...I noticed he was singing from the same page as the rest of the GOP choir. Very disappointing, because initial news stories suggested he would take the high road. But the more I hear from him, the less I think he has anything to distinguish himself from the rest. See below.

http://jon2012.com/campaign/Aug-12-2011/Go...

Governor Jon Huntsman today issued the following statement on the recent ruling on ObamaCare by the Appeals Court of the 11th Circuit:

"The individual mandate included in ObamaCare is an unconstitutional assault on the individual liberty of the American people, and I support today's ruling by the Appeals Court of the 11th Circuit.

"When I was Governor of Utah, I signed free-market healthcare reforms designed to help small businesses and individuals, rather than burden them with mandates, fines and massive bureaucracies.

"As President, I will repeal ObamaCare and put an end to the economic uncertainty that it has created."


There is no such thing as "ObamaCare." That's just a term employed by the kvetching, whingeing, whining, sneering pundits and pols and others who apparently don't care that the U.S. has an overly expensive health care system that makes billionaires of CEOs while impoverishing and sometimes killing people. It's pretty hard to enjoy liberty (or, to state the obvious, life) without access to medical care.

And spare me the "free market" spiel. The free market has no morality, and it doesn't care if you or a loved one are bankrupted due to medical bills or dropped by your insurer during chemotherapy or far, far worse.

As for the promise of repeal, I'd remind Huntsman that spite is not a policy position. It's a character flaw.

Mind you, there is no way he could be as singularly unpleasant as Newt Gingrich or Michele Bachmann, but few people can manage that.