Not only is Jon Huntsman’s latest attack ad on Ron Paul pretty pitch-perfect, it also comes at a great time. After watching the annual New Year’s 48-hour “Twilight Zone” marathon on the SciFi network, Ron Paul’s creepy conspiracy theories and crackpot foreign policy sound exactly like something the horror genius Rod Serling would concoct to terrify us.
Only one gripe: how could Huntsman’s team have left out this classic clip from the Reagan debate over the summer?
As the rest of the GOP field focuses on Iowa, Huntsman’s been stumping in New Hampshire, and in the latest Suffolk University survey he ties Newt Gingrich for third place, with Ron Paul in second. Huntsman currently has the state to himself, and there’s no reason to think he can’t edge out Gingrich in the quickly-approaching primary. More videos like this one can’t hurt.
That advert is so dumb. It makes no sense at all. It's just a bunch of out of context quotes. If you actually watch the clips that they are cut out from they make perfect sense. Jon Huntsman is a backstabbing wimp for making this trash.
At one time, it would have been a conspiracy theory to say that the government would vote to repeal our right to be free from unwarranted searches. It might have been conspiracy theory to say that the president could assassinate an American citizen if he decided he was a terrorist. It might have been a conspiracy theory to say that the government could authorize the military to detain indefinitely American citizens without charges or trial. In the 2000's, one who said that mortgage derivatives were going to cause a financial crisis might be considered a conspiracy theorist. nJust sayin'….
Is this supposed to be an attack? People have no sense of history. Capital controls and travel restrictions have happened in the last century in Nazi Germany, the USSR and its satellites, China, North Korea, and last but not least, the USA when FDR seized the physical gold holdings of private citizens during the Great Depression. There is no reason to believe capital and border controls won't happen again. A giant wall to the south, the TSA, the the DHS could make implementation a snap. As ambassador to a country with such controls, i.e. China, Huntsman makes himself look the fool for trying to impugn Ron Paul for these statements.