His biggest applause line: “The question the voters want us to answer will be who will be the better president, not who’s the better American.”…

“You don’t have to run down someone’s reputation” to run for president, he said. It’s a standard of which Obama fell well short, and one any political staff will struggle to meet…

“This whole campaign’s going to be mellow,” said Huntsman adviser John Weaver, who conceded that that wasn’t entirely in character for Weaver or the rest of Huntsman’s staff, who would make mellow “a goal.”