I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there is something off about Huntsman’s persona - at least to me and DH.
We worked for a few minutes to try to define exactly what it is, and the best words we could come up with are:
unctuous, supercilious, very impressed with himself, but modest about it, glib, hypocritical, perhaps “Pecksniffian” (O’Reilly taught me that word).
At any rate, he carries his career in diplomacy as if it were a badge of superior comprehension, above us mere mortals. I hate diplomatic double-speak, and would always feel a great need to parce his words even more carefully than dear ol’ Bill Clinton’s.
sorry, misspelled “parce”. I think it is properly spelled “parse”.
He said something in the first debate that makes him a no to the H degree. Personally, he creeps me out.