jon huntsman making it official that he is suspending his campaign. the former utah governor, the former chinese ambassador in the obama administration saying that he will now focus on the trust deficit within this country. i think his website, if we have that, has been sanitized to the point where it promotes now the trust campaign they re going to be working on on jon2012.com. meaning they ve cleaned up all the ads there against mitt romney, because not only has he suspended his campaign, the same breath, same sentence, he has come out in support of mitt romney. i m joined by jeff johnson, richard wolffe is an msnbc political analyst and contributor from washington, d.c. richard, i want to start with you. your reaction to hearing that speech. do you think a lot of people are going to have whiplash after seeing that? he said despite the differences, the gap between
and somebody please tell me i m sleeping this can t possibly be my life. in a crazy, entertaining debate environment, jon huntsman had this look on his face. jon huntsman went out of his way to be neither entertaining nor crazy. also, and i know this is petty but has to be said, jon huntsman had lame campaign signs in new hampshire, three different ones in the granite state. this one where it looks like the halliburton logo. i don t know if that is the halliburton logo that jon huntsman-halliburton, that looks tough. usually this is on a big black background with a big red h, looks manly. the campaign sign you see the most for mr. huntsman is a red one, all the other candidates have various blue signs, they look like different times of blue blazers, jon huntsman has one in a nice red wine color. jon huntsman another sign with his campaign website,
those daughters. when i saw jon huntsman speak on friday when i was up in new hampshire, he ended his discussion with a long personal discussion how much that ad bothered him and how much he loved his daughters and how he and his wife came to adopt them it was very, very effecting. the most emotional thing he did in the campaign appearance. here s the thing, this is kind of amazing. the ron paul campaign says it commissioned a study, an audit, i guess, of where this anti-jon huntsman ad came from, and who has been circulating it. the ron paul campaign says it has looked into where this campaign ad came from and who is circulating it and they think it s jon huntsman. seriously. the quote from story about this. after researching which the available evidence, we believe it s likely the video came from a source within or closely tied to the huntsman campaign. the study they commissioned says the huntsman campaign website
jon 12.com, linked to the video a day before it was picked up. so, is the jon huntsman campaign so nails that they would use this disgusting ad against their own candidate both for the attention and give him the moral high ground? give him a very, very moral high ground way to talk about his own family background? could they have adat themselves? that is what the ron paul campaign appears to be suggesting. the huntsman campaign absolutely denies that. but in the history of campaigns, weirder things have happened. things this outrageous do happen in campaigns. they happen when campaigns are brutally aggressively, tactically ruthlist. the huntsman campaign turned around another attack from mitt romney and the debate on saturday night, they turned that attack around into probably jon huntsman most effective moment in the entire campaign, certainly his single most
jon huntsman another sign with his campaign website, jon2012.com. i follow mr. huntsman s campaign, when i saw a jon 21 sign i didn t know it was for him, i thought it was a ad for a sale at clothing retailer, this is not good. the signs are kind of a sign. up until very recently jon huntsman has not been a bad candidate in theory, but he has been a candidate with a bad campaign. and that may turn out to be a blessing for him. jon huntsman bad campaign has meant he has been so off the radar nobody has bothered to attack him. and now at the exact right moment, if not a little too late, new hampshire voters are taking notice of him and they are taking notice of him at a time that nobody has bothered to trash him. should also be noted that in the last few days, jon huntsman has started running a much better campaign, certainly a much more aggressive campaign.