New Video Reveals Jon Huntsman's Surprisingly Reasonable Record On Key Issues

My colleague Travis Waldron compiled a pretty comprehensive report on former Utah Governor John Huntsman's secret life as a progressive but for those who prefer to get their political information in video form, the basic point has now hit YouTube in the form of a mock ad:

The sad thing about this is that joking aside, everything Huntsman says in the video—we should tax carbon emissions, we should use fiscal stimulus in a deep recession, we should have a universal health care system—is in fact perfectly consistent with conservative politics. There's no country besides the United States where conservative politicians don't believe in universal health care. Ask Stephen Harper, ask David Cameron—everyone's getting health care. And while the American right isn't totally alone in its spider hole of climate change denialism it's pretty damn isolated. I'm old enough to remember back to 2008 when not only Huntsman but also Tim Pawlenty, John McCain, Sarah Palin, new that we needed carbon pricing.