Huntsman Up To The Task - Beats Back Romney

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Anyone who was watching Sunday morning's Republican Presidential Debate sponsored by Meet The Press and FaceBook saw Jon Huntsman respond to Mitt Romney's less than favorable "you worked for the President" comment at Saturday night's debate.  The weekend's first debate on Saturday night saw Romney criticize Huntman's service under Barack Obama.  Huntsman served as the President's Ambassador to China for the first two years of the President's administration. 

Huntsman was commenting on diplomatic relationships and speaking to his experience of serving as Ambassador to China.  Romney took a swipe at Huntsman for working for a democratic president saying he didn't see how someone seeking to lead the Republican Party could have promoted the policies of the Obama administration.  Fast forward to Sunday morning and Huntsman had his shot and he fired back.  Romney again criticized Huntsman for working for President Obama and Huntsman fired back saying that he was serving his country. 

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Romney said he appreciated his service but did not back off that he worked for President Obama.  Huntsman fired back that "this nation is divided because of attitudes like that".  It was Huntsman's most effective moment in all of the debates to date.  His comment received a huge positive response from the crowd in attendance. 

Jon Huntsman is right too.  The nation is divided because of leaders like Mitt Romney who see absolutely no value in working with the opposition.  Quite simply, the democratic party and Barack Obama as the President, are the enemy.  Huntsman, clearly a conservative, understands however that both parties must work together to find solutions to our nation's problems. 

Once again, I was impressed with Jon Huntsman and his statesman-like approach to governing.  Out of all the Republican candidates, I see him as the most presidential.  Not to mention, reasonable.  I do not agree with all his plans and his views but I am impressed with him as a candidate for this nation's highest office.  I believe he is a formidable candidate and truth be told, I think if by some rare circumstance he could win the nomination, we might have a campaign of honest discussion between Huntsman and Obama without all the unnecessary mud-slinging and ugly rhetoric.  Just two men with differing points of view on what their plans for governing would be. 

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How refreshing would that be?  Could you imagine for a moment what that type of campaign would be like?  The only negative conjecture would be the Super Pacs putting forth their dribble in campaign ads.  For once, real issues of real consequence would be debated and the two candidates could put forth their plans and both would be measured for their ideas of governing.  How novel would that be?

It continues to be my fervent hope that a day will come when two men will vie for the Presidency and be able to speak directly to the issues laying out their plans for our nation without rancor or prejudice.  Just two good men or women speaking what they believe and a willingness to hear out the other side.  A true debate of American politics.  I know it will never happen but think of the value of such a campaign.  We actually would understand what our candidate stood for and what they believed in.  We might like a few things the Republican candidate supported and maybe a few things the Democratic candidate backed.  We would then be able to actually make an informed and educated decision based on those issues.  How refreshing would that be?

Dream on you say.  You're right of course but I long for that day.