Add Jon Huntsman to the list of Mitt Romney endorsers saying 'meh'

Jon Huntsman with someone he was once more enthusiastic about
than he's ever been about Mitt Romney. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
Boy, can any of Mitt Romney's prominent Republican endorsers conceal their distaste for him for longer than it takes to issue their endorsement statement? The string of "Meh" endorsements goes from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, with Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels adding himself recently. Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, who endorsed Romney after dropping out of the presidential race himself, also sounded a distinctly "meh" note at a speech at Harvard's Kennedy School this week.

After apparently peppering his speech with laments over the lack of Republican leadership ("Boldness is thrown out the window" and  "Courage is not on display" and "Here you are during a time of the great crisis for this nation ... and you say, this is all this great country can offer up?") Huntsman was asked directly about Romney, who he had not to that point named.

"I think Romney will show leadership on the economy," Huntsman said. "But on the trust deficit, I don't see a whole lot of leadership."

If it was just Huntsman, you'd say, "Romney should thank his lucky stars no one outside the Huntsman family will be voting based on what Jon Huntsman thinks." But at this point, Romney probably has more endorsers undermining him, with varying degrees of subtlety, than singing his praise.