Jon Huntsmen 2020

[Citizen Hats]

Jon Huntsman spent most of his campaign in 2012 insulting the sort of people he needed to vote for him.  He could have sold his record to those people rather credibly. It's not like Utah was some sort of spendthrift state when he was in office, and in that respect he was arguably the 'severe conservative'.

But, instead of talking about things that matter to republican primary voters, he called them all stupid