Clearly, Jon Huntsman did not receive the RNC talking points memo on how to refer to President Obama.
Conspicuously absent from his campaign kick-off speech were the obligatory references to Obama as the Socialist-anti-American-European-Colonial-Secular-Fascist-Kenyan-pal-of-terrorists-apologist-freedom-killing-anti-American-nonexceptionalist-Mau-Mau-food-stamp President.
Instead, he had the audacity to declare:
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“I respect the president of the United States… He and I have
a difference of opinion on how to help a country we both love.
But the question each of us wants the voters to answer is who
will be the better president, not who’s the better American.”
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While most of us still know little about Jon Hunstman, the candidate, he has now shown himself to be the one civil, mature adult in the room.
A civil candidate taking the high road. Wow.
This, of course, begs the question: Will the voting public — one that knows the names of all the characters on “Jersey Shore” but not the name of our Vice-President — value such a lofty approach?
It sure would be nice to think so.
In politics, though, the high road is usually a dead end.
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