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Jon Huntsman for President

"Weather Vane" +
  1:31 web video from Oct. 31, 2011.

John King: Is the Massachusetts approach that was passed under Governor Romney, is that a good model for the nation?

Romney: Well, I think so.

Romney: In the last campaign, I was asked, is this something you would have the whole nation do? I said no.

Romney: I think there is need for economic stimulus.

Romney: I have never supported the President’s recovery act all right, the stimulus.

Romney: I do not support and have never supported a timed withdrawal.

Anchor: Do you believe there should be a timetable in withdrawing the troops?

Romney: Well, there’s no question but that the President and Prime Minister al-Maliki have to have a series of timetables and milestones.

Romney: But I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer and number two I believe that humans contribute to that.

Romney: We don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet.

Romney: I’m very much, very much and adamantly opposed to tax increases.

Tim Russert: The head of the Bay State Council of the Blind said that your name was “fee fee”. That you just raised fee after fee after fee – that’s a tax.

TEXT: Leadership you can depend on.

Huntsman: You can’t be a perfectly lubricated weather vane on the important issues of the day—whether it’s Libya, whether it’s the debt ceiling, whether it’s the discussion around the Kasich bill in Ohio—where Governor Romney has been missing in action in terms of showing any kind of leadership.


Notes: Although the monkey toy may be a new wrinkle, it's too easy to do this kind of stuff, it's been done before, and it doesn't really advance the Huntsman campaign.  According to the press release, the video "displays Mitt Romney’s inability to stay consistent on key issues."

“While Mitt Romney has been doing backflips on every issue from abortion to the individual mandate, Governor Huntsman has been consistent on where he stands,” said Huntsman campaign spokesman Tim Miller. “Leadership is not flipping back and forth on issues for your own political advantage. Real leadership is taking a clear position on issues even if it comes at political risk. Backflipping is for toys and gymnasts, not presidents.”