Jon Huntsman on Monday joined a chorus of center-right critics who are questioning the GOP’s reliance on the conservative media establishment, saying the party needed to move beyond “pontificators …who are making millions.”
“If we used all that energy spent on the president’s birth certificate or tax reform or on Afghanistan, we’d be in a much difference place today,” the former Utah governor said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “We do have, you know, some pontifcators in our party, we have a media elite in a sense on the right, they’re making millions and millions of dollars talking about all the incendiary aspects of public policy. We need solutions as opposed to people in search of a larger audience. I don’t know how you go about incentivizing solutions, but that is where the party needs to go.”
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