[Posted by Karl] Jon Huntsman, who claimed third place in New Hampshire was a “ticket to ride” to South Carolina, has figured out we don’t care . The former Utah governor will drop out of the GOP nomination campaign and plans to endorse frontrunner Mitt Romney later this morning. His campaign YouTube page has been purged of anti-Romney videos. His anti-Romney websites now redirect to Yahoo. You know who this benefits , but the benefit has to be marginal. Team Obama used Huntsman’s withdrawal to take a shot at Romney, which is even more marginal. The establishment line developing on Twitter is that conservatives never forgave Huntsman for being Obama’s ambassador to China. I’ll stick with what I wrote in December — Huntsman blew it by running as the Maverick Who Insults Conservatives when his record was arguably more conservative than Romney and Newt Gingrich. Indeed, he was the anti-Gingrich: his substance was more conservative than his image and he insulted all the wrong targets. And unlike Rick Perry, he insulted the wrong people intentionally. That approach has John Weaver written all over it, but Huntsman was dumb enough to think it was smart. Thus, Huntsman exits the stage, perhaps hoping for a cabinet post in a Romney administration, probably having to explain to the press why a “perfectly lubricated weather vane” is exactly what America needs in 2012. –Karl
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Jon Huntsman: I think it’s today, yeah.
