Re: Sounds like he's running a general election campaign.
That seems to be the general thinking. But I really like what Huntsman is doing. He was completely out of sight until now. He has stepped up for all the moderate intellectual republicans who are appalled by the Tea Party madness.
This could be important to the very future of the GOP. Running a public campaign against all the nuts could be the beginning of the crack in the Tea Party/GOP alliance. The Tea Party will either break off on its own or get kicked out.