It Can't be "Empty Words"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., the Republican governor of Utah, seems to not be in the tank with the Limbaughs of the world.



He also said in his Washington Times interview:

"Our moral soapbox was completely taken away from us because of our behavior in the last few years," he said. "For us to now criticize analogous behavior is hypocrisy. We've got to come at it a different way. We've got to prove the point. It can't be as the Chinese would say, 'fei hua,' [or] empty words."

The U.S. needs a healthy, innovative opposition party that is disagrees with the party in power, and can counter it with something new and substantive to offer. Huntsman seems to make some general sense and he seems like he could be constructive. Andrew Sullivan feels he is one to watch. He may have a point.