Jason Miks talks to Huntsman’s chief foreign policy adviser, Randy Schriver:

Moving closer to the election, he [Schriver] argued that it will become clear “that President Obama has a different vision for the United States in the world, and essentially sees his task as managing our decline.”

It’s statements such as this that blow apart one of the main conceits of the Huntsman campaign, which is that Huntsman is not a panderer. When the foreign policy adviser of the supposed realist in the 2012 GOP field rattles off a talking point that could be lifted from a Charles Krauthammer article, I find it hard to identify where Huntsman and his campaign substantially differ from his demagogic rivals. Schriver dutifully says that Huntsman “outclasses the field” on foreign policy, but Huntsman has gone out of his way to undermine and sabotage that claim.