by Maisie Allison
Michael Brendan Dougherty's profile of Huntsman contradicts the meme:
“There’s a style he has that gets misinterpreted, and that’s a diplomatic style,” says [Greg Hughes, majority whip in Utah’s House of Representatives], “he has reached out to all Utahns, and some people have mistaken his diplomatic approach for being a moderate. If you get to know the guy, his rudder is in the water.” Hughes has a point. For the past two decades a “moderate” Republican was one who generally didn’t side with his party on three issues: taxes, guns and abortion. Huntsman’s record on those isn’t just to the right of other moderates, it is to the right of most conservatives.
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