Why? He sounds effeminate, is so civil that he acts like politics is not the rough sport that it is, and (I think) looks a little weird. OK, so he speaks Chinese. Applause, applause. No, maybe just one clap, not two.
Huntsman is what you call a cool operator with a “deadly” CEO knack for getting things done. His record of accomplishment and vast experience in both governance and foreign policy must speak volumes for someone who doesn’t know how to do politics.
Personally I couldn’t care less if the man were deaf, mute and blind as long as he knows his stuff - AND how to create jobs.
Here’s a segment from Katrina Trinko’s op-ed at the National Review, “Which GOP Candidate Has the Best Job-Growth Record?“:
“During Huntsman’s tenure, January 2005 to August 2009, Utah had the best overall job-growth rate of any state in the nation. In that same time frame, Perry’s job-growth rate was 4.9 percent. Pawlenty’s job-growth rate was negative: The number of jobs in Minnesota decreased by 1.8 percent.”
Huntsman has been too long in a very non-expressive culture.
He needs to lose the reserve, and be more like Donald Trump.
That will be difficult for him to do. Just as one experiences culture shock going someplace very different - the exact opposite happens returning.
Huntsman seems to still be in that process. He needs to lose that reserve, NOW.
If he does, he could be very good for America, and the GOP.