Jake Tapper of "ABC News This Week" started off his interview with Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman by quoting Tim Pawlenty: “‘What I brought forward I thought was a rational, established, credible, strong record of results, based on experience governing, a two-term governor of a blue state, but I think the audience, so to speak, was looking for something different.’ Isn't Governor Pawlenty describing the same problem you're having on the campaign trail right now?”
Jon Huntsman was making his debut on a Sunday news show during a week when the full-time host, the president, and Congress were on vacation.
After a week when most major news outlets had played Rick Perry’s sound bites about the treasonous Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, the questionable theory of evolution, and the uncertain causes of climate change, Huntsman was able to elbow his way into the ambient light of the media spotlight, not with a bold ill-considered remark but with a tweet.
“To be clear, I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”
Interview Transcript | Link to Full Interview
Huntsman's Views On:
Perry’s Scientific Views:
“I think there's a serious problem. The minute that the Republican Party becomes the party -- the anti-science party, we have a huge problem. We lose a whole lot of people that would otherwise allow us to win the election in 2012.
Perry’s Bernanke Treason Statement:
“And every time we have these sideshows take place, finger-pointing and name-calling, it takes us that much further off the ball, which is fixing our core in this country, is getting our economy fixed and creating jobs.”
Michele Bachmann’s Promise of Gas Under $2.00 a Gallon:
“You know, I just -- I just don't know what -- what world that comment would come from, you know? We live in the real world. It's grounded in reality. And gas prices just aren't going to rebound like that.”
Republican Candidates' Refusal of Debt Ceiling Deal:
“You can imagine -- even given the uncertainty of the marketplace the last several days and even the last couple of weeks -- if we had defaulted, the first time in the history of the greatest country that ever was, being 25 percent of the world's GDP and having the largest financial services sector in this world by a long shot, if we had defaulted, Jake, this marketplace would be in absolute turmoil. And people who are already losing enough as it is on their 401(k)s and retirement programs and home valuations, it would have been catastrophic.”
The Media:
Tapper asked why he had raised his hand, along with all the other Republican candidates in response to Bret Baier’s Iowa debate question about refusing to raise even $1 of taxes for $10 of spending cuts.
“Well, I'm just sorry that the debate resorted to a raising of hand as opposed to some discussion about where this country needs to go in terms of overall tax policy.”
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