two sons are doing in the United States Navy. They’re not asking what political affiliation the President is… I will always put my country first, and I think that’s important.”

    “This nation is divided, David, because of attitudes like that.”

    John Huntsman

  • Anonymous

    Bang! Liked it so much I copied and pasted elsewhere. Check is in the post.

  • Anonymous

    Huntsman was all over the “Bain” issue, until he figured out that he and his father would be wasting their money pushing his campaign. Now, he’s “for” Romney??? What a joke!

    I still suspect that he’s going to “do a Romney” and figures that Romney will NOT beat Obama (a reasonable assumption), so he (Huntsman) will spend the next FIVE years putting together a structure and a team for his run for the presidency in 2016.

    Smarmy little man.

  • Anonymous

    Oh good God….  That happens to each party in every primary.  Do you not recall Clinton and Obama battling?  Just stop with the dishonest rants.

  • Anonymous

    Not a reasonable assumption at all.  More like a wish on your part.

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Lol!

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Hmmmm, seems this ‘lightweight’ was also chosen by former POTUS REAGAN, and both H.&HW. Bush……..!!!!!! 

  • Anonymous

    They did not “choose” him to be president now–did they? Neither have the primary voters….we don’t need another puff and fluff after this last one.

  • Anonymous

    Hardly…I do NOT support Huntsman- he’s the candidate of “Morning Joe.”

  • Bobby Brady

    Sayonara!
    That’s Japanese for “Good-bye”!

    Here’s an REO Speedwagon song for you Jon huntsman:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L2T7bWQzEs

  • Anonymous

    Indeed – and the only brainwaves “the party of ideas” comes up with wallow in toxicity. This happens when the GOP applauds the demagogues of Fox etc. who usurped the party.

  • Anonymous

    So?

    What are you *actually* saying? Having a majority is divisive? And saying that you have won when you, well, won, is now also considered divisive? 

    And then you are calling other people “THAT stupid” …

  • Anonymous

    …and when would it not be considered “cover” but actually “bi-partisan” in your opinion?

  • Anonymous

    Nice ‘Jump-of-the-Tracks’ but just to dabble in your neck of the woods for a second, ‘NO’ they did not ”choose” him  to be president now~~~but again, that ‘lightweight’ was chosen to do some heavy work within Republican Administrations, would ”you” agree???

  • Anonymous

    Hmmm, ‘Not Quite’……but, the link is ‘VERY SPECIFIC’…….even with ‘Control’ of both Houses, it was obvious that-that ‘control’ wasnt really what it cracked up to be…..thats what I’m saying!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah we both know that – but does ‘brdad’ know it? Cheers

  • Anonymous

    The only ones who care that Huntsman is gone are liberals who, truth be known, don’t care either.

  • Anonymous

    Anyone with a brain can see that it is both parties doing that as well as the two party system. Partisan sheep are incapable of seeing it and only whine about the other side while participating in the same. Your post only marginalizes yourself and unfarely those who identify under the same label.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out!

  • Anonymous

    Probably–when they share some values, vision and understanding–like a marriage as opposed to a liaison where money is exchanged for value received…

  • Anonymous

    Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce? White House staff assistant? Puhleezzeee… Deputy trade rep? You are too easily impressed.

  • Anonymous

    I take it……your RESUME is more ‘IMPRESSIVE’???

  • Anonymous

    No. It’s not. But then–I’m not running for president either.

    Whether a voter has a more impressive set of credentials than the candidate running for office should probably not be the focus for most people–it’s assumed that if you are a serious candidate to lead the country you would have done something in life to demonstrate leadership.

    Asking the question you did and presenting it as some kind of ‘argument’ speaks volumes about your qualifications to vote.

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