James Richardson, integrante de la difunta campaña de Huntsman, reflexiona en The Atlantic:
The real problem was that the campaign had been choreographed without the candidate. Aides to the now-defunct Huntsman campaign pledged even before the principal, hoping a robust organization might compel the still-jet lagged ambassador to take the plunge against his former boss.
The grand pageantry and promise of Huntsman's June launch -- staged in the shadow of Lady Liberty, as campaign surrogates were trained to say -- dwarfed the subdued, conciliatory tone the candidate struck.
In truth, the power of personality that once vaulted Obama from primary underdog to president factored greatly into the Huntsman calculus.
The contours of Huntsman's bid were drawn as though he was the Republican counter to Obama. And in the most shallow of senses, he was: In him was a young, telegenic pol sporting the fiscally conservative credentials of Paul Ryan and the globetrotting of Henry Kissinger.
But whereas the president quickened the progressive pulse with saber rattling on Republican union-busting or the dissolution of entitlements, Huntsman refused to likewise rally activists of his party. Some might say he had a clinical aversion to pandering.
Even as Huntsman rose to double digits in opinion surveys, slogging through the endless coffee klatches of the Granite State, his sober diplomacy proved savorless to red meat-hungry GOPers.
All the deeply conservative policy prescriptions Huntsman floated throughout the campaign were camouflaged by his ubiquitous pledges for pragmatism. His unqualified embrace of the Ryan budget, still unmatched today, drew as much attention from primary voters as his jobs proposal, which earned so much praise from legacy conservative outlets.
Huntsman's exit from the nominating contest leaves me without a job, but more pressing it leaves Republicans without a statesman earnestly and pragmatically consumed with fixing what ails America.
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