Jon Huntsman: Mitt Romney should withdraw Richard Mourdock endorsement

10/25/2012 Jon Huntsman, former Utah governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate, said on Thursday that Mitt Romney showed a lack of leadership with his response to Indiana GOP Senate nominee Richard Mourdock's controversial comments on rape and abortion. Romney has refused to withdraw his endorsement of Mourdock and declined to have the campaign ad he filmed for him pulled from TV. " I simply would have said I'm withdrawing my support," Huntsman said in an interview with HuffPost Live. "Until proves otherwise, either you lay out an apology, do something else, but as of right now I would withdraw support." Asked by The Huffington Post's Howard Fineman if he would have had the ad taken off air, Huntsman responded, "I would do exactly that." "I'm here to tell you that there are some independents and swing voters in the middle that I think would respect a candidate who goes against the grain," Huntsman continued. "They're looking for leadership during a time that these kinds of statements are made, as opposed to just the go-with-the-flow kinds of statements we always hear." -- More (including VIDEO interview with Huntsman):

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• Huntsman seems like one of the few Republicans with some integrity and sense. He is more moderate, right?

• He's a moderate by Utah mormon standards. Going after Romney lends me to believe Huntsman is a closet Obama supporter.

• I think the Huntsman family endorsed the Democrat who is running against Republican Mia Love in Utah.