Huntsman not attacking ? Seriously ?
This was from the Hugh Hewitt show Saturday, and he was just getting started.
JH: The market’s telling me that there’s zero confidence in this country of ours. The President has had two and a half years to get it right. He’s had two and a half years to infuse a sense of confidence in our direction as a sense of predictability for small business and entrepreneurs and innovators. He has failed in that task. And here we sit, the market’s collapsing. We desperately need competitive tax reform, desperately need to get the regulatory monkey off our back, and desperately need to start doing things like moving toward energy independence. None of that has been done. The bully pulpit hasn’t been used, and here we sit, paying the consequences. And it’s a high price for we as Americans to be paying.
A fiery Jon Huntsman took the stage at Rep. Tim Scott’s first GOP town hall in Charleston, S.C., today, practically shouting his stump speech to the crowd of 200 people.
The event culminated with a rather unique rendition of “Hit the Road Jack.” Scott and former South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster sang at the microphone while Huntsman took to the keys. The song, Scott told the crowd, was dedicated to President Obama.
“Pathetic, given where we are, the greatest nation on earth in that kind of slump,” Huntsman said to the first-in-the-south audience. “I don’t know about you but the president has had two and a half years to address the most pressing problem we as Americans face, infusing confidence in our overall direction and dealing with job growth and getting our economy going again and he has failed. He has failed the American people on the most important issue of our time.”
Huntsman was filled with emotion as he reflected on the weekend’s difficult events.
“Yesterday I turned on the news and I heard about the downgrade to AA+,” Huntsman said. “And I heard about those men in Afghanistan and my heart cried. And I thought those moms and dads who raise up those kids to do great things, encourage them to go put on the uniform for the country, they want the very best out of them. We give this our all ladies and gentlemen. Service to country. We’re patriotic people. This, where we find ourselves today, is an un-American place to be.”
First, check the date of this article and second, I am willing to bet that his “speech” was delivered with the passion of a wet rag.