Huntsman: I’ll Make No Pledges

Perhaps smarting from the moment in the last debate when he raised his hand with all the other candidates to take a pledge that he would raise no taxes, Jon Huntsman backed away this time. He told the debate moderators that pledges “diminish the political discourse” and he would take no more of them. “I have a pledge to my wife, and I have a pledge to my country,” he said. And that’s that.