Thank you for your thoughtful reply. His AGW stand is a deal breaker for me. Every conservative impulse he might have is trumped by this irrational drive to drag the economy back 50 years.
If Huntsman is the candidate I stay home.
At some point this becomes a branding or marketing problem.
He isn’t for cap and trade or another other massive intervention in this economy (just like Gingrich and Romney). In 2011 Huntsman said, “Cap-and-trade ideas aren’t working; it hasn’t worked, and our economy’s in a different place than five years ago. Much of this discussion happened before the bottom fell out of the economy, and until it comes back, this isn’t the moment.” Not only that, but his suggestion that we drill from Alberta oil sands actually creates significantly more in the way of greenhouse gases than does producing conventional oil from drilling.