“This is language that’s suitable for the Republican primary, plain and simple. This isn’t the language that’s good for all Americans and that gets us closer to solving the problem,” Hunstman said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

Huntsman, who is an honorary co-chairman of the bipartisan group No Labels, said Paul’s remarks illustrate why it’s time for politicians to move past petty politics.

“It’s about politics, and that is the broader issue that we’re all about here with No Labels, and that is in this long streak of pessimism this country has faced, the longest in our nation’s history, what are we going to do to come together — Republicans, Democrats, independents — and start finding solutions? Not words, not sound bites, not finger pointing, acrimony and anger, but actually finding solutions,” Huntsman said.