August 22, 2011 05:05 AM UTC

Jon Huntsman's Appeal to Reason

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• by: Colorado Pols

ABC News reports:

In an exclusive interview on “This Week,” Huntsman said “there’s a serious problem” with comments made by Perry in New Hampshire last week calling man-made global warming “a scientific theory that has not been proven and from my perspective is more and more being put into question” while claiming scientists have “manipulated data” on the issue.

“The minute that the Republican Party becomes the party — the anti-science party, we have a huge problem,” Huntsman told ABC News Senior White House correspondent Jake Tapper. “We lose a whole lot of people who would otherwise allow us to win the election in 2012.”

“When we take a position that isn’t willing to embrace evolution, when we take a position that basically runs counter to what 98 of 100 climate scientists have said … about what is causing climate change and man’s contribution to it, I think we find ourselves on the wrong side of science, and, therefore, in a losing position,” Huntsman added.

We know how most of you feel about this. But we also know how the average GOP primary voter will feel. And that sums up pretty well the gulf between the formidable presidential candidate former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman could be…and the also-ran GOP primary candidate he is.