Never mind my previous nice words about Huntsman - just read this WaPo piece

[elfin]

Looks like anther suckup. Thought he was deeper than that. Perhaps he is. We shall see.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/03/09/daily-202-jon-huntsman-s-strange-odyssey-to-become-donald-trump-s-man-in-moscow/58c0b326e9b69b1406c75d52/?utm_term=.12d1165d3381&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

The Daily 202: Jon Huntsman’s strange odyssey to become Donald Trump’s man in Moscow
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After Trump won, though, Huntsman changed his tune again. As the foreign policy firmament fretted about Trump’s phone conversation with the leader of Taiwan, Huntsman surprised many of his old friends by rushing to the president-elect’s defense on Fox News and in the New York Times. He described the move as “shrewd.” It could be a “useful leverage point,” he said. “Having lived in Taiwan twice and having lived in China once, there's a little too much hyperventilating about this one,” Huntsman said on Fox.

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-- It’s unclear what strings he might have pulled behind the scenes, but Huntsman was soon floated by transition officials as a potential dark-horse pick for secretary of state. When he got passed over for Rex Tillerson, he stayed in the mix to become deputy secretary of state. Now he’s settled for another foreign posting.

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The whole Huntsman family has been part of the charm offensive:

Mary Anne, one of the ambassador's daughters, played piano at the White House yesterday:

Abby Huntsman, a co-host of "Fox & Friends Weekend," conducted a softball interview with Sean Spicer last week:

[delisen]

1. Aargh. Have I been taken In Once Again. No longer even one honorable Republican?

Possibly inherited wealth need to be taxed at 100%. It is preventing the children of the rich to compete on the level playing field of life. Instead of the cream rising to the top we are getting some sort of oily substance gumming up our lives.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. You are seeing the real

Jon Huntsman. Remember,this is the Heir to the Huntsman Chemical Company.

[HipChick]

2. I thought at one time Abby Huntsman was on MSNBC..

[old guy]

4. Anyone accepting an appointment to the tRump admin should forever be viewed

with scorn and derision. No self respecting honest person would go anywhere near this chaos.

[WhiteTara]

5. Anyone who would work with Drumpf is truly

lower than low. Weasel.

[defacto7]

6. It's all become too surreal to digest...

I guess I have to eat my words as well. He was the last Republican with integrity from my "personal" experience. I guess that tie has to be cut.
Respectible Republicans really do not exist in politics period. They and anything right of Gandhi are dead to me now.